Compatible keyboards

i was told by some that thereare keyboards that are not compatible with the mpc 2000xl. if you guys know of any post it, aslo post the ones you know that works. peace and love

Science wrote:i was told by some that thereare keyboards that are not compatible with the mpc 2000xl. if you guys know of any post it, aslo post the ones you know that works. peace and love

Keyboards without MIDI perhaps.....

Like Boogie said. Any keyboard that has Midi inputs and outputs will be fine.
Everything else is a matter of taste and budget.

Some recommendations:

High end: Triton - Motif - Fantom - Kurzweil 2600(?)

Low end: Used Korg M1-T3 or Trinity, Roland XP10 or XP30, Alesis (?) Just run through eBay look at what's on sale. read up on it there and do some searchs at www.synthzone.com and www.harmonycentral.com

Peace and good luck.

i was wondering because, somone told me that the fantom will not work with the mpc 2000xl.

The Fantom has Midi in and out as far as I know. I don't know what your people meant by "work," though. I can't remember if it is a multi-timbral instrument or not. and that would just affect whether you can have multiple sounds on various channels playing on it at once. Other than that, I'm sure it will work.

Peace.

yeah fam, thats what he said, that some boards are not multitimberal. i should have made a clear desciption.

^^ Word. Midi is Midi is Midi. As long as the keyboard is midi compatable, it will "work" with the MPC.

My bad, we posted at the same time. I have a habit of doing that...

What up Science. I know you've been havin' trouble getting your PSR 2000 working with your MPC but I think I figured out how solve your problem, sell it for 800.00 to 900.00(that's what they're going for on eBay) and get an old Motif(these are going for 900.00-1000.00) or a Fantom S, Homershines suggestion of a XP30 was a good one, that combo isn't bad at all(Rocwilder used to make beats with the XP60 and an MPC) you'll be very happy with that setup compared to the headache you're getting with the PSR. Also, I don't know who told you that the Fantom won't work with the MPC, I had the FX6 workin' fine with the MPC for the week that I had it(I took it back and got the Triton Extreme instead).

^^What did you not like about the Fantom X? Im about to sell all my gear and cop one (or an S), so i'm interested in your opinion of it...

It was real cool. The sequencer was easy to use, it was easy to get a quick groove going, the sounds were cool, shit, I REALLY liked the board. The one thing about the board that really didn't work with me is the file architecture when it comes to saving and loading samples. Now for most folks who own a MPC this is irrelevent cuz they do all the sample programming on the MPC which I also do 90% of the time but a lot of times if I'm sitting in front of ALL of my equipment I get creative blocks for some reason so to get out of that I like to take just one piece of gear with me to my bedroom (or the bathroom) and start workin'. I did some research before I bought the Fantom to make sure it was capable of doing certain things I would need from an "all-in-one" machine, mostly cuz the MPC has me spoiled. I checked to make sure you could audition samples BEFORE loading them(like the MPC), I was told you could, you can't. I checked to see how the save/load features worked with the Fantom, I was told you just save all the samples and the sequence(this is called S+S), it don't work like that, you can load all samples but that means ALL samples, not just the ones you used for that song not to mention a couple of other annoying steps that need to be taken. Bottom line, there is no convinient way to load up sequnces that are sample heavy.

The Triton on the other hand is much easier to work with samples as a stand alone unit and the file architecture is real easy to understand and work with. The sequencer isn't as easy to work with as th FX but there are more insert efx. Also, you can audition samples before loading them, real important for us MPC users with tons of drum samples with similar names.

It all really comes down to how you like to work, my brain just happens to understand the language the Triton speaks better than the FX, that's not to say that one is better than the other, they are both great workstations.

Thanks, that was pretty in-depth. I didn't know that you cant audition samples with the Fantom. That kinda sucks. I've messed with the Triton before (the Classic); its dope, but I just think that the sounds in the Fantom are better (although I havent heard the what the Triton Extreme has to offer yet). I really need to spend some time with the Fantom before I commit... I guess i'll have to hit up ol' Guitar Center.

Oh yeah, one other thing. How are the pads on the X. I hate the feel of the pads on the S, but i've heard that roland "improved" the feel of them for the X. Do they come anywhere near the MPC?

Thanks again.

They're definitely improved over the S but still nowhere near the MPC but even the MPD16 pads wern't as good a s the MPC pads, the FX pads aren't bad at all though.

Cool. As long as they're better than the pads on the S, im straight...

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