Advice needed: Midi Controlling an MPC 1000

Hi all,

I am seriously thinking about buying an MPC 1000 but before I do I need to be sure it can do what I need it to in a live situation.

Live, I want to store samples on the 1000 and be able to trigger them as you normally would with the pads. In addition to this I want to be able to:

1. plug in a drum pad midi controller so that our drummer can also control the MPC
2. plug in a foot controller for myself so that I can control the MPC whilst playing guitar

I realise that the 1000 has 2 Midi In's so in theory I can't see a problem with this set up but as I haven't had the chance to try it out I thought I would ask you all for your advice. Is this likely to work? Has anyone ever done similar things and found they ran in to problems?

Eso Mysterio wrote:Is this likely to work?

Oh yeah baby. I have done it for years with my Yamaha DXII.

midi inputs only control the active track unless you're running jjos2xl, which is multitimbral.
if you're only gonna be using 1 pgm at a time, any OS will do
if multiple people/controllers will be using multiple pgms, you'll need jjos2xl (probably need it anyway)

hi

so in order to control the mpc mixer with an external midi controller I will need to get the JJOS2?

thanks

os2xl, yes