5K is a winner.

2500 with JJOS2 > 5000

Nuff said...


+1

MPC5000 with JJOS4.5 > ALL!!!

oneday2one wrote:

2500 with JJOS2 > 5000

Nuff said...


+1

MPC5000 with JJOS4.5 > ALL!!!

The MPC 500 has a more stable OS. LMAO

It will be over a decade till Akai gets their sh1t together for the 5000 or probably wont...

kneebone77 wrote:I never said I bought all these products new when they first came out.
And 2, I was mostly speaking about Early Akai stuff I.E. MPC-60, 3000, 2000.
I don't know what y'all were doing but I wasn't getting bugs and have only had freeze ups a few times...

P.S. I Put JJ O.S. on the MPC-1000 when I had it. That dude and Rohan are prime examples of why Akai, a company with vastly more resources, should be able to do better then they currently are.
Not only do I think they could better support they're current product line but I think they should also continue support of they're older products. Either that, or make the hardware open source so that these third party programmers can get busy!

MPC 2000? You obviously didn't have that when it was released. The first two operating systems were unusable. Keep in mind that the current crop of MPCs are far superior to that machine and offer so much more.

If you feel JJ and Rohan are giving you greater/better support, then I would continue to use the MPC 2500/1000 and the MPC 3000.

Askia Shaheed wrote:If you feel JJ and Rohan are giving you greater/better support, then I would continue to use the MPC 2500/1000 and the MPC 3000.

That's pretty much the plan...

That's cool. But don't be offended that there are many of us that enjoy are new Akai MPCs.

Askia Shaheed wrote:That's cool. But don't be offended that there are many of us that enjoy are new Akai MPCs.

Offended?!?!

I'm never offended when beatmaker / musician gets enjoyment out of they're instrument.
If your diggin the 5000, great! I think everyone here on this forum should seek out the MPC, (or whatever gear for that matter.) that's right for them and suits they're needs. I chose what I have because these instruments make creating music enjoyable for ME.

I think that should be kept in mind as to not get offended when guys like me states how I feel about Akai's current business practices.

Askia Shaheed wrote:

Word, but to look at things from the perspective of some people who are disapointed with the 5k... yeah it is true that they should be happy with what they got and work with what's in front of them... however I think the issue is that they dont want to just settle when they spent so much money.

If I were to look from the perspective of some people who are disappointed with the 5K, I would not buy the MPC nor would I care to spend any time in this forum discussing it. I wouldn't spend $2000 just to be able to say I own the new MPC.

Akai released an MPC with a specific feature set. This info was available months before it was available in stores. You buy the product if it meets your needs based upon the specs and feature set. You don't buy the product and then complain that it doesn't have certain features that were never advertised. You can respectfully submit user requests for certain features. But Akai is not obligated to honor every request users make. Even without an OS update, the 5K is as cheap and more feature packed than any other highend MPC in the past.

Akai is king in advertising bullshit info. The 4000 had so many cool features but we never experienced most of them!. Here's a little prove:
this is at the current FAQ section of the mpc4000 at the official akai website:

I have produced a complete beat with my MPC4000. How can I burn it to a CD or share it via Internet?
When your beat is ready, go to the RECORD mode and select MAIN OUT as the source for stereo recording. Set the sampling time to the length of your beat and the threshold to the minimum. Arm for recording and play your sequenced beat from the start. This will create a new stereo sample of your beat, including the effects. When finished recording, transfer this stereo sample as WAV file in your computer (via USB or any removable media), and use your computer software to either write this file to an audio CD or encode it as an MP3 file to share it via Internet.

This is not true. The effects are disabled when you bounce your track internally. Which is a HUGE difference!

akai is a bullshit company. since the mpc2000, they make buggy os's, crappy buttons/contacts and lie about their products.

however, I am still happily using my mpc but thats because of the easy and one-of-a-kind workflow this machine has.