new in the game...question time!

Hey whats going on, im trying to come up on a mpc and i dont know exactly what to get. Either a xl with a 100 meg zip drive or a studio plus. Basically im trying to make the best quality shit possible. Any advice would be much appreciated.

The MPC2000 and MPC2000xl have a scsi port on the back of the unit.
Even if you get one that has only a floppy drive, you could eventually get a Hard drive, cd drive, and a zip drive to connect to your scsi.

I run Two cd drives and a hard drive.

do a google search for wavs, samples sounds ect. Burn to a CD, and plug it in!

Both machines are more than capable to help you reach that higher level of "beat making". I would get the xl with the zip, and find ram on the internet and install it yourself. Once you get it you gotta practice and the beats will come.

i have a question.....if you already have a computer do u still need the ram? and if so,what is the ram for??? sorry im still new to this sh*t..thanks

you'll want to get the ram for your mpc. its for your internal sampling time. i forget how much sampling time the mpc ships with... something small like 10 seconds. with a couple of cheap sticks of ram you can blow that up to a few minutes!

whatever you do make sure you get one with 8 outputs. if you ever get to the point where you need to record in a studio you're going to need it. may as well cop it now. the studio plus version is the one with the 8 outputs AND the effect board isnt it? i dont know much about the effects board.

aces wrote:Hey whats going on, im trying to come up on a mpc and i dont know exactly what to get. Either a xl with a 100 meg zip drive or a studio plus. Basically im trying to make the best quality **** possible. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I would get the studio plus. Does the studio plus come with floppy, if so that's cool. The regular xl only comes with zip, am I reading into your post correctly? To upgrade the studio (w/flp) all you will need is the RAM and ZIP right? That's less than $100 if you look around.

To upgrade the regular XL (w/ ZIP), you will spend way more than $100 on getting an 8-out board and EB16. You feel me on that?

Both will need RAM unless you already got it installed. RAM is cheap.

alright thanks bro. And what kind of shit can i do with the studio plus that i cant with the reg xl. More effects and more ports?

aces wrote:alright thanks bro. And what kind of **** can i do with the studio plus that i cant with the reg xl. More effects and more ports?

Regular XL doesn't come with 8out, efx board and digital IO.
Your right, more efx and more ports..