1000 w/HD VS. 2000xl mcd

I'm semi-familiar with MPC's. I've worked on friends and have a good knowlege of overall production hardware and software. I've been researching around the clock on the differences between all the models. I've now come down to 2 listings i've found online, one is for an mpc 1000 with a 120gb hard drive in it, and a 2000xl mcd. The 2000 is gonna run me $50 more than the 1000. After looking at all the auctions and craigslist ads, I wasn't even considering the 1000, i wanted a 2000xl w/ the flash reader, but now i'm really swayed by the idea of a large hard drive that will provide the luxury of not having to bounce data back and forth. So now I've come to the forums because i'm wondering if there's some major difference i've over looked that would sway me back to the 2000xl. Thank you in advance for your help.

well I would say the 1000 is a better buy... it is newer, it has more features, more ram, the option of getting the JJOS (alternate operating system that adds a crap load of features)... the downside is smaller pads, no tilt screen, slightly less quality in the build. I would suggest checking around here for details on identifying if the pad fix ("upgrade") has been done on that 1000 though.... some of the earlier models had the first generation mpc1000 pad design which wound up being a terrible move by akai because they screwed up over time. From my understanding the issue was on the red and blue models but I heard that some black models had the problem also.

I read that one way to tell was if you moved the pad rubber around (side to side) if it was the new pad design neighboring pads would move a bit too because the rubber is all one piece for all 16 pads VS the old design of each pad having their own rubber piece. Dont quote me on that because that is just what I remember hearing.

good luck....


also if you wind up with an older pad design... once they screw up it will cost about 200 bucks to fix.

Don't fool yourself over just a large drive. A large drive will let you accumulate more samples, but also more shoddy samples. It's good to purge the junk often.

There are plenty of good arguments to go either way... but you're going to have a very hard time loading 120gb of solid gold samples. If you can do that you're better off selling libraries than making beats anyways .

yeah, the hard drive on the 1000 isn't that necessary. you have a 2gig flash card and the usb connection. with that you can very easily drag and drop large amounts of samples to and from your computer.

the 1000 has great features - i pretty much use it a multitrack all-in-one production studio. but if you don't need all that, then the 2000 might be the go.

one might suit your needs better thn another. but whichever you get, you'll love it.