By kday
Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:06 pm
Mini Review
Had a chance to thoroughly mess around & play this new MPC5000 for myself.
I now understand, that the 5000 is clearly no joke really. The built in synthesizer triggered by the ARP generator is a real beast I must say! The sounds are MASSIVE! I mean MASSIVE & FRESH ! I'm warning you could blow the roof off if you crank out sounds like I did. You could create some unique synth sounds like I did and then ARP and RESAMPLE them up into something funky, I mean the unit is really a REAL beast.
In a couple of minutes I was cranking out hard core hip hop that even DR DRE and Timberland would love with the funkiest basslines & leads ever created!!!!! ALL unique basses and lead & fx sounds! Then I added leads after leads after leads and even more synth sounds on top of drum loops and guitar loops and original sounds until I had to stop from the chill bumps that overwhelmed my body!
All I can say is man, that MPC5000 was kicking like a mule unlike anything I ever played or experience in my mpc experiences and I own the mother of them all the MPC4000. It really surprised me much more than I thought coming from a MPC4000 perspective though.
A Roland MV8800 with one mono bass note and one midi output can't compete or even come close to the MPC5000 IMHO. You have 20 analog synth voices and 4 midi outputs. People even mention the LINNDRUM II but after reading the specs it don't look to exciting to me.
Original Beat junkies out there will probably love this unit. Techno/House producers will probably jump for joy on this too & commercialize the sound potential more faster or just as fast as hip hop producers because of the umlimited opportunity to also create the trance & techno sounds & tracks this thing can produce.
If you use MPCs to create beats and own anything less than a MPC4000 I say run out and buy this if you can afford this, and step up into the 21st Century. MPC4000 users if you want some instant onboard originality along with your samples and be able to cut vocals or play live instruments instantly through the 8-track HD recorder you might want to add this to your arsenal for world domination.
This unit may not pack as many features as the MPC4000 but it may well be the greatest MPC ever created I think.
The only thing I don't like about it is the name. Akai should have kept the MPC numbers below the 4000 so it wouldn't create confusion or a backlash as to people expecting to be identical to all the features they think they may need from the 4000 in comparison. Maybe Akai should have named it the MPC 3500 to you folks and everybody probably would have been totally satisfied to it being what it is.
I can live with 192mb of memory and a DVD burner and a 20 voice funky fresh onboard synthesizer with a fresh ARP generator and the Chop Shop 2.0 and Phrase Pad generator and all the other new stuff.
For $2,500 this thing is totally unbeatable and now nothing compares or even comes close to features per price ratio.
Just my .02cents
Had a chance to thoroughly mess around & play this new MPC5000 for myself.
I now understand, that the 5000 is clearly no joke really. The built in synthesizer triggered by the ARP generator is a real beast I must say! The sounds are MASSIVE! I mean MASSIVE & FRESH ! I'm warning you could blow the roof off if you crank out sounds like I did. You could create some unique synth sounds like I did and then ARP and RESAMPLE them up into something funky, I mean the unit is really a REAL beast.
In a couple of minutes I was cranking out hard core hip hop that even DR DRE and Timberland would love with the funkiest basslines & leads ever created!!!!! ALL unique basses and lead & fx sounds! Then I added leads after leads after leads and even more synth sounds on top of drum loops and guitar loops and original sounds until I had to stop from the chill bumps that overwhelmed my body!
All I can say is man, that MPC5000 was kicking like a mule unlike anything I ever played or experience in my mpc experiences and I own the mother of them all the MPC4000. It really surprised me much more than I thought coming from a MPC4000 perspective though.
A Roland MV8800 with one mono bass note and one midi output can't compete or even come close to the MPC5000 IMHO. You have 20 analog synth voices and 4 midi outputs. People even mention the LINNDRUM II but after reading the specs it don't look to exciting to me.
Original Beat junkies out there will probably love this unit. Techno/House producers will probably jump for joy on this too & commercialize the sound potential more faster or just as fast as hip hop producers because of the umlimited opportunity to also create the trance & techno sounds & tracks this thing can produce.
If you use MPCs to create beats and own anything less than a MPC4000 I say run out and buy this if you can afford this, and step up into the 21st Century. MPC4000 users if you want some instant onboard originality along with your samples and be able to cut vocals or play live instruments instantly through the 8-track HD recorder you might want to add this to your arsenal for world domination.
This unit may not pack as many features as the MPC4000 but it may well be the greatest MPC ever created I think.
The only thing I don't like about it is the name. Akai should have kept the MPC numbers below the 4000 so it wouldn't create confusion or a backlash as to people expecting to be identical to all the features they think they may need from the 4000 in comparison. Maybe Akai should have named it the MPC 3500 to you folks and everybody probably would have been totally satisfied to it being what it is.
I can live with 192mb of memory and a DVD burner and a 20 voice funky fresh onboard synthesizer with a fresh ARP generator and the Chop Shop 2.0 and Phrase Pad generator and all the other new stuff.
For $2,500 this thing is totally unbeatable and now nothing compares or even comes close to features per price ratio.
Just my .02cents
Last edited by kday on Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.