some advise for a newbie

hi there
i was thinking of buying a mpc 2K for my live setup. At the moment i use a laptop connected to a dj mixer playing wavs of my tracks then extra midi stuff being sent to a 909, which in turn is seperated out onto a mackie 1604 with a sherman filter bank akia mfc42 compressor and fx, the output of the mackie then goes to other channel on the dj mixer so i can cut between them.
Anyway i was thinking if i had a mpc i could ditch the wavs on the laptop(maybe ditch the laptop altogether). If i was to cut loops and sequences out of my orginal tracks and load them into a mpc would i be able to 'jam' a bit more with it?
does anyone else use there mpcs in a live enviroment and how do u use them?

I used the MPC live for the 1st time last week. It's more effective if you create the tracks in the MPC. Sampling pre-existing tracks into the MPC might have noticable clicks between sequences. I couldn't imagine using a laptop for sequncing. I enjoyed using the MPC live so I could change sequences, and even improvise on the drum pads live. I also use a 909 that I can program via the MPC and a keyboard. I was just listening back to the recording of the show this morning and the mixer in the MPC worked great. Stereo out to a mixer and voila. track mutes are easy, and changing sequences is rather painless, I find the sudden feature a tad too abrupt. But if you have midi instruments and an MPC it's a very solid live setup. you have to be carefull transporting the MPC 'cause it's a little tempermental with the jog wheel. I think you'd have way more fun jamming with an MPC then a laptop.

ST

i think buying an mpc just to play some live tracks is a bit of a waste. Sure, you can do trackmutes, and add some stuff live, but you can do all of that with Ableton Live too.
I've used the mpc live a couple of times now, and it's rocksolid. But it only makes sense to me if you actually make the tracks on it, instead of just resampling some loops with it.

cheers for the feedback
i think i might get one you know
do u think a mpc 2000 + 909 + mixer + FX + Filters would make a good set up for a live show?
It might be nice to write tracks in a different way with the mpc i could use basic elements of my exsiting tracks and new stuff done on the mpc...it would also make a slight difference between my studio output and the live preformances
what do u think

That sounds like a kick arse live setup, man. I would say, however, just remember that an MPC is not liket he ultimate sampler as far as the engine. It's not like a laptop where you can just drag stuff in and start pushing loops around. But, if you spend a little extra time sound designing at home, you will have more expressive performances. Certainly, you could also get what's called SAMPLETANK, for use with cubase or protools. This has an onscreen 'pad' setup like the mpc, with a few extra filters and stuff. You open a menu, put a sound in, assign a midi chanel to that 'pad' or slot, and tweek it...viola! You can trigger with a keyboard, tweek w/ knobs etc. But the MPC has separate outputs, so to rival that for tweeking on the board, you would have to go with a more serious softsampler like gigasampler, etc, and buy a compatible card with multi outs. It sound like you know what you are doing, just want to get a different feel on stage. So hey, try it out, and if not, return it and get a firewire breakoput for the laptop. Six of one, 1/2 of another; depends on what comes off the dopest on stage and how comfortable you can be with a particular interface. Rock on..

Thats it.
i'm off to buy one
i think i'll be back on this board alot in the future
thanks again
robin