When to Guitar Center today, in Pro Audio they said they got an email Guitar Center HQ stating the MPC's are in Guitar Center's warehouse in Washington. They are shipping now, and they will be most likely in available in US stores around Monday....It's funny while I was in there the intercom store pager had about 4 "MPC Question for Pro Audio". The guys said they get about 20 calls a day. What's interesting was they said they had about the same interest in Roland's super wack bite box the MV-8000, but once it got in the store they haven't sold one. Serves Roland right for super jockin'