Would you cop a JJ OS for the 500 and what would it get you?

All I really need is the chop-shop feature and the function to set a track for each pad - THEN I'M HAPPY!

When the 500 came out everyone said "that's the perfect thing for mobile producing" (that was one of the reasons why I bought it)..but what when you found a great sample and want to chop it ? manual chopping? I mean.. when I'm on the road i don't have the time to chop it manually! And also I haven't got a notebook or something to chop on it(when I'm on the road).

And now the second problem.. we assume that we allready made a Song on the mpc and want to record in cubase or something to mix it down... so we have to record each track. (it's a bit circular but it's ok..) The problem is I usually record the kick and the snare at the same time (it records it on the same track)
and if you want to mix each drum apart that will be a problem!
I think the best solution for this would be a function to set a track for each pad.. (or is this already possible?) so when u record u can mute (as usual) the tracks/pads that u don't want to record..

So a new OS like the JJ OS or an update from Akai would be great!

(excuse my bad english )

I record the kick & snare usually on the same track too. Like you allready know there is no muting of each pad. But what you do is go to program mode, -> sample assign, and there set the pads you want to mute to off.
And maybe it would be good to write down which samples where assigned to which pad.

Yeah thanks! thats a cool method.. i'll try it!

BTW.. A Function so spread a Sample allover the midikeyboard
(like the 12levels button) would be nice too!
..what I mean is when the 12levels button is active, the sample gets spread allover the midikeyboard..
(not too long ago I found out that my EMU Xboard25 works with batteries too! ..so that would be awesome!!)