HOW YA'LL FEEL BOUT THE MPC 500!

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Not sure really... I tend to use my MPC1000 more and think I enjoy the Roland SP-404 more for portable use. I haven't sold my 500 yet...but I'mn thinking about it. It's a cool machine... but...

how much u tryin 2 sell it 4?

Yoshimi wrote:Not sure really... I tend to use my MPC1000 more and think I enjoy the Roland SP-404 more for portable use. I haven't sold my 500 yet...but I'mn thinking about it. It's a cool machine... but...

I kinda feel the same way...but I'm not trying to sell mine. Although I do use my 2500 mainly. I'm curious to see what Akai or even JJ will do with the OS.


The 500 is a sick little sampler/sequencer!!1

I like mine quite a bit. It's a reasonably powerful machine all things considered, and it gets me away from sitting in front of the computer screen.

There are a few things that bug me about the MPC500 on a daily basis, #1 these days is the loop implementation. Seems crazy to me that you can set a loop start point, but not a loop end point, so you can't create sustained sounds easily with it (or at least sustained sounds with a release stage). It's still early in the 500's life cycle though, so maybe Akai will beef up the OS a little.

One thing I just noticed this week on the comparison chart on Akai's site is that they have the 500 listed as having high/band/lowpass filters. Wonder why they went to market with only the lowpass, when that chart is probably an indication that they had planned to go multimode originally.

Yeah, I find looping a pain. I will loop things up in either my 303, or on my computer and put them back on the mpc.

The 500 is really good.
It just need a new OS.

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sighup wrote:Seems crazy to me that you can set a loop start point, but not a loop end point, so you can't create sustained sounds easily with it (or at least sustained sounds with a release stage). It's still early in the 500's life cycle though, so maybe Akai will beef up the OS a little.

I initially freaked out when I bought a 2000xl a long time because I was used to standard s1000/5000/6000 rack samplers which have a sustain and release stage with loop points.

But correct me if I am wrong, none of the mpc's have sustain and release in the envelope, just attack and decay right? because it is a drum sampler?

I am possible parting with my s5000 rack sampler, but now I am starting to panic because I know I will need to make samples that loop for awhile then fade out nicely, but I don't feel like lugging a massive rack sampler to a gig.

nadafarm wrote:But correct me if I am wrong, none of the mpc's have sustain and release in the envelope, just attack and decay right? because it is a drum sampler?

I'm reasonably sure it works on the 4000, since it lets you assign a loop end point, but I'm not sure about other models.

I can live without a release stage, and can work around it for the most part. My main reason for using the 500 isn't so much as a drum sampler as having a sampler I can cart around easily, which I guess is why it didn't really occur to me that release might not be there.

But correct me if I am wrong, none of the mpc's have sustain and release in the envelope, just attack and decay right? because it is a drum sampler?

one thing people forget is that the sequencer allows you to emulate sustain and release. if you sequence a small chop right, you can create an asdr from within the sequencer rather than just one from the pad.

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one thing people forget is that the sequencer allows you to emulate sustain and release. if you sequence a small chop right, you can create an asdr from within the sequencer rather than just one from the pad.[/quote]

Can you explain this better, I don't understand what you mean by using the seq. to make and adsr... thanks