HD Track Playback in Songmode

Has anyone used this feature extensively for live purposes, if so, is this very reliable and is it fast switching time between songs?

I've read the manual and searched posts but cannot find any answers to my liking. I'm considering the 5000 for this purpose as the 4000 is difficult to get a hold of these days...

Reason behind this:
I'd like to be able to play 4 long audio/wav files along with 4 midi tracks per song.

Explained: What I'd like to be able to do is play one to 4 wave / audio files per song, 5 to 10 minutes in length, mono is fine.
There will be 4 midi tracks, mtc a must, some automated midi tracks for jomox airbase & ds poly rack, some used via midi-thru from connected keyboard on other sound modules.
Streaming the audio from the jomox through the onboard filters during song play would be great as well.
I'd also like to know the load times or access times when switching from one song to another, where each song has different wave / audio files. Not specified in manual.

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The only other devices I've seen that support this, less any laptop/computer, is the Tascam 2488neo but it doesn't do midi-thru and the midi track per song is smf only with mtc, which I can manage. I just want more on the midi usability side of things.
If the writing capabilities of the 5000 outweigh my rs7000K, that would be a bonus...

Thanks,
Ubiquitous

I know that on RS7000 (I also have it) switching from one song to another is immediately...on MPC5000 if you use the HD tracks, this is far from 'immediately', I don't know what exactly MPC does when 'loading in' the HD Tracks but it takes a couple of seconds so forget about a smooth mix.

I tried to incorporate MPC in a live set, but above is one of the reason's I'm not succeeding, the only way around is to allready line up all your songs and save it as one song...but then you loose the ability to 'choose' a song while performing live.

Even with maxed out RAM you will not have enough to fit your needs...

When it comes to playing large wav's I would suggest a small macbook with ableton...I bought a 2nd hand macbook for 600 euro's , put ableton on it and even with e 8 channel soundcard, all in all it cost me far less then my MPC5000 and is faster, more possibilities, smaller etc etc...

Thanks for the informed reply Seiko!

That's our last option as we'd be looking at a solid state drive, way too many heat issues and bounce issues with those spindle array's. If we can find a used mac book w/ssd will do but more than likely a toshiba w/ssd and linux pushing my focusrite SP40.

Maybe on the next mpc upgrade, they'll allow for 1 gig of ram instead of 192MB...

Ubiquitous.