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i got a black one for 250 bucks. with paid jjos plus 110gb harddrive

Thank you for the video! I’m considering buying a MPC 1000 or a new MPC live or mpc one, but in your opinion, does new sounds different with old mpc?

Once I got past the *steep* learning curve it was nothing but love. Literally no complaints.

If you get an sp404sx to make music you are a hippy. It was never meant to be used for serious music making. Yes you can make very limited and simple beats. This is a performance tool, not a music production tool.

Probably completely unapproachable machine for ipad kids generation😂

SP-808 Original Owner :)

Do you guys run in double triggering issues (pads) ? I’ve replaced the pad sensor but didn’t fix the issue…

Wow - you’ve got a very noisy copy. Mine doesn’t produce that plane-like sound on boot up.

those stems sounds awful, definitely not usable for anything remotely professional

We talk about MPCs in our episodes, check it out !

Been looking for an upgraded one at a good price from time to time. Love seeing them still used.

you have gigantic hands

I got mine in 2010 all black 😊

Bought an MK2 mainly as an FX box to run my MPC live 2 through for live performances. Took me about a year to build up the will to learn how to actually make beats on it as I knew it was going to be tedious in comparison to my Live 2 but once I got the hang of it I was hooked! Even though it has waaaay less features than my Live 2 and is nowhere near as “Edit friendly”, to my surprise I find that I actually enjoy the fact that it’s limited in capabilities in comparison to my Live 2 because it sort of forces you to make decisions and move on, whereas in my live 2 I can and WILL spend entirely too much time tinkering on things such as how much signal from an individual sample I’m sending to the reverb return and the reverbs characteristics and what not. Don’t get me wrong, I thinks it awesome that that’s even possible and that you can really get into minute details in the MPC but stuff like that tends to disrupt my workflow in terms of finishing a beat. In other words, a current gen MPC is like a PS5 and an MK2 is like a PS2. Yes the PS5 has TONS more features/ capabilities but the PS2 has an essence and feel that makes it legendary in its own right.

Dope video!! i just pulled mine back out.. i also had to do the pad upgrade on mine and it was a black model. What was that CF Card that you used?

I loved it back then, but I don’t miss it at all, the new ones are fantastic.

Got me itching again!!! Man these machines are so good

The silver OG sounds the best….

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I run a 5000 and replaced the HD with a SSD, now its silent. Its an incredible machine, but cheaper than a 4000 because some producer hated the 1.0 firmware ut shipped with

I have one

Just copped one, and the new Medieval.

Hey not much what’s up with you?

Wow a TE product that isnt $900

the timing on that video upload

This didn’t help me with my taxes at all. The IRS are breathing down my neck for back taxes and HR block refuses to help me with my offshore accounts! This mega calculator looked like it could compute how much of my future wages were going to be garnished but I couldn’t even get the subtract button to work. Refund please!!! -Lenny

Looks like a Nintendo SNES. Not Manic doing Hipster stuff out of spite. Did you make the spinning stand?

Never leave home without mine, great machine!

I have this machine to create tracks in logic. I also use my TD3 to sequence random sounds in non-phonic form. This machine is a bit better than the SU10 and has the same inherited things, although the SU10 sequencer is what makes the SU10 interesting, as it has midi in/out and can be used with a midi keyboard to make interesting compositions with very short sounds, I use this thing with these same minimal techniques. I actually bought this machine to sample and play sounds with it over basic instrumentals and add some low fidelity. There are many things I love about the SU200. I like the live performance tricks, ways of playing and with only 6 FX stacked you can process voices recorded on the sampler, these FX are great. Another thing I really like is the ribbon, although it looks like crap it isn't, it even has shortcuts to edit a loop easier. I don't know what the tap function is, but once I discovered that I could match the BPM of a beat on the audio signal input, it's really useful for sampling the source after measuring the beats of the beat you want to sample. I love the resampling it has (resampling in 1996 is always a great thing) It's an 8-track looper, I can make a minimal techno beat and make things transform into something else. It doesn't have a looper mode, it's not a loopstation, but it's a looper that can program very easily with 8 tracks of a song created in a DAW with the same BPM. And finally, the sample CD that comes in the box, it's a gem! This thing shines the most next to the sounds on the CD it comes with, with its rhythms, loops, synth sounds, voices and effects, it has everything and it is an audio CD that I highly recommend, it was created by AMG (advanced media group) for Yamaha, a great producer of classic samples rescued from the 80s and 90s, really this CD is a great value for the machine, and just with this you can do many ideas with a DAW in 2024. Yes, I know that some think I'm exaggerating, but I've had it since 1996, I bought it before the MC-303, I love these cheap things from the late 90s, they are designed for improvisation and now with modern DAWs I barely need virtual plugins to make music. The machine needs to be investigated and if I've learned anything with it is that depending on the person it can be a disaster or a genius. If anyone has this thing and is disappointed, I'll just tell them not to sell it, it's worth more than it seems, it's an underrated machine and above all very underrated. The CD has great instrumental value and the sampler has good editing functions, it also has a chromatic mode where you can play keyboard sounds and samples with rarities. It's true that it has the same pads as an SP404, it's very similar in that and it also reminded me of the Electribe. If you want to combine modern sounds with low fidelity sounds to do things like trip-hop, down tempo, 2 step drum and bass, jungle, house, techno... this machine is great, it all depends on how you use it, really this machine was used a lot in the records of the late 90s and 2000s, because it was a very instant machine, thought a lot to play live, even with a midi keyboard you can play great things, capturing things from the radio, you don't need a big team to do great things. In 2024 I sample stuff from internet and analog radios, I always turn it on with Logic Pro and it's all fun sometimes I'm surprised by what I can do with those moments where I'm exploring radio stations and then playing sounds that I find. It's a small sampler that has its good virtues, and the simpler things are on the SU-200 the better the results are. Thanks for the video, don't sell it seriously, no one will give anything for it and if you lose it you'll lose a hardware sampler from the end of the 20th century, a machine with multi-effects and a programmable looper. 😅👍👍

This was my first sampler. I got it around 2000. Watching this took me way, way back! Thanks.

Yea jjos takes the cf limit up to 500gb i think. Also get the rechargeable battery mod :)

Easier just with Koala Sampler.

I loved my 1000. The only one that came close to being as productive was my 2500…but my 1000 fitted inside a soft laptop bag 😀

That sounds like a bad fan bearing.

32 chop limit????

Great video, informative. ASR X PRO please.

dope!!

I bought the 404SX used like 6 months before the MK2 was announced. Hah. My main gear is an Elektron Model:Cycles and a Drumbrute impact so even if I just use it for one shots I'm set, I really don't need the upgrade thankfully.

Get the black MPC 1000 you won't need the pad upgrade(other than thick pads if you want)

After months of searching I finally got me a MPC 1000 (shipped from Japan) I’m looking forward to creating some beats old skool style, question tho’ in the past I’ve used the JJ os but I to be honest much preferred the Akai os (I’m not doing anything that fancy) the unit I’ve got has JJ os X-L and I’m not planning to keep it, any pointers or suggestions on reversing it to Akai os?

Have you seen the EP-133 K.O. II? Thoughts?

My first MPC was the 2000XL in 2000 when I was stationed in South Korea. Over the years I bought maybe 12 of them cheap from eBay to mod by adding SCSI card readers, blue LCD screens, solder new LEDs, solder new tact switches and adding internal SCSI hard drives to store programs/samples/files to a 2.5” laptop hard drive. Made good money off of it and I had fun doing it. Cheers from the UK! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Just get the MPC One+ Its not vintage just old.... don't you want Wifi? plugins? a bigger screen? you need to think about your eye health.. that screen is a killer.

I felt like a fish out of water when I sold mine and I went back and got another one 5 months later 😅😅, love the MPC 2000xl, you'll get homesick the first week without it 😂

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just got a 5000 took it apart cleaned it up deoxit the whole nine. I have a ren too i use for stems and some chopping but everything sounds closer to radio ready from the ol' fiver. Unless they make a new one like the old ones i'm sticking with my 5000.

Man, I miss my 2000xl..... but my X is a beast, though!

Do yourself a favor and pick up a s5000/s6000/z4/z8 and this or a midi controller

This was a thorough review

Now I want a 404SX… I have an MK2, but I like the look of the OGs