Members Amigo Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 The 1000 will cost me over twice as much money..... which brings the question, is it twice as good? All I want it to do is spit out what I put into it, be road worthy, dependable, and sound good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members akliner Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 The 1000 will cost me over twice as much money..... which brings the question, is it twice as good? All I want it to do is spit out what I put into it, be road worthy, dependable, and sound good. MATH More pads + better feel + more durable casing - no batteries - more expensive = MPC 1000 > MPC 500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Amigo Posted April 19, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 MATHMore pads + better feel + more durable casing - no batteries - more expensive = MPC 1000 > MPC 500 k wait the 500 only takes batteries? I have no experience with samplers and have never tried either, what are the exact differences? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members akliner Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 k wait the 500 only takes batteries? I have no experience with samplers and have never tried either, what are the exact differences? The MPC 500 can be run off batteries. The MPC 1000 cannot, however. Does anybody know if the 500's power supply is external? If so, that is another mark towards its less-than-desirable construction as compared to the MPC 1000. Anyway, the MPC 500, as you know, only has 12 pads. The MPC 1000, 2500, and 5000 each have 16 pads. For more detailed information you may want to look side-by-side at the specs pages on http://www.akaipro.com/mpc1000 and http://www.akaipro.com/mpc500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members moog man Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 MPC 500 does have an external power supply. Wouldn't make much sense to have it internal when it runs off batteries... And the 500 has the worst bug of all: it glitches during saving patterns. So you could spend all this time working with a beat and then lose it just like that. It doesn't have JJOS and akai are not planning on fixing this anytime soon as they haven't done anything since it came out. Bottom line is if you want to make and save beats with this thing get a 1000 and JJOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LameAim Posted April 20, 2010 Members Share Posted April 20, 2010 Bottom line is if you want to make and save beats with this thing get a 1000 and JJOS. All that needs to be said, really. If battery power is a must, I'd sooner try a Roland SP-404sx than a MPC 500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Amigo Posted April 20, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 20, 2010 hey quick question.... I just ordered an mpc 1000 but I'm starting to get worried. Does it only have 4 pad banks? I am more interested in using it as a live instrument rather than a production tool. I want something that I can load a bunch of samples into and have a new pad bank for many different songs..... so like for one song I could scroll to a pre-named bank of pads, and for the next song I would have another bank of pads etc.... Can I have more than 4 pre-loaded pad banks cus looking at it now, it only appears that I can have 4 (A,B,C,D) ????? If this is the case, what other sampler would you recommend that is of the same quality/size and can do what I want it to????? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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