Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000

By ddot_SFV Wed May 11, 2005 3:03 am
Onedependent, its all love. Unfortunately one of my many character flaws is that I'm a hot-head. At first I thought you were tryin' to play me for a jerk or something. I also make records for a living. I happen to like the sound of my focusrite, i also like the sound of my manley vox box. Two different sounds, two different tools.

By Onedependent Wed May 11, 2005 3:31 am
i talked to a couple cats that didnt like the low-mid grade Fsrite stuff much. A friend of mine that did the older roots joints said that he has one that he swears by tho, That was one of the ultra high end fsrite pres though, he said it was like 3g of some crazy number for 2 chnls. the lower end stuff is not as good as other stuff you can get in that price range in my opinion, (RNP, RNC) but this cat loves his unit, didnt get the details on the name though. so much for details.enough about pres,


mpc 4000s seem to be getting more and more rare. akai has not been producing them much at all. Appereantly, they are in the middle of moving all of the production to china and havent made anything but 1000s and the pads. the 4s are last of their interest to get started on , i guess. GC inNYC doesnt have any on display or instock and hasnt had any in months, 8th street in phill doesnt have any, zzounds.... I dont know if they are on hold or what.

Anyhow, I hope that they dont give up on updating the ak sys program. getting used to using a software interface for a hardware tool and then having to deal with a company that stops making that software gets disenfanchising.

By ddot_SFV Wed May 11, 2005 3:41 am
Last word on pres. %100 agreed on the mid-grade focusrite stuff. Stay away from the mid-level green and silver stuff if possible.

By blackrome Wed May 11, 2005 6:45 am
I paid 1499.
Barely used from a Music Go-Round.
It was supposed to be the stripped down model but when I got it it had everything included. 80 gig HD / Ram and CD burner installed.
Summer of 2003.
At that time everyone was hating on the machine. I love haters.

By jbplaya Wed May 11, 2005 7:00 am
$1600 for mine with 60 gb hard drive, cd-rw, sample cd's, the works off of the bay. Fighting the temptation to turn around and sell it for a profit. Gotta calm the hustler within.

By BIG_EFF Wed May 11, 2005 11:50 am
Got mine in the Summer of 2003 for $1959 including shipping off of ebay. It came with the hard drive and the CD-rom. It even had 272 MB of RAM installed. It's been working like a charm since and it's only crashed once. And updating to the new OS's has been glitch-free and I'm extremely happy with it running currently on 1.70...

ByRobinL Fri May 13, 2005 2:13 pm
Got mine a couple of months ago here in sweden for about 1800 $ ..

It came with 8 outs, 80 gb harddrive, efx board,512 mb, a 90 $ mini usb keyboard:P..and a couple of sample cds.

cheap considering a new one at the shop cost like 4000 $ ( 28 000 skr )without any expansions here.