Korg Triton to Akai MPC...which MPC?!?!?

I've had a Korg Triton for +5 years...I bot it in college when I wanted to get into beat making. Its a great machine, but I never got good at it and I am not a piano player. So...after years, I want to get an MPC to compliment my Korg. I can play chords, etc. But its hard on the Triton to 1) pound out drum beats, and 2) hard to sample...maybe I'm an idiot, but I never really learned the Triton sampling interface and now, dont really care to learn. In looking at the MPC tutorials on YouTube and the Pete Rock clips, it looks like the MPC would enable me to do all the things I 'dreamed' of being able to do.

Such a powerful sampling/sequencer looks like basically my one-stop shop. With the Korg sounds and other libraries, I think I would be set for what I want. I've never been too computer savvy re: sampling software, and again, I like to pound out drum beats, etc. Plus, with harddrives and flash memory, I dont need the floppy disks and ZIP drives and figuring out how to save work.

So...which MPC should I shoot for? Money is an issue, and I dont want to spend $3000 on a new machine that I may not love (like I did with the Triton). The MPC 2500 loaded looks like my price point on Ebay and Craigslist (between 1000 and 1500). But it looks like the 1000 may be fine too. But, part of me is looking at this MPC 5000 like whoa, this sh*t is crazy! But I cant really splurge right now.

What do people think? Good lookin out in advance.

Not another one of these topics there is like a million of these!

there are also a million dumb a$$ responses like this one...next

I run my Triton Studio and have ran a Trition Le to the MPC1000. Works fine with me

qevans2000 wrote:there are also a million dumb a$$ responses like this one...next

Like this one? Use the SEARCH

qevans2000 wrote:I've had a Korg Triton for +5 years...I bot it in college when I wanted to get into beat making. Its a great machine, but I never got good at it and I am not a piano player. So...after years, I want to get an MPC to compliment my Korg. I can play chords, etc. But its hard on the Triton to 1) pound out drum beats, and 2) hard to sample...maybe I'm an idiot, but I never really learned the Triton sampling interface and now, dont really care to learn. In looking at the MPC tutorials on YouTube and the Pete Rock clips, it looks like the MPC would enable me to do all the things I 'dreamed' of being able to do.

Such a powerful sampling/sequencer looks like basically my one-stop shop. With the Korg sounds and other libraries, I think I would be set for what I want. I've never been too computer savvy re: sampling software, and again, I like to pound out drum beats, etc. Plus, with harddrives and flash memory, I dont need the floppy disks and ZIP drives and figuring out how to save work.
So...which MPC should I shoot for? Money is an issue, and I dont want to spend $3000 on a new machine that I may not love (like I did with the Triton). The MPC 2500 loaded looks like my price point on Ebay and Craigslist (between 1000 and 1500). But it looks like the 1000 may be fine too. But, part of me is looking at this MPC 5000 like whoa, this sh*t is crazy! But I cant really splurge right now. What do people think? Good lookin out in advance.

I use a Triton w/my MPC60. Recockulous combination.

Lampdog just started a thread for fellow tritonites.

I followed the links (yes, by doing searches) and found THIS (very small) helpful "getting started" guide that breaks sampling in the triton down in a how-to-sample for dummies style; Page 7...AND!!! if u have the latest OS (2.5.3) u can sample WITH the effects- do u hav os 2.5.3??

Ur not an idiot about the sampling, don't sleep on the Triton's sampler from this point on

Lamps Triton Thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=106498

I owned mpc 4000 and mpc 5000 i run with korg m3 and yamaha motif xs8 plus sound modules,and it doesn't gets better then this i don't think.

Thanks fellas. The Korg links were sick. Much appreciated. I'm new to the site, and didnt realize I could search (since I am supposed to be doing my real job). Good lookin' out.