Mpc 2000xl...

[Carpe Diem]

Easy guys, hope you're all well... I've finally saved up enough cash to get myself a 2000XL, been offered one with a Korg EA1 Synth, a 12 track mixer, and an ORB drive with 3 x 2GB disks, all for £550 (equilivant to around $1100)...

My only concern is the memory... I'm gonna try and stick with a hardware setup, thus I'll need enough memory to hold samples, drums, cuts etc... Will this ORB drive be enough? I hear you can upgrade the MPCs memory, is that expensive?

Thanks in advance...

 

[classic]

Its more then enought memeory...ive never run out and i load the shit out of it

 

[Carpe Diem]

Cool man, thanks... Is that just using the standard MP memory?

 

[classic]

max it out to 32mb and u will be good....

 

[Formant024]

stupid question perhaps, but i think a mpc2000xl with the other stuff is still a lot of money and i doubt you'll need all of it. What does you setup currently look like ? Personaly, id ditch the electribe, the mixer the lot and keep the xl, add the 32mb, a cf drive instead of hd's and a copy of mpceditorv3.

Then again, you could also buy the xl secondhand cheaper without all the other crap, perhaps a clean one with no expansions (mostly, there all fitted already with 32mb). Add other stuff to it and you have money left for a brand new soundcraft pocket mixer ( very nice too ) or a soundcard with 8 inputs in order to track the mpc.

 

[Carpe Diem]

stupid question perhaps, but i think a mpc2000xl with the other stuff is still a lot of money and i doubt you'll need all of it. What does you setup currently look like ? Personaly, id ditch the electribe, the mixer the lot and keep the xl, add the 32mb, a cf drive instead of hd's and a copy of mpceditorv3.

Then again, you could also buy the xl secondhand cheaper without all the other crap, perhaps a clean one with no expansions (mostly, there all fitted already with 32mb). Add other stuff to it and you have money left for a brand new soundcraft pocket mixer ( very nice too ) or a soundcard with 8 inputs in order to track the mpc.

Really? I'm torn now...! Currently I'm jst running a PC with Reason3 and SF7, obviously want to make the move over to hardware, and afetr searching on EBay for the 2000XL, it seems all are around the £500 mark. If I do buy it, I think I will upgrade it to 32MB, but I'm not sure on a CF Drive, what are its uses?

 

[afriquedeluxe]

sounds like a good deal for £550, I am thinking of getting either the 2000xl or the 2500 next year.

 

[wizard]

Hey U Got To Make It Out
My Mpc200xl Is Max
Wit All Optoins Even The Effect Board Is In There Too
8 Out And Ect.
Its Max
The Best Way Is Just To Max It All Out And Then U Have No Worries

 

[Formant024]

Hey you across the pond, i've seen the xl go here for 500/650 euro depending on expansions, but always had 32mb installed. A CFdrive or cardreader gives you the option to store on something bigger than a disk or a zipdrive, 2nd, its quiet, no sound, nada. 3rd, its far less quirky then zip, its not likely you'll hear a tick of death and find a dead zip in your drive. 4th, a disk is 1,44mb, a zip 100mb or 250mb, other storage options are a hd which has a max of 2Gb I believe, the HD can be SCSI or IDE since you have both controllers embedded on the motherboard (+ the external scsi). Externaly you can opt for scsi cd, HD the lot...but...its not as portable like replacing your diskdrive with a cardreader which gives you the option for 2 or 3 media drives in cf, sd and pcmcia format at a max size of 1024mb...x3. I fitted mine with a scsi reader, costs a bit more but is somewhat faster than ide but better, i have ide left for an hd and i can use the external scsi port to load wav to the other mpc. On a note, i said theoretical size because most manufacturers dont develop mediacards that are exactly 1024mb which causes the mpc to bug when browsing. Considering the overwelming storage option i have now I've settled with 3x 512MB and 2x512mb and thats really enough.

AD, get an xl and save that cash for some nice keys, NL electro or GEM promega. Im not bitchin on the 2500 cuz its cool, but with a good pc and interfac you wont be missing any of those extra dsp options, you just want to record midi and sequence samples.

 

[Trakmarx]

The type of memory needed for the mpc is cheap plus you can only put a total of 2 memory sticks for a total of 32 mb, which is plenty to get down and start banging out

personally i want to cop the 2500 not that the xl is not perfect but i just think that times are changing and with the technological advances had changed the level of production, if your gonna stick to hardware you should go with the mpc that is gonna let you have the best of both worlds. you also gotta consider price. theres a big difference between the two. theres also the option to get reason and the akai midi controller.