Questions about the mpc 5000: shoot

Not to jump subject but anyone have a firm update when the mpc5k will be released for sure? I called the sale department and spoke with a lady and she said it will be the end of may maybe the first of june before it hit the states. When I asked her why the push back she said cosmetic change ups according to her email and she get new updates every monday and to continue to check back.

It's already in stores in some areas.

sweetwater got some in today.... but they were reserved for their pre order cust

i guess i pre ordered from the wrong company....
i'm still going to grab the first one that i can get my hands on

http://www.parkaveelectronics.com/produ ... &l=Froogle

Nothing on ebay so far.

mjames4208 wrote:sweetwater got some in today.... but they were reserved for their pre order cust

They are just one of several companies I placed a pre-order with. I did this back in early Feb.....I can't wait to get my "sales engineer" on the phone eary tomorrow!

I know GC in san fran got few models in stock

Askia Shaheed wrote:

mjames4208 wrote:sweetwater got some in today.... but they were reserved for their pre order cust

They are just one of several companies I placed a pre-order with. I did this back in early Feb.....I can't wait to get my "sales engineer" on the phone eary tomorrow!

Co-sign! I preorder mine with musiciansfriend first week of febuary and still have not received mine. Hearing others saying they got there make me feel like I preorder with the wrong company. $hit I can't wait to get mine.

DO U EVEN NEED A MIXER?IF U GOT THE 5K?ALSO DO U EVEN NEED A DJ MIXER 4 UR TABLE?IF U DONT ID TRADE MY SHIT QUICK MY DJ MIXER AND 1K....I BEEN OUT OF THE NET CAUSE I DONT GOT MY COMP..I SEEN THIS TODAY AND WOW THE 5K LOOKS KILLA

P.S. I GOT NO INFO IM LOOKING AT ALL THIS THREW MY CHEAP PHONE...IM GUESSING I STILL NEED MY AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MY COMPUTER THO

MESSAGE OF TRUTH wrote:DO U EVEN NEED A MIXER?IF U GOT THE 5K?ALSO DO U EVEN NEED A DJ MIXER 4 UR TABLE?IF U DONT ID TRADE MY **** QUICK MY DJ MIXER AND 1K....I BEEN OUT OF THE NET CAUSE I DONT GOT MY COMP..I SEEN THIS TODAY AND WOW THE 5K LOOKS KILLA

P.S. I GOT NO INFO IM LOOKING AT ALL THIS THREW MY CHEAP PHONE...IM GUESSING I STILL NEED MY AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MY COMPUTER THO

Use small letters next time no caps please you are yelling.

MESSAGE OF TRUTH wrote:DO U EVEN NEED A MIXER?IF U GOT THE 5K?ALSO DO U EVEN NEED A DJ MIXER 4 UR TABLE?IF U DONT ID TRADE MY **** QUICK MY DJ MIXER AND 1K....I BEEN OUT OF THE NET CAUSE I DONT GOT MY COMP..I SEEN THIS TODAY AND WOW THE 5K LOOKS KILLA

P.S. I GOT NO INFO IM LOOKING AT ALL THIS THREW MY CHEAP PHONE...IM GUESSING I STILL NEED MY AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MY COMPUTER THO

Well, no MPC is a substitute for the job of the DJ. It does have Turntable inputs, but if you want to cut and scratch it up in conjunction with using the MPC, you'd still need your mixer.

Although with your Q-Links you could rig a way to kinda do it.

MUSIII wrote:

MESSAGE OF TRUTH wrote:DO U EVEN NEED A MIXER?IF U GOT THE 5K?ALSO DO U EVEN NEED A DJ MIXER 4 UR TABLE?IF U DONT ID TRADE MY **** QUICK MY DJ MIXER AND 1K....I BEEN OUT OF THE NET CAUSE I DONT GOT MY COMP..I SEEN THIS TODAY AND WOW THE 5K LOOKS KILLA

P.S. I GOT NO INFO IM LOOKING AT ALL THIS THREW MY CHEAP PHONE...IM GUESSING I STILL NEED MY AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MY COMPUTER THO

Well, no MPC is a substitute for the job of the DJ. It does have Turntable inputs, but if you want to cut and scratch it up in conjunction with using the MPC, you'd still need your mixer.

Although with your Q-Links you could rig a way to kinda do it.

I think he means to record a loop for a record into a 5k and the answer is no you don`t need a dj mixer to record just hook it directly to the phono input on back. But if you want to do a live set and whatnot then do as MUSII suggested.

scd wrote: I want to enter a feature request myself as well, because it would be handy to be able to switch between "jump" changing the values as soon as you touch a controller and "pickup" changing the values that only starts changing values as soon as you reached the original value with moving the controller.

Hello SCD.
I just wanted to second that suggestion. Its an important feature sadly missing on many synths. Although i dont think that "pickup" is the best solution. Ive worked with synths that uses "pickup" and it is sometimes rather confusing in the heat of a live situation. Instead i favor how its done on Quasimidi Polymorph, were they have a knob mode called "relative" which recalculates the knob traveldistance. If, for example, the actual parameter value is 20 but the physical knob is set at 100, then when turning the knob from 100 to 0 the parameter value will smoothly change from 20 to 0. Or if you turn the other way (physical knob from 100-127) the parameter value will smoothly change from 20-127. This works very well in practise.

Another easier solution is like its done on Yamaha RS700: when you hold down shift all knobs are "muted" so you can manually turn the knob to desired positioning before tweaking. Should be very easy to implement.

Well, either of these or pickup modes would be a welcome addition. I hope you can ask for one of these features on "the bug list". Thanks for your dedication!
/manneokoko

Hello.

Ive never worked with a MPC but am now considering the 5000. My question is how fast it is to work with. Is it possible to jump in and out of diffrent rec modes (grid, stepedit, realtime etc) while the sequencer is still running? I hate it on the roland boxes where you have to stop before you can enter record mode. And what about other aspects of the machine, can i have the sequencer running at all time or do i have to stop it alot (when editing samples, setting upp pads etc. etc.)? Does it save/load fast, are the menus fast (some machines you have to wait a second or two when shifting pages which kills "the flow" of work)?.
What im looking for is a machine that is as fast as the electribe's but with more features.

Also, scd, can you upload some of those mp3's were you demo the VA synth again? All links are broken. Thanks!

//Manneokoko

^^I'm pretty sure this scd cat is never coming back. Shame, he was the only good beta tester we had.