assignable outputs

re: sound quality,

i was just thinkin off the top of my head, but it seems that on many analog mixers, you may pan hard left but theres a bit of leakage to the right channel for example. Plus probably some very subtle inductance/crosstalk something or other stuff.

whereas, if correctly implemented, a hard left pan should give you the _identical_ signal on left channel and _exactly_ nothing on the right channel.


oh and good point about using stereo samples, yeah that is a limitation... of course, if you really wanted a stereo sample you probably wouldn't be trying to route it to a single channel.

Well I did it.
I picked up an MPC1k.

The first I did was take a program from my 2k xl and load it in.

I played with the outputs, and utilizing the weird "pan" method, I don't seem to be losing any signal or tone. So yeah, as long as its hard panned it works fine and it doesn't bleed to the other outputs. Aside from the difference in response of the pads (1k vs 2k xl), it sounds nearly identical.

Now for the big decision... which MPC stays and which goes (1k vs 2k xl)