Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
By joustrock Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:54 am
ok, did the memory upgrade myself, basically i replaced the board labeled and rfesembling the one already in there, worked fine,
Now i am going to do the 3.01 upgrade and the scsi upgrade.hesitant about these because i am not just substituting chips..Help me out, any info is appreciated.
JOUSTROCK

By elmacaco Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:27 am
They come with good instructions, just be careful and take it slow and don't force anything unless you absolutly must.

I think he has the instructions as a PDF on his site.

By 9thfloormaniac Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:55 pm
How do you take a mpc 3000 apart? I wanna add some memory that I bought.

By elmacaco Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:16 am
Lots of screws on the bottom around the edge and some on the back.
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By itchyvinyl Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:16 am
I just did my 3.10 and RAM upgrades last night.
Prying those O.G. O/S chips out was a nail-biter, but it all worked out.

I got the O/S and RAM from Route 66 and Sound Logic respectively.
They both took kind of a long time, around three weeks from the time of the order......then again their prices were cheaper than anyone else's.
Worth the wait.

It's SO much better of a machine with the 3.10. Get it.

By elmacaco Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:59 pm
4 midi outs, 12 bit sampling at 40kHz. a button based menu system, an arm rest, better build quality, better bass response, a bigger screen with a more elegant OS, a less cluttered panel, no open window weirdness, footswitch inputs, Echo send and return, some editing features are not present as well, like taking all c2 notes on a track and changing them to a4 or other note. But I am not sure about that last one, a guy was asking how to do that and he couldn't figure it out, might be possible.

That's all I can think of right now. What the 60 doesn't have that the XL does is a longer more impressive list on paper, but what the 60 has is more of a User Interface luxury, while the features of the XL are more along the lines of FX and editing stuff. Track mute is pretty cool.