Just bought a 2000xl with bad screen..

So I won a 2000xl with a faulty screen for 90 GBP. Seller says you can barely see it so I'm hoping maybe it's the contrast.

I've never had an MPC before and while I wait to get a new LCD, is it possible for me to play around with it at all?

Let's say I turn it on, can I hit the pads to trigger sounds or is it more complex than that?

If I wanted use the MPC as a midi controller with Logic, would I be able to figure this out without seeing the screen? I have a USB controller that has a midi port on it.

Any advice etc is appreciated.

Maybe it has only a few lines, hopefully you can navigate around, check on e-bay, mpc stuff, vst, maybe one of those guys has a screen

Be-easy

my clasdic had lines too and with a little help from the manual I can live with it.
you cant start unless you havnt loaded samples.
Midi probably works because its easy to set up.

Where can I get a PDF of the XL manual? I've checked the Akaipro site but the page has nothing on it right now.

It's listed under legacy produts

http://www.akaipro.com/mpc2000xl/?tt=5

Got it from MPCSounds.com

Time to get reading.

We have the manuals, along with os versions, available on our Free Downloads page here:

http://scsiforsamplers.com/download.asp

We also have a very nice screen available for the MPC2000XL here:

http://scsiforsamplers.com/samplerparts.asp

If you decide to add a card reader drive to your XL, be sure to check out our XL Flash drive, as well as our SCSI card reader drives.