thinking about trading my mpc2000xl for a 1000

ok...so im new. i've spent the last hour reading up on what i could on the 1000. seems like a pretty popular sampler nowadays. I used to use the 2000xl which i still have tucked away somewhere in my garage along with a 16 track recorder.

i stopped making music for 2 years but i've suddenly had the urge to delve back into it, but i dont really want to put my little makeshift studio back together or dedicate too much time to it. i just want something to mess around with that i could easily use with my computer (i.e. - make a full beat and then just either record live or dump a track into whatever music program i might have on my pc).

i went to guitar center and sam ash to look at it. is there any difference from the black 1000 and the blue and red one that came out a few years ago? anyway guitar center didnt have the 1000 on display so i was messing with the 500 and seems pretty neat, but i think i rather go with the 1000 because of the screen and it just seems more official. anyway the guys at the store usually dont know anything about samplers they are always pushing the software and all that, so that trip was pretty much useless.

so basically i have some questions. sorry about this whole story. i just want to know can the 1000 pretty much do everything the 2000xl did? or is it better?

i read some of the topics about recording onto pc using usb, but the answers didnt clear up too much. so can you actually record directly to a pc program using usb? the guy at the store said no but he seemed really clueless and unsure.

also i pretty much knew the 2000xl inside and out...which makes me familiar to other mpcs but now i see something about a JJ OS? would it be like learning the mpc all over again or is it more of the same with a few extra features?

if these are redundant questions i apologize...if you could answer or link me to where i could find the answers i appreciate it...thanks.

four eyes wrote:can the 1000 pretty much do everything the 2000xl did? or is it better?

so can you actually record directly to a pc program using usb?

would it be like learning the mpc all over again or is it more of the same with a few extra features?

Yes, the 1000 can do everything the xl does and then some. And many of the 1000's functions are done way faster than the xl such as time-stretch.

No, not that I am aware of. You'd have to dump or export into your computer program. I think I answered that correctly.

The JJOS is an operating system that is based on the AKAI OS. It' has extra features but it's not like learning all over again.

Let me welcome you to the forums. And let me also be the first to let you know that all of your questions and more can be answered by searching this site. There are already threads discussing the very questions you have asked here. Just dive right in. Answers about the black vs the blue/red 1000 and the JJ OS and anything you could imagine regarding the 1000 is here. Just look for it. You have been warned. If you recieve sarcastic and smart-assed answers to your questions in the future, please don't say that I never warned you.

Also, do you wanna sell your xl? I have someone who may be interested. Hit the PM. Holla!

ya man....thanks for the reply. and i'll check the other threads for more info indeed. just wanted like a quick basic idea of what im dealing with.

I'm new myself, but from what i understand the JJ OS makes the 1000 more powerful than it was originally.

The latest JJ OS2 makes the 1000 a 2500, from what I hear.

I love my 1000 and once I get some sounds that i like in it I am going to be banging out the beats. Right now I'm just practicing with the stock sounds and some of the other sounds that was loaded on it.

The big difference is in the pads.

The Red & Blue has the old faulty pads and from what I hear they will fail. I have the Red & Blue one and I want to get the new pads but they are on back order, though the pads I have now work just fine.

Good luck with your search, man and welcome to the forums.