Hey bro you are on the same path I am on, I love stand alone machines! I will be able to get my ideas down quickly and precisely without any problems and that MPC feel that I am so use to.
I'm definitely getting the Live, and the X later when I set up a stationary post in my house. I couldn't come at a better time. I love staying in the box computer wise though but I will combine the two to have a healthy dynamic beast for my setup. I see it where I won't need anything else for a long time unless Akai out beats this machine and make me go "wtf

I gotta get that now" LOL When it comes to drum machines I don't want it from any other company.
I have had.
1. S950
2. MPC 2000
3. MPC 2000XL
worked on.
MPC 3000 and MPC 60ll and they are some dope arse machines!
I'm going to have my midi keyboard connected to the MPC and my MPC connected midi wise with Reason 9. Right now I don't know what I am going to do with Studio One 3 but I am still going to use it for my VSTs but now I know how to use Impact drum machine in it and other functions I will use it another way. I will mix in Reason 9 and master in S1v3.
So what's your set up going to be?
Loosecaboose wrote:Yeah the MPC live i have pre-ordered for 1399, its now at 1599..
I had a few days to think this through and decided not to cancel my preorder. There really isnt anything out there like these new mpcs. I love standalone devices and I work with computers all day and just don't want to come home to make music on computer anymore.
Some standalone samplers I've owned in the past:
Mpc500
Mpc2000
Mpc2500
Ensoniq EPS16+
Ensoniq ASR-X
Akai S20
Akai S1100
Akai S900 (still have this in a shed after it blew up - was going to keep it forever and was so sad when it died)
Akai S612
Roland VP9000 (selling this one - listed right now)
Korg MicroSampler (still have this one -it borked and now only outputs in mono)
Korg ESX
Korg ES2/E2
Roland SP404
I'm hoping the Live is finally the one that gets it all right
If it's as good as it's looking I will get the X too no doubt 