I know the MPC5000 is overhyped right?Wrong!!!!!!

Askia Shaheed wrote:I will be selling $100K tracks in no time. Get one now and you may experience the same.

i haven't read through this whole thread, i just saw that he said this.
now man, i agreed with what you said earlier, about letting you enjoy your new toy.
yeah go ahead, people can talk shit about it but they sound dumb when they say that you shouldn't have gotten it. because you like it. thats why you spent money on it.

BUT.

selling $100K tracks?

thats really setting extremely high goals for yourself.
good luck with it though, if you really feel that it is...possible

I love reading thru some of these old post.....

I am getting one in September... Make more wack music!

KappNeffect wrote:I am getting one in September... Make more wack music!

you really gonna buy one Kapp

screw that! get ya a beat thingie in July...

Askia Shaheed wrote:I will be selling $100K tracks in no time. Get one now and you may experience the same.

you're reaching now...

ArKyve-31 wrote:

KappNeffect wrote:I am getting one in September... Make more wack music!

you really gonna buy one Kapp

Yep... I'm down to try a little bit of this and that... no shame. Plus I really like to gauge it myslef and not listen to the critics.... The critics say that using a computer to make beats is "wack"... I say "It works"


So I'll see what's the haps on this beast (hopefully!)

b.read wrote:screw that! get ya a beat thingie in July...

My birthday is on the 5th of July is you wanna wire about the $2000....



and did that dude really say 100K?@!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I though he said $100 tracks...

hunnerd penny tracks

I think you'd enjoy the 4k more than the 5, but thats just my opinion

I've never had a chance to use a 4000..... From what I read and spec wise, it's the Top Dog MPC ( most Ram, 6 banks, more program's....)

I personally love my 5000. I loved playing with my friends 3000 and his 2000xl. But I wanted something new. I hate dealing with zip disk and HAVE to do everything inside my MPC. A friend told me ( who is a diehard 2000XL owner ) I should buy a newer model for the ease of loading and saving. I'm happy I took his advise.

But I will say this, I'm gonna buy a 3000 and a SP in a few years..... But I'll always keep my 5000.

Interesting thread... Then I hear MPC-5000, I remember the Just Blaze ranting about 5000...

Anyway, what is the major 5000's advantage (if there is) over MPC-1000/2500 with JJOS (which, really surprises me with the features, and JJ team is still updating! )? I don't know much about MPC-5000. I know 5000 has virtual synth.

I personally think that 5000 has never been over-hyped; it has never had good reputation.
I at least now know that some people are happy with MPC-5000.

Dan L wrote:I've never had a chance to use a 4000..... From what I read and spec wise, it's the Top Dog MPC ( most Ram, 6 banks, more program's....)

I personally love my 5000. I loved playing with my friends 3000 and his 2000xl. But I wanted something new. I hate dealing with zip disk and HAVE to do everything inside my MPC. A friend told me ( who is a diehard 2000XL owner ) I should buy a newer model for the ease of loading and saving. I'm happy I took his advise.

But I will say this, I'm gonna buy a 3000 and a SP in a few years..... But I'll always keep my 5000.

while I agree about the new models for features and more ram... the ease of loading and saving reasoning is flawed... every single mpc model can take CF memory cards. every mpc model can take hard drives except maybe the 500 though I am not sure. Zip disks are not mandatory, nor are they even recommended since they suck.

mr_debauch wrote:while I agree about the new models for features and more ram... the ease of loading and saving reasoning is flawed...

I agree to a point...

When I upgraded my XL with a card reader it soon became tedious to go through large drum folders, especially having to load everything into ram to audition the sounds... not to mention the F keys getting hammered in the process.

With JJ you can audition sounds with F5, Play/Play Start or the pads. You can also scroll through them with the jog dial, cursor buttons or the Bar buttons. You can even just hold a pad and use the jog dial to skim through sounds super quick. It's little workflow enhancements like this that makes the newer models quicker to work on.

Most diehard XL users would love the 2500.

Coz wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:while I agree about the new models for features and more ram... the ease of loading and saving reasoning is flawed...

I agree to a point...

When I upgraded my XL with a card reader it soon became tedious to go through large drum folders, especially having to load everything into ram to audition the sounds... not to mention the F keys getting hammered in the process.

With JJ you can audition sounds with F5, Play/Play Start or the pads. You can also scroll through them with the jog dial, cursor buttons or the Bar buttons. You can even just hold a pad and use the jog dial to skim through sounds super quick. It's little workflow enhancements like this that makes the newer models quicker to work on.

Most diehard XL users would love the 2500.

yeah I can agree with that... I guess the way I look at things are a bit differently because when making a beat on the mpc it's not made from all parts I dug up from cards... they are sampled in at the time of making the beat... so the card is basically for saving all the song components in it's own directory as well as loading the projects back up at a later date. At first I did transfer piles and piles of sounds to the card when I first got it years ago but then I stopped that method because browsing through hundreds of gigs of drums and other samples is simply not my thing inside the mpc but rather something I do on the PC.

you are right though about auditioning sounds if you do things that way. I use the auditioning a lot on the mv just to remind myself the contents of my patches.... but that workflow is different from the way I use my mpcs.

I am sure I would love a 2500 supposing I owned one and had one permanently in my setup... however I know I wouldn't view it as using the 2500 instead of the 2000 classic or XL or what have you. It would just be another machine I use sometimes. when I work on the classic or what ever model I find myself doing so because I like working on that specific piece of gear... you know what I mean? Like often you see around here people are selling this to get that, switching from that to this... (seling the mpc to buy maschine is a prime example) and that just isn't me, I know some of you can probably relate... If I bought a maschine or any other new thing it would be to use that new piece of kit... not to replace the machine I am already enjoying.

I like to have a streamlined workflow with minimal gear these days... I even ditched my studio mixer recently because I found a workaround where I don't need it anymore. The sampling side of things just consists of a turntable, 2500, MFC42 and a Rane mixer. I just track everything out through the Rane one track at a time... works fine for me.

I would also only ever need/want one MPC at a time. If the differences in feel, sound and workflow were drastically different I'd be more inclined to have a few, but I don't think they are that different. I'm only ever interested in getting from A to B with minimal hassle, and I think any MPC can deliver that.