My New MPC1000 is Rock'n

I've just converted over from Ableton to Using the MPC1000 for Live performances. It's Great!!!
And thanks to this forum ... and the manual, I leant how to use it with minimal headache!
Thanks all.

A Gig of Ram would be great this little machine

little yet so large :p

Thats funny you came from Live to the mpc1k, b/c i just got live 5, and i love it. This program is so sick, and was exactly what I was looking for performing. I main program of choice was Acid 5, but now it seems to Live, and I too also own a 1k. So now my live performance setup consists of my laptop running Live 5, Reason 2.5, kaoss pad2, radium 61, mpc1k. I still own hardware and enjoy it, but do not want to bring some of it out for performing (ASR 10, Emu mk-6). Well I hope you keep enjoying 1k its a really cool piece of gear.

Yeh Metafor. I hear ya!
Ableton is an awsome bit of software. I was using it as a sequencer in our 5 piece outfit, but my G4 is the old titanium powerbook and was glitching every now and then. I'll get another lappy down the track but wanted to try somthing new so I purchased the 1K,
Has a bit more freedom with the band, and stable as.....
and I will enjoy it
thanks

Ableton is definitely awesome, i use it to record and re-arrange tracks i started on the mpc. For live performing, i went the direction pc-->mpc, because i started thinking:: man these laptops aren't really designed right for being musical instruments, i need to get a laptop that is really sturdy, um , has big drum pads instead of a useless keyboard, doesn't need to boot up off a harddrive, um , has a small screen that doesn't get between me and the audience.... then once i looked around i realized the mpc is a lot closer to that than a laptop .

But in the future what somebody needs to do is put a laptop in an mpc chassis, and make it boot up instantly off flash memory (by having some kind of saved ram state or something). That'd be the ultimate in my books..

the 4k is the closes with an intel processor powering it.

My main reason for buying the 1K is pretty much the same. I can't seem to justify the cost of buying a laptop when they're fragile, unpredictable, and become obsolete to the point where the resale value is non-existant. Aside of that, my eyes are really sensitive and I cant work long on a PC without dealing with all the eyestrain. I've used the MPC 2K in the past when working with a friend and always had more fun using an MPC than a computer cuz I prefer the hands-on approach instead of a mouse. Occasionally I'll use software in production, but not for sequencing anymore. Using Reason and V-STack with some VST instruments and effects to supplement my exising hardware setup as a sound module is far more efficient on my CPU resources than to run it all in Cubase. But mainly, I use my DAW for chopping loops in ReCycle, and Wavelab for editing/processing samples, recording and post production. Then there's the hardware editors that are essential to me like Blue Box for the 1K, the Evolver Wave Dump utility, the Yamaha DX200 editor, Elektron C6 for my Sidstation, and so on. The less I can use my computer for production, the happier I am (with the exception of what I mentioned above).