Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
By acronym Tue Feb 05, 2013 5:06 pm
NorthVillah1 wrote:That would be perfect, I just don't know the JJOS that does that, I thought that was an MPC 5000 thing.


its jjosxl that has it
By roxstar Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:36 pm
[quote="m56p87"]@roxstar
Extremely flawed argument, first off your right you can pay tons of money for different technology allowing you to record or export your beats. But the average user wouldn't do that, just like the average user shouldn't buy an entire mpc simply to export beats. I can't believe I'm even having to explain this. By your logic you woulda advise someone to buy a whole nother car to pull their original broken car around town instead of simply fixing the original car,because someone out there will pay 250K for a Ferrari...

Hmm..I don't understand your broken car analogy. Importing/Exporting MPC files is not a broken function that can be fixed in older MPC's. Northvilla isn't trying to buy the Studio because the sequencer/sampler/ function in his 2500 isn't working, he's trying to acquire a function that no other device can offer.
Historically, musicians have spent a lot of money to record their music. A "basic" Protools setup will cost a couple hundred, Roland, Akai, Korg and Yamaha DAWs have never been spare change cheap..."financing" gear is nothing new! The average producer (using hardware) will spend hundreds of dollars on just wires alone during their lifetime of making music!
Your right though, to buy an MPC just to import/export does seem like a waste, but what else can take my MPC program & sequencer files, and 30 seconds later everything is done? MANY people on this forum gladly spend thousands of dollars on vintage gear just to own them..take studio pictures to post! What's so wrong with someone spending $500 to actually use the equipment? Just because its not how you would use it doesn't make it wrong.

ps..not trying to start an argument, just stating my point. (got to make that clear because some peoples feeling get hurt over punctuation marks and misspellings!) :-D
By m56p87 Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:59 pm
Lol I'm sorry man we are never gonna agree, buying a studio to export beats seems like an extremely naive move for anyone, noob or pro. There are just so many better ways to accomplish exporting your tracks. To rationalize it by saying "well people spend $$$ on gear" is a stretch. they do spend $$ on gear but usually they get 100% functionality. Why buy a car just to use the radio, when you can just buy a radio?

I get what your saying, about the ease of export. Specifically loading programs and whatnot. It should be easy, but it seems not many have successful legacy/ren interactions. But I tottally support fixing this and releasing the software standalone to use in exactly the way your discussing.
By roxstar Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:56 pm
"It should be easy, but it seems not many have successful legacy/ren interactions."

yea, that's what I hear also. Personally, I'm waiting on the software to be released by itself, or for the hackers to crack it. I don't mind paying for the software but if Akai doesn't want to put it out like that, then I'll wait! Since I don't make any significant money off this music ish, 2-tracking into Audacity is fine with me! LOL!