BREAKING NEWS: MPC60 SAMPLING DRUM MACHINE RELEASED

Here is a list of some of the advanced features of the MPC60:

• Small, portable design - fits easily under your arm.
• Large 320 character LCD display (8 lines by 40 characters) with
graphics.
• Built-in 3 1/2" disk drive stores both sequence and sound data.
• Fast, easy to understand operation provided by large screen and logical,
intuitive design.
• Interactive "Help" function, providing a full paragraph of
explanation for each data field of every function screen.
• 4 "soft keys" provide one button execution of many functions
without additional dedicated buttons.
• The contents of all data fields and other minor settings are retained
while the power is turned off, so there is no need to reset commonly
used parameters each time the power is turned on.
• Large memory capacity: 512K bytes sequence RAM, 768K bytes sampling
RAM (expandable to 1.5 megabytes sampling RAM), 256K bytes program
ROM.
• Very fast internal 10 MHz 80186 16 bit microprocessor.

cool! what's the MSRP supposed to be?

Im all over it!!!

Im all over it!!! duude i heard it uses floppy disk they are expensive these days...

lol

finally... i been saving up for this

peezie wrote:finally... i been saving up for this

You've been saving? Even though I really love beats, I find it so hard to save money for a machine... could someone please just give me one? I would really like that?

earwolf wrote:Here is a list of some of the advanced features of the MPC60:

• Small, portable design - fits easily under your arm.
• Large 320 character LCD display (8 lines by 40 characters) with
graphics.
• Built-in 3 1/2" disk drive stores both sequence and sound data.
• Fast, easy to understand operation provided by large screen and logical,
intuitive design.
• Interactive "Help" function, providing a full paragraph of
explanation for each data field of every function screen.
• 4 "soft keys" provide one button execution of many functions
without additional dedicated buttons.
• The contents of all data fields and other minor settings are retained
while the power is turned off, so there is no need to reset commonly
used parameters each time the power is turned on.
• Large memory capacity: 512K bytes sequence RAM, 768K bytes sampling
RAM (expandable to 1.5 megabytes sampling RAM), 256K bytes program
ROM.
• Very fast internal 10 MHz 80186 16 bit microprocessor.

1.5 Megs and 10Mhz processor??????? This will NEVER catch on!!!

Why would you need all that memory and processing power???

You musicians are spoiled these days!!!

This guy here keeps talking about an MPC3000. What is he talking about?????...

The forerunner to the MPC3000 was the MPC60 drum sampler/rhythm programmer, a powerful piece of equipment that I never felt achieved the reputation it deserved in this country. There was also the ASQ10, which contained the sequencing component of the MPC60 without the drum sampling facilities. I owned an ASQ10 myself for a time, and now I kick myself that I let it go. At the time I was seduced by computer sequencing and didn't have the foresight to realise that I could have run both types of MIDI sequencer side by side and had the best of both worlds. The Akai units are particularly good for drum programming, as you might expect, and computer sequencers find it hard to keep up. I found only two drawbacks to the ASQ10 (after the software had reached a mature version), one of which was that it frequently had to take time out at length to 'analyse the sequence'. The MPC3000 uses a faster processor, so this isn't a problem. I'll mention the other drawback later, since it is retained in the MPC3000, but I will say that I now find it less of a problem and more a part of the character of the machine.

LOL, yeah right! "MPC3000", that's like 5 times an MPC60.

I don't believe it. Have you seen the specs on an MPC60? I don't think we have the technology to beat that right now.

Next thing you're going to tell me that Akai and Roger Linn contracted NASA to design the processor for the "MPC3000". Yeah right.

This "MPC3000" is just an Urban Legend right up there with the "MPC1000"(which is only 1 and 2/3 times the MPC60) and its supposed "OS 2.0" upgrade.

Just how gullible do you think we are?

MKIII

BassLINE wrote:LOL, yeah right! "MPC3000", that's like 5 times an MPC60.

Damn, just got back from gettin put up on some math ish from some Grade 4 kids....

The "MPC3000" is 50 times the MPC60!!!! Whoa!!! Like...whoa!!!!!

BassLINE wrote:

BassLINE wrote:LOL, yeah right! "MPC3000", that's like 5 times an MPC60.

The "MPC3000" is 50 times the MPC60!!!! Whoa!!! Like...whoa!!!!!

DUUUDE I need a part time job so I can afford MORE FLOPPIES!!!! I wonder can it use the old 5.25 flopps? I got tons of those.

DEEPDOWNINSIDE wrote:DUUUDE I need a part time job so I can afford MORE FLOPPIES!!!! I wonder can it use the old 5.25 flopps? I got tons of those.

Call me a heretic and request i be burned at the stake but here goes....

Can you imagine if one day...this mcp or pcm or mpc60 thingamejig becomes a 'retro-classic'....and design spin-offs from it start carrying 'Flash-memory' slotomizations?...

er..wait...sir, hold on...they may not be able to handle that you've seen the future.....