Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
By King Midas Made Tha Beat Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:15 pm
I went yesterday and drove 4 hours round trip to buy a 2500. I got there and WOW. I was told it was mint and it clearly wasn't. It has issues.

The pads wasn't working and when I click the Mode button to go to Program, Grid Edit or any other function, nothing works. The 16 Level button does not work either. I couldn't load anything. I couldn't mount it to my computer. I tried powering the unit off and holding down erase while powering it back up and that didn't help. Here is the craziest part of it all... When pressing Note Repeat on bank A & C it would trigger a sound but not on B & D.

Has anyone seen or heard of this problem or problem's? I can't just drive back and get it without knowing how to fix it before hand. He was asking $550 but before I went I had him down to $475. Also it was running on the Akai OS.

Thanks for the help
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By Tag One The Fader Fiend Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:34 pm
I agree with Tutor, keep an eye on ebay for a decent one at a good price. Got my 2500 on ebay about 11 months ago with JJ-OSXL, 128mb ram upgrade and 40gb hard drive for snip at £330 including shipping the total was £365. The only issue with it was a broken USB port but it's not a big issue and maybe with a bit of proper research it could be a cheap easy fix for the winter months.