the 500 a future classic?

No no your right the 500 uses the finest components

Look its obvious that the 500 is cheaply built, if you believe otherwise then you must not have had any experience on any other of the MPC's. I've personally used all except the 5000. If I had to choose for "classic" I would favor the 2500 over my 1000 but again thats my OPINION (something you must not have a concept of). The 500 is not built like a 1000 its not a 2500 or anything close to its big brothers. Its the cheap way to get yourself an MPC. Look at the price/limited features and overall feel of the machine. Cry all you want but as far as my pockets go I wouldnt spend any money on a 500 let alone call it a classic.

AND.....

Again i dont know why you post in here also.

Because its a PUBLIC forum homie. Just because you dont like what I say I shouldnt post in the 500 section? What are we segregated by the equipment we use. WOW arent all that bright eh? Stop crying already man, I think the 500 is wak so what....you own one...if you think its so dope pay me no mind

no ones crying mate, get over yourself already sunshine. As for me not being bright, ok, if you say so, i've many years in the industry and a string of releases, own labels etc, but yeah whatever.

phono wrote:i've many years in the industry and a string of releases, own labels etc, but yeah whatever.

all those years of experience and you splurged for the 500 eh? Business must be bangin...cmon now

Anyhow Im done here. You havent proved any point other than the fact that my opinion (which varies from yours) makes your emotions come out. Its cool. We got a few of you guys around here. I'm out catch yall on Vol 2. Hey maybe you could bless us with some of those releases on the mixtape......ha ha ha yea I'll be waiting....

lol, actually i got it mad cheap, and case in point, your comments about fischer price, well i hate to tell you but the 1000 was the one with the crap sensors, and the as for the rest internally theres hardly any difference hardware wise.

but sure akai made all new parts for the 500

p.s. did i mention i've built my own synths?



anyway im not even going to bother replying to you anymore, since you are obviously just a troll and feed of shit like this, enjoy your myspace listeners

in case you are curious one of my labels is here, no need for a mixtape

http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/se ... ndout=both

phono wrote:p.s. did i mention i've built my own synths?

PS did I tell you nobody asked. You keep dodging the subject because your argument is based on feelings its ok you just put your emotions in your pocket and walk home in the rain because your looking real lame right about now . This was about the 500 but you made it personal and cant hang. Good luck with that "label" homie. Maybe you can get a few sales and get your own website one day....lololol.


P.S. dont start a pissing contest if your just gonna get pissed off and pissed on...lolol

more breeze notice most of them sold out

ok guys, that's enough..

who cares who's business is selling more copies and who owns more.


but on the note of the 500 again,

Some guy said they should have made an internal recharable battery, but I want to say, yes I agree... how ever dont remove the option to use the normal batteries because if you are on the go or traveling let's say on a bus somewhere far... and your recharable battery runs out, then what?



And owning labels doesn't mean shit, cause anyone can start one and have it registered. Making quality sh1t that's original is something worthy of respect.

I don't see any difference in build quality between the 500 and the 1000. Like phono said, we're not the ones with the pad problems.

I keep my 500 sitting on a small, almost stool-like table. I move it all around my room and when I'm working on it, I often tilt it over while I sit on my stool and bang on it. I can move it over to my drum machines easily, or right next to my turntable with a stack of vinyl. I could move it over to my Mac if I wanted and have it MIDIed up with Logic through my Firebox. Portability doesn't just mean going outside of your house.

Limited outs? I don't care. I don't have room for a large mixer anyway, and I don't hzve much of a problem getting the levels right through the MPC's own mixer.

Small LCD? Well, that cuts down on the overall size. I don't have room for something as large as the 2000, 2500, or 5000 and even if I did, I'd loose the in-room portability I like.

Lack of chop shop? I wouldn't want to do intricate chops on any of the MPC's tiny screens anyway, not when I can load my samples up on my 20" widescreen and use Recycle and rex2mpc to convert them into Akai .PGM files.

12 vs 16 pads? It's just a matter of learning how to organize your samples different as well as pad banks.

Batteries? I quit buying anything except rechargeable a few years ago, and rechargeable AAs are dirt cheap.

A lot of machines that were initially considered garbage became cult classics like I dunno, the 303, the 808, the 909. I mean, if we want to speak merely quantitatively the SP1200 is a piece of shit (again, speaking purely quantitatively). But as we all know, finding the optimum machine isn't all about matching specs and feature sets side by side; it's a personal workflow.

bedouin wrote:I don't see any difference in build quality between the 500 and the 1000. Like phono said, we're not the ones with the pad problems.

I keep my 500 sitting on a small, almost stool-like table. I move it all around my room and when I'm working on it, I often tilt it over while I sit on my stool and bang on it. I can move it over to my drum machines easily, or right next to my turntable with a stack of vinyl. I could move it over to my Mac if I wanted and have it MIDIed up with Logic through my Firebox. Portability doesn't just mean going outside of your house.

Limited outs? I don't care. I don't have room for a large mixer anyway, and I don't hzve much of a problem getting the levels right through the MPC's own mixer.

Small LCD? Well, that cuts down on the overall size. I don't have room for something as large as the 2000, 2500, or 5000 and even if I did, I'd loose the in-room portability I like.

Lack of chop shop? I wouldn't want to do intricate chops on any of the MPC's tiny screens anyway, not when I can load my samples up on my 20" widescreen and use Recycle and rex2mpc to convert them into Akai .PGM files.

12 vs 16 pads? It's just a matter of learning how to organize your samples different as well as pad banks.

Batteries? I quit buying anything except rechargeable a few years ago, and rechargeable AAs are dirt cheap.

A lot of machines that were initially considered garbage became cult classics like I dunno, the 303, the 808, the 909. I mean, if we want to speak merely quantitatively the SP1200 is a piece of **** (again, speaking purely quantitatively). But as we all know, finding the optimum machine isn't all about matching specs and feature sets side by side; it's a personal workflow.

I meant recharhable internal batteries like someone suggested. Like you need to plug it into something to recharge it...

the fact that you can bring a pack of batteries with you is better for traveling far where a plug is not an option.

I have the 500 and i think it's dope. BUT it is not a future classic. It's just another sampler with standard features. I can't se any magical about the mpc-line of equipment, but the 1000 is the most likely to be the future classic because of the prise VS capability (JJOS). If akai threw some granular synthesis in this tiny box it would have a bigger chance as a future classic!

Also, the Roland TB-303 is not greatly build, but became a great future classic!
Think about that!

Somebody said the 500 is made with cheap material in opposite with the 1000 or 2500.
It's wrong. The 500 use the same pads as the 2500 and the new 1000 w/new pads.All the buttoms are the same as in the 1000 and 2500. And the elctronics inside heve the same components. The main problem of the 500 respect the other mpc, is that with the escuse of the dimension and that is the little brother of the 1000, they sacrified some features that are important in a machine like mpc. I repeat, the lcd is ridiculous. I had a 1000 before the 500 and then i bought again the 1000 and is incredible how the workflow change between the two machines. I think the 500 could have been a really great machine with a lcd that could show the graphic of the wave, where you could see how to chop a sample etc...The feeling i had with these machine, is that it allows you to do a lot of things maybe everything an mpc could offer apart from choping, but the lcd limits everything and that's a pity.

People complain about the small screen and lack of waveform editing on the 500, but if they added such a thing it would cut into 1000 sales big time. Akai would never do it unless in dire straits. There's really no way to have a bigger LCD and keep the 500's form factor anyway.

bedouin wrote:People complain about the small screen and lack of waveform editing on the 500, but if they added such a thing it would cut into 1000 sales big time. Akai would never do it unless in dire straits. There's really no way to have a bigger LCD and keep the 500's form factor anyway.

And a sidenote....9th wonder won a grammy using fl studio, its not the machine its the user. Think about it.

thats been said so many times, but its good to repeat cas its best thing to say when people bag on the 500.

f*ckin jay dee made donuts on a 303, thats another great example. the 500 has the capabilites to become a classic, it just depends on what major artist loves to use it, and what kinda stuff he creates with it

i don't think the mpc500 is classic in the sense of the word as used on this forum. clearly the classic akai machines are the 2000xl and the s950.

what is also so obnoxiously forgotten on this forum is that the mpc is a computer. don't let the user interface fool you, the mpc is and always has been just as much a computer as any laptop. this is the reality of the future that will determine what is or is not classic.

and in the future there isn't much room for computers that hook up to computers. with all this talk about hooking up the 500 to a computer, what's the practical sense of hooking up one computer to another. it ‘s much more practical to hook up a controlled to a computer. (akai knows this and is making some really great controllers.) the mpc isn't analog, it's a computer, with pads. and you spend thousands of dollars on it, but you cant even check your email. we may soon witness the discontinuation of the mpc hardware line, and a focus on software. look at moog. analog legends, what do they do know? the release software.

the mpc does have one thing going for it. and even though it sort of contradicts my whole vision for akai's future, the mpc is one of the first 'beat machines' to be considered an instrument. what other drum machine can be played 'artistically' what type of machine, other than a playable sampler could possibly revolutionize the way live music is preformed. if the computer is the instrument of the future, the mpc500 may be the first major step to that end. i'm not the only one who bought the 1/2K for live performance.