as the resident pad man, tehre are a couple things i need to address here.
MPC is the last thing I would buy second hand unless knowing it belonged to a rich kid who never really used it.
if you're handy and don't mind learning to solder, buying a banged up mpc 1000 could save you a couple hundred dollars if you convince the kid that he really messed it up. even if not, the odds are you're gonna have to get in there someday to fix something, so start early if it saves you money.
So many people bang on those poor sensors like there is no tomorrow,but it if you use it sensitively i think they might hold quite long. And ;so many hardware malfunction topics get blown up in proportions on the net.
the issue is not with force of playing the pads, its in the construction of most mpc1000 pads. they will go bad. the four dots of glue securing the black square to the sensor WILL loosen and the conductive square will get loose. and then you have a "broken" pad. this isn't just being blown up on the net, this is just what happens to factory mpc1000s.
You will discover that many issues are non issues, unless youre really unlucky.
THIS is the truth, though. technically, i could have been working on music for the last 2 weeks using tin foil instead of my black squares, but i've decided to wait until the materials come to fix it. that's cost me time, and had i known how much time it'd cost, i would have left the tin foil on and kept playing until it arrived.
actually i was thinkin about maybe getting a 2500 if the price drops and there is a jj os
both an absolute necessity before that machine begins to poke me with a stick
what in the hell where they thinkin at akai?!