MPC5000 for playing backing tracks at live shows-2 music tra

Hi,

I'm wondering if the MPC 5000 is the right solution for my needs and I would appreciate your input.

I'm in a band that uses backing tracks in our live performances. We are currently using a laptop and a audio interface with multiple outputs to send out the backing tracks in stereo to the house and the backing tracks with a click to the drummer. Our sets are about 40+ minutes and I would import two files, a stereo file with the backing tracks and a click track. Is anyone out there is using the MPC5000 in this way? Or an any way that allows you to have 40 minutes of music and send a click track?

I found a MPC5000 for $800 (Is that good?) and i'd like to know if this can be done to pull the trigger. Please let me know.

Thank you for your input and PEACE!

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yes it can but you have to make sure it has a hard drive in it..

mpc5000 has 8 track hard disk player/ recorder....

$800 is good if nothing is wrong with it. has a hard drive and max ram...

...well, if that machine is goin' over the hills during the performance, there is no performance anymore....

if u use a laptop it's way easier to have a safety backup....

but if you use a small ssd harddrive in the mpc 5000, and there is no other fuzz goin on there, a mpc 5000 is THE luxury playback machine......

and no need for extra clicktracks......your drummer will apreciate the option very soon, to program his own clicktracks easily with the sounds of his choice...even on the fly....

another big point here is the tightness......it's a big difference to hit play and it plays really right away....and to cut the arrangements into parts and get the option to really play even the fixed playbacks with a live feel, free to decide where to go on and where to stay for a while....
ableton can do so, too, of course....but that's still a different thing compared to a hardware monster like the 5000....

the last big advantage is the option for the drummer to use the mpc as a trigger module....it's pretty easy to get internal sampler sounds interact with hitted pads or even the acustic set via simple triggersensors......
he can also start the playbacks by hitting something.....
or even single parts of the playback....
or additional synth sequences with the internal synth....

around an hour of showtime should be no problem with the mpc 5000....
if it's mostly preproduced playbacks there's no need to reboot during the show....

and it's way easier to change the setlist spontaneously....

BUT.....keep in mind that you only get hands on the internal sync matching the innertempo of the playbacks, if they're produced on clicktracks...
same with getting them on the internal harddrive.....

reeloy wrote:...well, if that machine is goin' over the hills during the performance, there is no performance anymore....

if u use a laptop it's way easier to have a safety backup....

but if you use a small ssd harddrive in the mpc 5000, and there is no other fuzz goin on there, a mpc 5000 is THE luxury playback machine......

and no need for extra clicktracks......your drummer will apreciate the option very soon, to program his own clicktracks easily with the sounds of his choice...even on the fly....

another big point here is the tightness......it's a big difference to hit play and it plays really right away....and to cut the arrangements into parts and get the option to really play even the fixed playbacks with a live feel, free to decide where to go on and where to stay for a while....
ableton can do so, too, of course....but that's still a different thing compared to a hardware monster like the 5000....

the last big advantage is the option for the drummer to use the mpc as a trigger module....it's pretty easy to get internal sampler sounds interact with hitted pads or even the acustic set via simple triggersensors......
he can also start the playbacks by hitting something.....
or even single parts of the playback....
or additional synth sequences with the internal synth....

around an hour of showtime should be no problem with the mpc 5000....
if it's mostly preproduced playbacks there's no need to reboot during the show....

and it's way easier to change the setlist spontaneously....

BUT.....keep in mind that you only get hands on the internal sync matching the innertempo of the playbacks, if they're produced on clicktracks...
same with getting them on the internal harddrive.....

Having an SSD in the 5k is something that is really interesting to me. That would eliminate the most likely source of failure. Has anyone done it? Was it pretty straight forward?