Buying a 500?

i dont know! im using battery and if i want i could use it like a mpc but a mpc is a mpc

I've had so many samplers (MV-8000, SP-404, & tons of software "samplers") & the 500 is my weapon of choice. I still use my MAC for just about everything as well, but if you love to sample & love the feel of hardware, the 500 will definetly not let you dwn @ all. I was thinking about getting the 1000, but once i campared the 2 (which i did for about 7-8 months) i had 2 get the 500, just bcuz its a truly portable MPC, & i felt like my setup was missing sumthing. I wanted 2 get it when it 1st 1st came out. But that price tag was silly. I got a new one off the bay 4 $300 wit shipping included. (AMAZING). What's the price on it 499? maybe 599? either way. this thing is an amazing main use in my setup, but you have to have other equipment to use it 2 it's full potential? (in my opinon). . . .Long story short. . . just buy the damn thing

hahaha! nice story man! but thhe 12 pads makes me sad:D i would like to have 16 pads! but if u say that the 500 is a nice sampler i must blieve it:D hahaha


greetz kay-cee

I don't really see what the big deal is about only having 12 pads.

I mean, usually I work like this --

Bank A = Drums
Bank B = Primary Samples

And Banks C and D might get used for miscellaneous stuff.

bedouin wrote:I don't really see what the big deal is about only having 12 pads.

I mean, usually I work like this --

Bank A = Drums
Bank B = Primary Samples

And Banks C and D might get used for miscellaneous stuff.

I agree. It's cool i guess. But def. not needed. You can only use so many samples anyway. if you use more then 48 samples i dont know what the hell kind of song your making. 48 is plenty 4 this guy.

nxnut_92 wrote:I agree. It's cool i guess. But def. not needed. You can only use so many samples anyway. if you use more then 48 samples i dont know what the hell kind of song your making. 48 is plenty 4 this guy.

Let's say I had one sample chopped across all four pad banks and that sample is my primary sample. Then let's say I need to program drums still. Just create / load another program and assign it to a new track. No problem.

Yeah, 12 pads is fine. I can still play parts using the the 12 levels tunings. Sure, that`s 4 less notes I can play, but if I need a wider range I`d just use a midi keyboard.

It`s actually nice having just 3 columns of pads, so on any row you can have [kick]-[snare]-[hat] which is all a lot of people would be using for drums anyway.

If you have more than 48 samples, simply make a new program. You can have 99 programs which means that you can have 4752 samples assigned to pads. I often use more than 100 samples without probs. The 12 pads is closer to the 12 keys on a piano

With a midi-keyboard you can have 49 samples at your fingertips @ the same time, without switching banks or stuff like that. A keyboard makes a lot of things easier anyway