wow at first I thought we had Micheal Bolton on the list.....I was
psyched!!!
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Michael Bolotin wrote:
>
> I can't say enough good things about my mpc2000, it is the
> cornerstone of anything that I ever produce. You can
> easily max out the memory to 32 megs for under $40 at your
> local computer store, and get a scsi zip drive to save
> everything on for under $100. I've heard there are people
> out there that own mpc's without these two
> upgrades...fools...that's like owning a ferrari with a six
> ounce gas tank and no head lights.
>
> The drums suck though, in my opinion. You can get them to
> knock, but not without messing with them for a while. The
> 60II and the 3000 sound a lot crisper and louder. I do all
> my drums on an SP-12 that is midi'd up to the mpc, which I
> think sounds supperior to the 3000, or anything else for
> that matter.
>
> -MikeBolo
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:08:08 EDT Leftalive1@aol.com wrote:
> > The MPC 2000 has essentially the same guts as the S2000 stand alone sampler
> > with some additional sequencing and programming abilities. Its a fantastic
> > sampler for alot of things, but it only excels at drum and loop based
> > programming. The only real bummers about it are the lack of time stretching
> > ( on the older models ), and the inability to save files across multiple
> > disks ( it would also be nice to have onboard flash ROM to store the OS ). So
> > you can sample anything, ( strings, horns, whatever... ) but if the sample is
> > longer than about six seconds mono, or three stereo, you can't save it to
> > disk. ( You would have to have a scsi drive or something. ) I understand
> > that the 2000XL has many of these limitations solved but the older MPC2000's
> > can be found used for a great price. If you can afford it go for the newer
> > one, but I've had a regular mpc2000 for a year of heavy use and I love it to
> > death. Besides, for about a hundred bucks you can expand the memory all the
> > way to 32 megs, and thats the most important thing anyways... Peace.
>
>
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