By marceloasherq
Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:59 am
Hello!
I met someone who is selling at MPC2000 for $300 and a MPC2500 for $475 (or $675 for both).
I have never used a sampler/beat machine before, so I have a few learning curves to climb. I've been doing a lot of research and trying to amalgamate information on what would be most suitable and what mods would be needed in order to make what I'm trying to do work.
Perhaps posting here would be a more efficient way to go about figuring this out, haha, since so far I just keep running into more questions and more time spent researching.
So, I was turned on to the MPC units after watching a video on Helado Negro — he uses the 2000XL.
I'm in an experimental project with one other person, but mainly by myself at the moment. I used to have a drummer but he lives elsewhere.
I play guitar (through a lot of effects and sometimes with an omnichord involved) and sing, but want to fill out my sound by creating backing rhythms (with added textural elements) that I can trigger live. At the moment I sometimes use the Omnichord as a rhythm section, putting it through my pedalboard and adding delay and harmonizing to make the beat more interesting, loop it, and then play/sing over that. But the Omnichord doesn't do 5/4, and is overall fairly limited for rhythm, even with the added effects.
Both of the units this individual is selling are maxed out on RAM, but the 2000 has the floppy drive. Am I right to assume that the 2000 would not be suitable for my purposes for this reason? I read somewhere that the floppy disks only hold 6 minutes of mono, and so having a whole set would require a mess of disks, I imagine, which wouldn't really work well. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
My inspirations are artists like Radiohead, Of Montreal, Tune-Yards, Helado Negro, Moses Sumney, etc., and so I tend to gravitate toward older gear with more sonic character — thus my interest in the MPC2000. Does the 2500 still carry some of this old school charm?
Anyway, it's super late and my brain is melting from looking all over the inter webs for the answer to my litany of questions, and the list continues to grow as I learn about other options within the MPC units (hot swappable or not, zip or CF, internal or external memory, etc. etc. etc. etc.).
Thanks so much for taking the time to read my screed. Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks!
Sincerely,
MQ
I met someone who is selling at MPC2000 for $300 and a MPC2500 for $475 (or $675 for both).
I have never used a sampler/beat machine before, so I have a few learning curves to climb. I've been doing a lot of research and trying to amalgamate information on what would be most suitable and what mods would be needed in order to make what I'm trying to do work.
Perhaps posting here would be a more efficient way to go about figuring this out, haha, since so far I just keep running into more questions and more time spent researching.
So, I was turned on to the MPC units after watching a video on Helado Negro — he uses the 2000XL.
I'm in an experimental project with one other person, but mainly by myself at the moment. I used to have a drummer but he lives elsewhere.
I play guitar (through a lot of effects and sometimes with an omnichord involved) and sing, but want to fill out my sound by creating backing rhythms (with added textural elements) that I can trigger live. At the moment I sometimes use the Omnichord as a rhythm section, putting it through my pedalboard and adding delay and harmonizing to make the beat more interesting, loop it, and then play/sing over that. But the Omnichord doesn't do 5/4, and is overall fairly limited for rhythm, even with the added effects.
Both of the units this individual is selling are maxed out on RAM, but the 2000 has the floppy drive. Am I right to assume that the 2000 would not be suitable for my purposes for this reason? I read somewhere that the floppy disks only hold 6 minutes of mono, and so having a whole set would require a mess of disks, I imagine, which wouldn't really work well. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
My inspirations are artists like Radiohead, Of Montreal, Tune-Yards, Helado Negro, Moses Sumney, etc., and so I tend to gravitate toward older gear with more sonic character — thus my interest in the MPC2000. Does the 2500 still carry some of this old school charm?
Anyway, it's super late and my brain is melting from looking all over the inter webs for the answer to my litany of questions, and the list continues to grow as I learn about other options within the MPC units (hot swappable or not, zip or CF, internal or external memory, etc. etc. etc. etc.).
Thanks so much for taking the time to read my screed. Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks!
Sincerely,
MQ