Which One Do I Pick

I don't even have an MPC of any model yet. I'm primarily a keyboard and guitar player, but the drum sounds on my Triton are wack and I need to have an external sequncer to use more of the sounds off of the keyboard to give my songs that rich layered texture plus have something to put some dope drums under the chord melodies. I don't know which way to go though. I was considering buying the 1000 but I didn't know if that would limit me any, I've always heard that the 2000 was the MPC of choice, and I was checking out Ebay to see if I could catch one for the low and then they showed up with the 2500 joint. I don't wanna spend any unecessary money if I'm not gonna be losing anything and at the same time, if I'm gonna be gaining something that one of the other models doesn't have, I'll spend that extra dough. I just need someone to point me in the right direction. I gotta have something midi that'll let me move all of the stuff from my Triton to the MPC, plus I gotta have dope drums. Any suggestions... Should I even be tryna invest in an MPC, are they simple to use... I'm not a sample based producer so I don't even know where to start with that, but that's something that I plan on working on, I just gotta figure out which MPC to buy first. Peace

Georgia Brown

If your solely gonna be using it to make your drum tracks on I'd say that the 1000 is prob all your gonna need. Just to be clear, did you mean you intend to sequence your triton sounds on your triton the bring in an mpc for your drums and sequence the drums on the mpc seporately?

MIDI, which is available on all MPC models (hence MIDI PRODUCTION CENTER), won't "move your samples". All MIDI means, really, is that your MPC will be a remote control for your Triton sounds. It will allow you to place the notes where you want them, but the notes themselves will still be coming out of your Triton.

Unless you mean sampling the actual Triton sounds into the MPC, which is a whole different thread.

You haven't really made clear what it is you want from an MPC. If you only want a sequencer, any of them will do the job. If you want a sequencer plus a drum module, again, they all will do the job, with subtle differences.

Honestly, you're a musician, so you can make any of the boxes make any of the sound you want them to, with some lateral problem-solving, common sense, and creativity.

Explore your sound your own way.

Well with the Triton, once you use a combi sound out of the combi bank you automatically eat up 8 tracks out of the 16 you have to work with. What I wanted to do is use an MPC as an external sequencer. Use a combi sound and move it to the MPC, then find another that I want to use for the same song and move it over to the MPC, and so on and so forth so I don't eat up all of the tracks that are available for sequencing on the Triton. Then afterwards I could arrange those tracks on the MPC and then work the drums. I don't wanna sample the sounds, I just want to move them so I won't eat up track space.

And with all of the drum kits that come out for the MPC, I'd have more options and creativity with what I'm doing instead of being limited to what I have in my Triton. It's a nice keyboard, but sometimes you need a little more to motivate you. I'd hate to have a song that I think is dope just for someone to tell me that the drums are wack. In the end I'd like the finish product of what I'm doing to come out of the MPC only since everything is gonna be arranged on there anyway. I messed around with computer sequencers when I first got started. I was using cakewalk and I liked the sequencing and arrangement options, but outside of that, I didn't have the drums I wanted. I hate computer based programs, I'd rather have the hands on gear so I can twist knobs. I'm just trying to figure out what the best model MPC is for what I'm trying to do.