By ChuyLocs602
Fri May 13, 2016 8:48 am
Whats going on everybody. New to the forum and new to the mpc. I've known little about the mpc but never really put any thought into checking them out since I was first introduced to NI's Maschine. I love the maschine but I also love being standalone, getting away from the computer. I had ventured into other grooveboxes etc like the akai xr20, korg volcas, and most recently the new korg electribe. I feel I have been screwing up and not getting an mpc. So here I am looking for something to match my needs. I dont usually sample from other songs I just want a standalone machine that I can build drums for rap/hiphop/r&b/soul/ and funk productions that I will take to the computer for further production. Im looking for the options of...
•quantization or no quantization
•note repeat
•stand alone
And
• general great sequencing possibilities for my purpose.
One of the main reasons I had been eyeing the 2000xl for a while (other than a standalone drum machine/sampler is badass) . The 8 outs option got me dreaming because the maschine and protools integration isnt all that great for song building. I would love to eventually buy a higher channel count interface with some high end preamps to increase workflow speed. I was also thinking a mpc 500 would be a cool portable solution to building song ideas...and the price is almost half the price of the 2000xl im finding. I had boughten the xr20 a while back which is ok but i mainly dont like not being able to use my own drum sounds. Then I bought the new korg electribe synth version was ok. Workflow is better than the xr20 but i cant use my own samples plus not being able to turn quantization off kinda limits me.
I dont know too much the differences of models but im just going based on some things ive seen and heard. So based off my experiences and needs what do you guys recommend I do? Thanks
•quantization or no quantization
•note repeat
•stand alone
And
• general great sequencing possibilities for my purpose.
One of the main reasons I had been eyeing the 2000xl for a while (other than a standalone drum machine/sampler is badass) . The 8 outs option got me dreaming because the maschine and protools integration isnt all that great for song building. I would love to eventually buy a higher channel count interface with some high end preamps to increase workflow speed. I was also thinking a mpc 500 would be a cool portable solution to building song ideas...and the price is almost half the price of the 2000xl im finding. I had boughten the xr20 a while back which is ok but i mainly dont like not being able to use my own drum sounds. Then I bought the new korg electribe synth version was ok. Workflow is better than the xr20 but i cant use my own samples plus not being able to turn quantization off kinda limits me.
I dont know too much the differences of models but im just going based on some things ive seen and heard. So based off my experiences and needs what do you guys recommend I do? Thanks