inspectah wu said:
i seen this piece bein used at a few shows was wonderin what the deal is about it. i know its the first mpc and it was designed by roger linn, would it bring anything new to the table if i already have a 1000, and does anyone know of a place or anybody that sells samples that were processed through a mpc 60
I've been making beats for awhile and used just about every hardware beatbox as well as Logic Pro on the Mac and nothing beats the MPC-60 for making hiphop beats. You need to buy an upgraded one however, since the original had some weak software that didn't even let you hit monophonic samples.
If you get one with v. 3.11 software, it is equivalent to an MPC-3000 but at 12-bits. To me, that's makes it better than a 3000 as it sounds a bit grittier and in your face. It has 4 midi outs and 2 midi ins like the 3000 which makes it more studio ready than an mpc-2000 which only has 2 midi outs. I control 2 Akai S950's, EMU Mo-Phatt, ASR-10 Rack all on their own seperate midi output so midi timing never gets sacraficed.
The interface is all text based but the screen is real big and easy to read. It does smpte and all other main sync functions out of the box so it will intergrate perfect with other studio gear.
Do yourself a favor, buy one of these machines - you will see what I mean
Peace -