Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
By ndowney Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:40 am
My co-worker is a very skilled woodworker and made some wooden panels for me. He is going to make me another set that cover the whole side of the 4000. I will post some pics tomorrow. If anyone is interested, PM me and we can get a set for ya (good price). He can do panels for any MPC as well. He gets all kinds of wood too, from maple, black walnut, ash, you name it. He's doing my new set in Black Walnut.
By mpampouras Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:42 am
Nice..can't wait to see the pics!

ndowney wrote:My co-worker is a very skilled woodworker and made some wooden panels for me. He is going to make me another set that cover the whole side of the 4000. I will post some pics tomorrow. If anyone is interested, PM me and we can get a set for ya (good price). He can do panels for any MPC as well. He gets all kinds of wood too, from maple, black walnut, ash, you name it. He's doing my new set in Black Walnut.
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By renato_rizoli Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:43 am
They stick with a sort of "foam" tape. I really don't like it because :
- you can't remove them if you want to open up your MPC
- I love the design of the original parts (which is much more complicated)

But for me the main question is "Is it worth 120$ ?"

Well ... IMO These aren't very well made but I read people crying about 120$, so I guess that quality wood panels would have been far too expensive for most of us
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By Bugfix Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:30 pm
120$ would be more than fair price for high quality 4k sides and front with screws as original.

BTW This is one of :) sampled designs of mpc1000 sides I've made specially for mpc-stuff for a test, but we resigned as duty tax and oversea delivery costs would make them overpriced.. they are in US and I'm in EU.
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