Trading my blue mcd 2000xl for a mpc 3000

im new here and im thinking of switching my mpc 2000xl i have the blue one with the card reader. well someone has offered me a mpc 3000 for cheap and im thinking of selling my 2000xl to get the 3000. should i do it i hear the 3000 sounds more gritty and has a nice swing to it what do you guys think should i do it.

do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

better yet... whos the guy selling it and how much $$$$??? lol

i would definitely do it


you want beautiful sound? 3000

no one on this forum will tell you to keep your XL lol

im really considering it i wanna see what other ppl say.

if i do get it like anyone know how to clean it up its in good conditon a lil dirty gonna change the pads to just to do it.

anyone else.

anyone else.

well i'd def get it. but i wouldnt sell the 2kxl. thats me though

i cant get it unless i sell my 2kxl

Bottom line first = A dope producer can rock either one and make heat all day, but here is my opinion:

Depends on what you value... The 3000 was designed for professional studio use (to be used in conjunction w/ an SSL, Neve, etc.) and has a warm, fat, punchy sound with that neck snap already calculated into it naturally (when swing is added, it gets better and better). The internal parts are very high quality and some argue that it was the best drum machine ever created.

As technology got cheaper and when Roger Linn left his joint venture with AKAI, they made a cheaper quality MPC targeted at the consumer (MPC 2000). Still in all, the 2000 / 2000 XL (still a dope machine) became probably the most popular MPC because it had a lot more on-board features than the others (60 / 3000) and was more attainable to working musicians. To give you an idea, the MPC 60 came out in 1988 and was $5,000. Calculate inflation and it would be like buying a new car today.

If you can let go of some of the features that the 2000 XL has (visual waveform editing, compact flash, etc.) than the 3000 would be perfect. I usually don't tell dudes to go cop a certain machine just because some other producer uses it, but damn, the MPC 3000 is in the hands of all your favorites (who have enough money to buy them all). Everyone from Dr. Dre to J Dilla to Will.I.AM, Rodney Jerkins, Lil John, DJ Quick, Havoc, on and on and on... These producers buy all the new keyboards, sound modules, vinyl and virtual instruments, but one thing remains the same... the MPC 3000, YOU DO THE MATH!

juice wrote:Bottom line first = A dope producer can rock either one and make heat all day, but here is my opinion:

Depends on what you value... The 3000 was designed for professional studio use (to be used in conjunction w/ an SSL, Neve, etc.) and has a warm, fat, punchy sound with that neck snap already calculated into it naturally (when swing is added, it gets better and better). The internal parts are very high quality and some argue that it was the best drum machine ever created.

As technology got cheaper and when Roger Linn left his joint venture with AKAI, they made a cheaper quality MPC targeted at the consumer (MPC 2000). Still in all, the 2000 / 2000 XL (still a dope machine) became probably the most popular MPC because it had a lot more on-board features than the others (60 / 3000) and was more attainable to working musicians. To give you an idea, the MPC 60 came out in 1988 and was $5,000. Calculate inflation and it would be like buying a new car today.

If you can let go of some of the features that the 2000 XL has (visual waveform editing, compact flash, etc.) than the 3000 would be perfect. I usually don't tell dudes to go cop a certain machine just because some other producer uses it, but damn, the MPC 3000 is in the hands of all your favorites (who have enough money to buy them all). Everyone from Dr. Dre to J Dilla to Will.I.AM, Rodney Jerkins, Lil John, DJ Quick, Havoc, on and on and on... These producers buy all the new keyboards, sound modules, vinyl and virtual instruments, but one thing remains the same... the MPC 3000, YOU DO THE MATH!

ive barely used my 2000xl i basically just got it but when the offere came up it was like damn i wanted it first could you explain to me about adding swing and i dont have a ssl im just gonna be using my keyboards and modules with it.

Lampdog wrote:big hits can be made with both, but with 3k your giving up alot of technology. u hardly used the 2kxl, so you won't miss that technology, go 3k.

Lamp this is true but we all know 3 months from now when he discovers what he lost that may be a different story.
To me the real problem lies in his not having used the XL long.
It's not hard to find clean 3k's like clean 60's so you would be better off sticking with the XL.
After you have used it at least 6 months then revisit the 3k idea, if not you will most likely find that the XL was a better fit to your desired workflow.
It's not about one being better, it that they are different fits.

juice wrote:
To give you an idea, the MPC 60 came out in 1988 and was $5,000. Calculate inflation and it would be like buying a new car today.

The MPC-60 was never $5,000 I don't know why anyone ever started that rumour.

I thought I'd add that the list on the 60 back then was $3299.95

The 3000 is far rarer and will always hold it's value as it is the finest built MPC to date.

i think im gonna get the 3000 because i really dont care dat much about whta im losing im just gonna make drums and make sampled based beats i dont care about the eq filters and stuff ill do that when i bounce to protools in this case you guys think its a good idea.