Here's the spec's..... never used one, I've listed the MPC's as sequencers, as to me that is their primary function, with a sampling drum & loop box attatched.... The Mpc's are not samplers in the sense that you can create a sound, map int over the keybaord range, and play it or sequence it melodicaly..... think of them as excellent hardware sequncers with an un-limited drum kit library, and loop player.... sure, by arranging samples of pitches, you can create melodic lines, but it's not like a synth-sampler.... read on.......
MPC2000 MIDI Production Center
- Sampler, drum machine and MIDI sequencer in one instrument
- Dedicated buttons for most-used functions
- Informative graphic display with soft keys
- Uses the sound engine of Akai's S2000 sampler
- 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo sampling with 32-voice polyphony
- Resonant digital filter & envelope per voice
- Large, velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads for expressive programming
- Note Variation slider for programming a wide variety of realtime dynamics
- Extensive cut-and-paste sample editing with waveform display
- Stereo Mix outputs & optional eight individual outputs + S/PDIF digital I/O
- Built-in floppy disk and SCSI interface
- Reads sample data from S1000 and S3000 series samplers
- Supports both linear and pattern-style (looped) recording
- 100,000 note sequence capacity
- Step Edit mode for fast recording, viewing or editing of any event in a sequence
- Flexible synchronization capabilities: MIDI clock, MTC, and SMPTE (optional)
- Two MIDI inputs with merge & two independent MIDI outputs (32 channels)
You can upgrade the MPC-2000with the following options.....
- 8 analog ouput and two-channel digital I/O board
- Multi-effects processor board
- 8MB Flash ROM board
- SMPTE board
Well, probably with it's stablemates of the mpc-60 & mpc-3000, the most rated hardware sequencers ever made, and the creator of a thousand hit records......... check it out.....
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