Gettin rid of my 60

I'm seriously considering selling both my 60's and getting a 2500 or a 5000, whats general opinion on this ?
It's a few differnt issues that are bothering me
1. Sample time
2. Stereo sampling is a pain
3. Back ground noise playing at random
4. Chopping up, on the new machines I could just get one long sample and pull out parts and assign to pads, on the 60 I got to take a million different samples.

I do like the sound of the 60 a lot, but its killing me in so many other ways.

Anyone else find the 60 to be a bit of a Ballache ?

Peas
Toe

I never worked with a 60 but I think in your situation I would sell only 1 of them and get a 1000 with JJOS.

peace

yeah I agree

use your best 60 for drums and the sequencers ease of use..that should keep the memory problem at bay and you're gonna want your drums in mono anyway...sequence info and drums should be one floppy max and with the 1K you can get all the features you want for your main samples...or you could look to an SP404 as well

how much you sell mpc 60 for?

I was in a similair position lately and decided to keep my 60 cuz I will miss it. I can totally in to what you are saying about loading times etc, just sell one, keep the other one, you wont regret it.

I got the a CF reader in one of the 60's so loading times dont bother me.
I looked at 1000's but I'd rather have the 8 outs because thats the way I have always worked,
I've have done or still do work on,
Akai s2000 with the outs
Emu 6400 with 16 outs
MPC 2000 with outs
I had a Yamaha with 16 outs
and I mix on Yamaha 01v96, hence I like to have the outs and Pro Tools.

Yeah I agree w/ 64. Sell one and keep the 60 w/ the CF card reader. I own a 60 and a 2500. The 60 still gets the most use. I get more creative with the sampling time, like the sequencer and sound more. 2500 is just super convenient, which can be great sometimes, but sometimes (at least for me) I will sample too much, and essentially make mediocre stuff. While with the 60 I take my time to get the right sounds & make it bang how I want. Maybe I just have a discipline issue though, haha.

Oh and personally, I don't use chopshop. Call me old school, but when I hear a sound I want I samples, then sample the next one. Doesn't take much longer then creating zones in chop shop. I think people overrate that feature on the new MP's because of laziness.

Why not just get an s950, or an s2000. Some rackmount sampler and then just midi them up. I have an s2000 I could sell you if your interested.

If chopping is your problem the s950 or either of those wont help you , but if you want the classic sound with new tech i would get a 1k with s950 or something because then you would not need the sequencer of the 60

I've got a s2000, I have been looking at 950s as well.
Think I will end up keeping one, but I def need a new MPC2500 or 5000

How does the MPC3000 work with samples, can can you take a 10 sec sample then copy out zones ?

Why as people said sell one of the 60's and get a 2000XL? Or a MPC-3000
Personaly I'm not a fan of the newer Akai stuff like the 2500 and 1k..
Or if you going to sell both 60's you can get a MPC-4000 and S-950
The world is yours man lol

keep your 60 and get an akai z8

http://cgi.ebay.com/AKAI-Z8-SAMPLER-W-U ... 7C294%3A50

or get an emu 4 series

Good idea with the Z8 but I would rather have a S-6000 with the USB option

Toe wrote:4. Chopping up, on the new machines I could just get one long sample and pull out parts and assign to pads, on the 60 I got to take a million different samples.

You can do this with the original operating system of the 60. One sample can be assigned to pads with different start and end points on each pad - still only saved as one sample.

Apples wrote:

Toe wrote:4. Chopping up, on the new machines I could just get one long sample and pull out parts and assign to pads, on the 60 I got to take a million different samples.

You can do this with the original operating system of the 60. One sample can be assigned to pads with different start and end points on each pad - still only saved as one sample.

im pretty sure the 60 doesnt have this (non destructive chopping).