New here and new to MPC's.. thinking of geting an MPC1000..

I was thinking of picking up a used MPC1000. I might have a good deal on one in good condition.

I was reading about upgrading the memory, hard drive, and Operating System.

For someone who is just starting out, should I use JJOS or keep whatever is in there?

I hear the stock hard drive is 5400rpm.. is there some place with a tutorial on upgrading to a 7200rpm drive? I hear this makes the machine run more reliable and faster obviously. I build and repair computers, so opening something isn't a problem for me. Do I need to format the drive in a certain way or copy stuff off the old drive to get it to work?

Man, make sure it is in good condition before you buy. I've bought my new and I cannot share the stories like.. "wtf is going on with my mpc, memory, pads etc."

Make yourself a favor and load up at least free jjos. You got more money to spend for some major improvements? dive into jjos of your choice. There is comparison chart somewhere. IMO xl is faster than others, but I don't know if there's a good manual covering all shortcuts.

I don't think 7200rpm drive will make a noticable difference in mpc. It's just for storage and loading samples and sequences, not for streaming.

and.. if you will load up any of jjos you have to format all storage devices you have using MPC formatting, without using your MAC/PC.

Thanks for the info. Yeah, after I posted I found the info on formatting and how to install JJOS.

I'd buy a new one, but $800 bucks for something I don't know how much use I'll get out of.. I have every intent to get use out of it, but we'll see when I actually start learning it.

I mean you should look out for broken mpcs. Buy face to face if you can. I would.

Yep. Understood.

if ur in the uk i have a black mpc 1000 for sale with memory upgrade and jjos installed

Sorry United states.

jpeg wrote:if ur in the uk i have a black mpc 1000 for sale with memory upgrade and jjos installed

yo, i will warn you, i just bought a mpc1000 for cheap, it needs the pad upgrade, and the tact switches for the cursor keys are starting to go out. so i go to order parts and the pcb board with the tact switches has been out of stock for longer then 6 months, and the pad upgrade is outta stock too, I called Akai, and they are worthless pieces of shit, they have no clue when the pcb boards will be back in stock, and they say all the pad upgrades are already sold right when they come back in stock,, its kinda **** up they still make a product, but you cant get parts for it. I reported them to ripoff reports dot com.. i thought yea, i'll by a second hand mpc with some problems, sink some extra money into it and fix it up, and learn something in the process. all ive learned is akai/numark is a piece of shit company that dont give a shit about you, all they care about is getting you hard earned $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

it really sucks it has to be this way, i really love this mpc1000, i have a mpc500 too, also a mpd32 and a lpd8.. but i think why i love the 1000 so much is the jjos, man, jjos kicks **** ass, akai's os was **** shit.. on another note, after **** with the 1000 with akai's os i realized the os on the mpc500 wasnt so bad after all. if there was no jjos then my top pick would be the 500

yuppicide wrote:I hear the stock hard drive is 5400rpm..

there is no stock hard drive on the mpc1000 - it comes with no hard drive, just a compact flash card, so if it has a 5400rpm one in, someone installed it. you could replace it if you want, though you don't need to. there'll be nothing on the drive that the mpc needs to run so you could wipe it if you don't like the samples stored on there. since the mpc1000 comes with no hard drive when new, the OS and system data is not stored on the drive (it's in internal flash memory)

as others have warned, the mpc1000 has a reputation for going wrong when compared to other mpc models. if it's the red & blue model then it has the old-style pads which are known to fail - that said, for some people they don't fail.

its very compact and small.