Instead of stepping backwards through time, I suggest you follow some of these cats' advice and seek out an alternative. You stepping back to the 60 is like asking someone to step back to one of those old nappy 486 computers.
I don't know about everyone else, but making beats is something I do as a side ting until I can put more time into it and move it to the next level. It doesn't pay my bills. My 9-5 is working at an electronic service depot servicing...electronic musical instruments; among those, the MPCs that we all use. The 60 is already over 10 years old, and I fear for those that have one...take care of it well and maintain it, cause once it goes faulty, you can feel free to dash it in the nearest garbage can. Parts cannot be replaced, only repaired. And you don't want to know what the labor bill is gonna be like for fixing that.
You don't move backwards with anything electronic. That's the rule. Your 2000 is just fine. Here is something I did to achieve dirty sound. I had an old Roland VP-9000 with all the capacitors burnt up (lightning strike). That unit was like $4Gs when it came out. I soldered in some replacement caps and BAM...$20.00 for a resurrected VP processor. The thing has 50 effects inside, among those...a bit converter for downsampling (allows you to control everything from sample rate to filtering etc.). you can find old VPs for like $400 now.
I don't have a flexible budget where I can keep swapping gear like a stickshift, and I don't think most of us do. You have to be smart about your selections. Everything you got is an investment. Stop following what this man is using and what that man is using. I ain't them...you ain't them. I use what I know how to use, so should you.
Even the masters got to change their gear sometime. For the pros, learning curves cost money, that's why most of them use antiquated gear like a 60. They know it, they use it, they don't have time to learn new stuff. Each day they spend with lack of knowledge costs money. That is until they come to a repair man like me and I perform the last rites on their gear. Then they MUST learn a new piece of gear.
Someone said something about the change of quality in manufacturing from then to now. That doesn't apply here, this stuff is made in Japan (check your boxes). Very strict quality controls. Japanese companies don't fire workers. The bad worker gets lick down and karate chop right there in the factory...brushed off, cleaned up and put right back on the assembly line again. (A little humor still)
Big up Swissmaster, MPC_Pro and Prah, they got the right idea; it ain't the gear, it's the user. If you really want to modify your sound, you could without shifting gear out. Improvise. The sampling to tape is a wicked way to do that. (It slipped my mind for a second)
I humbly apologize for the short story here, but this is the straight goods. Research your alternatives, find a solution, there's nuff workarounds out there. My personal advice, score a VP-9000. It is perhaps the best piece of cheap processing gear out there still.
Take heart, the Shadow knows.
Highest respect to all seen.
