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When I first sold the 2000XL, the initial plan was to get one of the newer ones, like the 1000 or the 2500. Basically get the same MPC workflow, which I loved, but with a few modern conveniences and other improvements (thanks, in part, to JJ OS).

But, I got sidetracked for a minute. Found a Machinedrum for a good price and felt compelled to try it for a while. It was kind of fun, but after the initial "wow, this is kind of cool" period, it kind of lost me.

After a few weeks with the MD, I decided that MPC's are more in tune with me, so I decided to sell it. Then it was a tossup between the 2500 and the 1000. I'd already owned both at some point or another, and I know their weaknesses and strengths. The 2500, of course, is more fully featured, but if I could save a few hundred bucks, I'd happily buy a 1000.

Fellow forumite "beats me" made me an offer that I couldn't refuse, so I bought his 1000.... which incidentally, works perfectly.

never owned a machine drum, but the mpc 1000 is the best thing i ever bought, make mw want to do music a gain, it's a real instrument where you listen to what you have done instead of looking to a screen and assuming that something needs to be "that long" ... really makes me focus on what i hear.

i think i will grab a 2500 as soon as i will get everything i can (thing that i never done with the computer) out of it.

p.s. everything i record into it sounds so alive, must be something in the converters

aqua_tek wrote:When I first sold the 2000XL, the initial plan was to get one of the newer ones, like the 1000 or the 2500. Basically get the same MPC workflow, which I loved, but with a few modern conveniences and other improvements (thanks, in part, to JJ OS).

But, I got sidetracked for a minute. Found a Machinedrum for a good price and felt compelled to try it for a while. It was kind of fun, but after the initial "wow, this is kind of cool" period, it kind of lost me.

After a few weeks with the MD, I decided that MPC's are more in tune with me, so I decided to sell it. Then it was a tossup between the 2500 and the 1000. I'd already owned both at some point or another, and I know their weaknesses and strengths. The 2500, of course, is more fully featured, but if I could save a few hundred bucks, I'd happily buy a 1000.

Fellow forumite "beats me" made me an offer that I couldn't refuse, so I bought his 1000.... which incidentally, works perfectly.

what did you think of the E12 lo fi simulator? is it good or just better to get an sps and resample onto an old school ensoniq EPS?

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v00d00ppl wrote:

aqua_tek wrote:When I first sold the 2000XL, the initial plan was to get one of the newer ones, like the 1000 or the 2500. Basically get the same MPC workflow, which I loved, but with a few modern conveniences and other improvements (thanks, in part, to JJ OS).

But, I got sidetracked for a minute. Found a Machinedrum for a good price and felt compelled to try it for a while. It was kind of fun, but after the initial "wow, this is kind of cool" period, it kind of lost me.

After a few weeks with the MD, I decided that MPC's are more in tune with me, so I decided to sell it. Then it was a tossup between the 2500 and the 1000. I'd already owned both at some point or another, and I know their weaknesses and strengths. The 2500, of course, is more fully featured, but if I could save a few hundred bucks, I'd happily buy a 1000.

Fellow forumite "beats me" made me an offer that I couldn't refuse, so I bought his 1000.... which incidentally, works perfectly.

what did you think of the E12 lo fi simulator? is it good or just better to get an sps and resample onto an old school ensoniq EPS?

It was ok. Nothing that you couldn't achieve with a good SP-12 or 1200 sample pack IMO.

Your cat looks like a very elegant statue.

Nice, she sits there like she was told to sit like that...some kind of a model cat...

This is what the cat is looking at:

hahaha. shes such a camera whore.

Poster wrote:my contribution to the slide show..

how weird that when i came across this i was listening to dont believe a hype surkin remix and i saw your signature lol i was like wtf? lol

Rabalder wrote:This is what the cat is looking at:

Thanks for giving me nightmares.

It's weird how many peoples don't care about monitors placement... Ears hight in between boomer & tweeter, Equilateral triangle distance head/monitors, twitters in the outside for stereo image if monitors are on their sides, ect... The link between you and your system is one of the most important thing ! (:

Hervé wrote:It's weird how many peoples don't care about monitors placement... Ears hight in between boomer & tweeter, Equilateral triangle distance head/monitors, twitters in the outside for stereo image if monitors are on their sides, ect... The link between you and your system is one of the most important thing ! (:

+1

maybe he just listen with his head curved on keyboard without looking at the screen..