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interesting - neither of those links seem to go anywhere on the Sweetwater site, but I'm sure they did when you posted them... Wonder if they jumped the gun, going pre-NAMM perhaps?

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No news as yet in wether these new stand alone devices will allow you the same quick access to PornHub as computer based production.

Thats something you definitely dont get with the Sp 404 and a faulty Mini Disc recorder as your set up.. :|

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I'll take the 404 and MD over Nukai any and every day of the week, gents. Which is a bit sad to say considering how right Akai got things with my once beloved 2000XL.

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I assume you've found the 404's secret porn accessing sub-menu that Dan's laughably missed?

Is this what happens when you press the 'knob bypass filter' switch thats underneath the base of the sampler ?

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Prices are a bit high on these all things considered, Roland could release a sampler at a much lower price, Novation could Pro the circuit at a much lower price, these seem to be a big gamble for Akai, they existed on the whole BS of 'Tightness' and they are not going to have that with these designs, bit of luck we should get a flood of 1000s and 2000s on Ebay though hahaha

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It's not what you press as much as it is how you press it, Dan :d

 

Flexi - that's what worries me. "I don't need an MPC" might need to be a mantra

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I dug the 1000 - especially with the JJ OS - but after being used to the 2000XL it seemed like the pads were tiny for my yeti hands: I kept pressing the F keys when I was pad drumming (which was kind of ill when it cycled through drum banks, but still not what I was wanting to do). I don't think I gave the 1000 a fair chance, to be honest. If I got another MPC it'd probably be a 1000... but I don't need one.

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I had a 1000 briefly and it was good for what it was, but it did definitely mark the beginning of the down turn for Akai - massively downgraded pads, tact switches and OS at launch. In true InMusic style, both the pads and OS were fixed after a few years and a third party making a fix for a problem that should've never been there.

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I dug the 1000 - especially with the JJ OS - but after being used to the 2000XL it seemed like the pads were tiny for my yeti hands: I kept pressing the F keys when I was pad drumming (which was kind of ill when it cycled through drum banks, but still not what I was wanting to do). I don't think I gave the 1000 a fair chance, to be honest. If I got another MPC it'd probably be a 1000... but I don't need one.

Yeah the 1000 pads are a bit small if your used to playing on the 2000 or 2000xl.

 

I guess i got used to it because that was my first ever real piece of hardware.

From stepping up from sampling loops with a gemini 12 second sampler and layering it up in a 4 track tascam!

Man those were the days! Just sequencing everything in realtime!

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Ha! My first sampler was an Akai s20 - I thought it was going to work like an MPC (I was pretty clueless) but it obviously didn't and I got about as far as sampling and looping drums before I sold it and started saving for an MPC.

 

When we were making stuff on a Portastudio we only had a drum machine, bass guitar, shit keyboard, echo chamber and turntables. We made the strangest shit using headphones for mics. A sampler would have been ill, but we bought all our equipment from the second hand electronics shop down the street so if they didn't have it, we didn't get it.

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@ Tenshun

There's a Tascam 424 Mk 3-
4 track tape deck sat in my kitchen right now !..

£70 from Cash Converters last Wednesday morning..there's not a scratch on it and it works like a charm so whoever owned it previously took seriously good care of it.. :((

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