OJ Reem wrote:Thanks for posting this link for the MPC 5000. $2499 shipping at the end of Feb? Akai is really on top of their game with this one....
OJ Reem wrote:dabmeister wrote:Last time I checked, a sample is recorded audio. No one claimed continuous sample tracks are streamed from the HD in real time. In the old MPCs, if your sequence starts after an event is supposed to be triggered..you will get no audio. However, this new function will start/stop/play multiple samples at the correct position every time. Using direct record and continuous sample track feature, you can plug-in a guitar or mic and record direct to the track....that audio track. Of course there is limitations. It doesn't have the normal editing functions of the 8 tracks of hard disk recording. However, I will keep calling continuous sample tracks audios tracks because that is what they are to me! Maybe I will call them audio tracks LE if that would make you happier
scd wrote:Yo, straighten up your quotes man.OJ Reem wrote:Last time I checked, a sample is recorded audio. No one claimed continuous sample tracks are streamed from the HD in real time. In the old MPCs, if your sequence starts after an event is supposed to be triggered..you will get no audio. However, this new function will start/stop/play multiple samples at the correct position every time. Using direct record and continuous sample track feature, you can plug-in a guitar or mic and record direct to the track....that audio track. Of course there is limitations. It doesn't have the normal editing functions of the 8 tracks of hard disk recording. However, I will keep calling continuous sample tracks audios tracks because that is what they are to me! Maybe I will call them audio tracks LE if that would make you happier
Actually the continues sample track is as you describe above.
There is only 1 real limitation: the limited sample memory.
But I would say it has also some *extra's* above HD streaming: being it a sample you'll have all the filter and modulation stuff added to it, which you don't have when streaming audio tracks. To me the continuous sample track feature is pretty nice.
Prophacee wrote:I've been looking and listening. I don't think the 5000 is for me. I have a 2500, Pro Tools M-powered, an 18 in, 14 out interface, an Ensoniq EPS with 8 outs, a Motif rack, Reason 4 and a 2.4GHz iMac. If this is Akai's latest offering, I'm just gonna get a used 4000 and sell my 2500. Or just keep my 2500. I'm not paying that much for the 5000. No way. I can think of a bunch of other things to add to my rig for $2500. Thanks but no thanks.
OJ Reem wrote:How would you know, you dont know how to use this stuff yourself. You're just a gear collector. Stop giving false advice slim.Prophacee wrote:I've been looking and listening. I don't think the 5000 is for me. I have a 2500, Pro Tools M-powered, an 18 in, 14 out interface, an Ensoniq EPS with 8 outs, a Motif rack, Reason 4 and a 2.4GHz iMac. If this is Akai's latest offering, I'm just gonna get a used 4000 and sell my 2500. Or just keep my 2500. I'm not paying that much for the 5000. No way. I can think of a bunch of other things to add to my rig for $2500. Thanks but no thanks.
You came over here just to say that? Get yourself an MPC 4000..get rid of the M-powered and replace it with Logic, put the EPS in storage and get yourself a used Motif or Fantom or Triton.....
sparq wrote:yo Blue, remember a conversation we had a while ago. it's finally here.......
"wowww..." especially with the 4k, you know? you see that machine and it's "the machine", but look at the 5k, looks like plastic cheap crap... i never saw any 5k personally but its like i think looking at the web page... akai are making some new shit only cuz they want the money...
OJ Reem wrote:So if you are saying wow to the MPC 2000XL why would you not say the same for the MPC 2500? It is build better than the 2000XL and I assume that the MPC 5000 will be the same.
