Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By Metatron72 Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:46 am
Looking at when the blues came out so close to the Numark sale, I don't think there are nearly as many of them. But it's cool to know that a blue is way less mileage almost guaranteed.

Like the blue XL's and most don't realize this but the last beige XL's have a different hue to the paint and a different LCD hue. (And my ~2004-ish XL does not sound the same as my ~99/2000 one). It's great to know less use is very likely.

I hear the 4k blues fans are way quieter than the early whites too. But my white 4k is still going strong, appears to be a 2002/2003 one. Hell it's got rust on the fan grill from starting life down in Rogue Scrunt's area by the Gulf. Fantastic build quality on the 4k.

But it's never been serviced or repaired, and I have like one tact that might need replacing, and it's not even too bad. Probably would go another 1-3 years just off some Deoxit.

It's the G.O.A.T. MPC for sure.
By rogue scrunt Tue Aug 13, 2013 12:31 am
The machine is what I would call cherry, for being 11 years old

I opened it up and put extra RAM in today.

The original hard drive, and cd drive are in excellent condition.
today I am loading portions of my sample catalog onto the drive.

Still no pictures, but maybe sometime this week.