MPC 5000 OS 3.0 Vs Linn Drum 2

it seems like people are only willing to use one single unit to do everything.... it is always the case of this or that.... never this and that.

it is always: "the mpc is better then that so I wont sell it"... the goal of making new products is not to convince you to sell your other stuff. it seems like people are so loyal to specific companies that they refuse to consider mixing several machines to create a beat or what ever...

keep the mpc to use it for what it does well, do the same with your other products... and you will have the best of every category.

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I don't think I have ever read so much myth and speculation in a thread in my entire life.

the test is for people interested in knowing if a 600 € hybrid soft/hardware combo sounds better or worse than a 2000 € MPC...

of course the two thing are not the same, but in term of sound quality it worth to have a comparison.

The thing is the NI maschine won't have a sound per se.

With the exception of the summing engine, it is the converters of the soundcard that will dictate the sound.

I agree on the summing engine... that's why I have made a pattern comparison instead a "sample by sample" comparison. I have already made a comparison for some samplers (ableton samplers, battery, logic's esx24, reason's redrum) and I confirm that they all have the same identical sound... the only difference is for reason's redrum that has a good sound in itself but is then degraded by reason's mixer.

anyway, is obvious that, unlike the soft-samplers, the MPC cuts the attacks of all the samples: try to listen to the toms, in the maschine pattern you can hear all the "ticks" on the attack transients. In the mpc patterns these are gone!

anyway, the mpc remains the quickest machine for sampled based patterns...

Cat3 wrote:anyway, the mpc remains the quickest machine for sampled based patterns...

I don't think so. I've used many MPCs and my Maschine has a quicker workflow than any of them. The step sequencer with visual feedback alone does things that the MPC can only dream of.

Anyway, I also think it's silly to speculate about each device's "sound" and summing engines...etc. They're all capable tools in the right hands. I'd rather make music than worrying about if one device has the right sound or whatever.

I agree, when music is just your hobby you can make everything you want without worrying about the sound quality.

emptysea wrote:I'd rather make music than worrying about if one device has the right sound or whatever.

wouldnt you agree that right sound is important in music field ? or am I talking about film scoring