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First 4 are new ones... feel free to comment

Cheers, I guess I'm a die-hard MPC enthousiast, as it has really improved my beats a great deal. That 2500 seems real nice too, like a 2000 and a 1000 put together. Especially the sample in play option makes me soil my undies About the sound quality: what's wrong with it? It's 16bit/44 khz, just as any regular pc. 24/96 is only useful for mastering purposes (ie after the mix mpc+fx,comps...) and if you don't have real quality dithering possibilities it's almost impossible to get it to cd and keep the quality.

You can replace it with any sound you like. Nope, you can use CF cards, Zips, a HD or floppy disks that are FAT (not FAT32) formatted and transfer them from pc. Or you can sample straight into the mpc, which sounds way better anyway. All in all, if you use midi to steer something like Reason for long samples and to control external synths, an MPC isn't outdated at all. You have no fx, no compression, very basic filters but what's the problem with that? The MPC1000 does, but the quality isn't good enough anyway. Same goes for reason, those fx seem nice but if you ever want to record professionally your sound engineer will rather see you coming with an MPC with 8 outs than with a laptop, because he can use DECENT material to eq, compress... Don't compare an empee to a pc, because it isn't. It's a pad-controlled sequencer with built-in sampler, and it's great at that. Oh and yes i have used reason for years before switching to hardware, never looked back and have seen a lot of producers going the same route.

Yes you can. Other options: get a tape adapter, they have a decent sound, but don't work in all car's stereos (not my new one ), or to cut the wires that lead to where a separate cd player can be placed (in the trunk mostly), but they need to be RCA, not coaxial or optical digital wires. I think we had a link to this sort of thing once.

A friend of mine had it, he almost never let any of us cut on it though, as after we did it always got completely jammed. Seems you have to be really light-handed with them.

Nice ghettoblaster there mate! Not getting rid of any of those doubles are ya?

Pharcyde - Drop

FIRST time ever I've heard anyone mentioning Fingathing on these (or any) forums. I love them, always wondered as to why they're being slept on like this.

I wish... Nah that's just the place I go diggin' Have about 1.2 k records, but they're in 3 diff. locations so I can't be arsed to post pics up.

Any word on the microkorg?

I know everyone on here will contradict me, but according to research done a few years ago, HP is actually the best. Their ink is expensive and they generally consume lots of it, but the cheap price of the printers makes up for it apparently. Also the build quality is rather shoddy, but they will always exchange your printer (quickly) instead of replacing it. I have to admit I'd rather buy an Epson or a Canon myself.

Xander, any idea of the price of a Microkorg ? Best I've seen was € 180-200.

The €2 bins are mostly mpc food, although I've also found a little hip hop worth it's price. The funk/soul/jazz/rock sections in the shop itself are amazing: anything you look for in any kind of pressing, all sorted alphabetically.

I used to go to Amsterdam or Rotterdam to dig, but this beats both. Crates full of rare funk/soul/jazz albums in the shop itself, and ten times as much crates in the 'stock', everything for €2. You have to ask kindly to get in though... Check it: The shop (sorry only 2 pics...) The stock:

1 Gb isn't that much (it's 800 MB for regular MD's formatted as Hi-MD) but you can bring a stack of MD's, as opposed to HD storage where you have 4, 10, 20...Gb and that's it.

Abilities from def jux isn't bad either.

Try to cop an old SP202, they run on batteries. BATTERIES MAN! That's a huge pro. 404 runs on batteries too, but I thin it's more expensive Although for that price you can also find a used MPC2000XL, which may be a better deal (pads!). It only runs on AC though

Hope it'll be better than the 1000. I doubt if anything will ever make me switch from the 2000XL though... except maybe a 60/sp1200 just for drums

Sonar, since the time it was still Cakewalk. Not that popular over here but it works for me.

Heheh, TROY never touched me that much either, funny how evrybody here agrees on not digging a song everyone does. Indeed: 2Pac, and anything produced by Scott storch, but that's just good taste i guess. The ones that make people look at me as if i were a pile of shite when i tell them i don't like it: Stereo MC's (rhymes plain whack, uninspired beats), Massive Attack (c'mon unfinished sympathy is great, the rest is cliche main triphop) and PINK FLOYD! I like some of the classics, the more rock stylee work, but those endless orchestra style shit songs make me cringe. Stop acting intellectual while you're just boring. Go ahead and rant over this...

Word! That's exactly how i feel about most of them, some variations and long synth sweeps to make it really huge. Tnx for the input man.

Reason? Nah it's just mpc I'll see to get some posted when shit's finished (so i can be straight again), just wanted to share some stuff and see what other peeps think.

C'mon no one?

Here's my soundclick with a few newer files. These are, again, the unfinished versions of songs that normally have synths, vocal samples, and ofcourse cuts over them, and that have been properly mixed and recorded (well, some of them, most are work in progress). Being really paranoid about ppl stealing my music I prefer to leave these unfinished versions there for the public. My personal favorites are herbie, 14, roar and cats. And yes, these are work titles right here edit: added 2 more today