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Published on 09/28/12 at 12:03characteristics? you have them in 'News' this product
Very attractive on paper, complete MPC +
4 FX buses 2, a synth VA, record direct to disk, sampling / sample edition of a sequencer to concrete fact of the renowned MPC etc ....
no editor on computer, just a USB connection to transfer data on the HDD
UTILIZATION
Simple config?
for a user to MPC relatively yes (some notable changes compared to the 2000 I had before but familiar ground)
for anyone who discovers it is the gas plant is clear! RTFM seems like the other!
The manual is clear enough I think yeah
the architecture of the Bécanne logical and relatively easy access, shift + PAD X to access the various menus
the backlit display and top qd we know those other mpc
however, its use is hampered by small bugs couraging enough in the long
I'll come back in conclusion
SOUNDS
by sampling the sound is played as it is, he can be accused of lacking character but I do not complain
pads meet the finger and the eye! to see in the long run but for now no testicle for almost 3 years on this
VA synth wrong, I'm not a synth expert but you can make good ground and the other lead, with qq fx ass it gets interesting! we may regret the absence of automation parameters
Weak point for racing pots which are staggered by integers have the impression of hearing each level
for patch sentence, the tunes of samples, and the filter sucks ...
Filters are passable, quite garish and digital, with dosing fingering (z'auraient able to do less but to integrate a kind of MFC42, we can always dream ....)
FX, there's drinking and eating ....
I like the delays and distos, good enough for me
reverb, compressor blah ....
those modulation (chorus, phaser, flanger, trmolo ...) are very muffled, no way to go in extreme settings and tweak sound like a pig,,, little deception so ...
filter sweep of interesting, as well as other or the decimator freq. shifter
Unfortunately these FX are subject to qq bugs, I'll come back at the end ...
OVERALL OPINION
I almost 3 years
I've tasted a lot of groove machine / BAR / synth + of 10 years since
what I like +?
MPC workflow, which I find really hell
complete machine in the studio or live it enough (almost) to itself (I use cubase for premastering)
the -:
for a machine to 2000 balls at its output, there's a lot of stuff that bothers me ...:
hard part:
it's not top reliability,,, there's a bunch of DD who dropped apparently mine pedal in the semolina very often and I feel he will let go at any time! (My obsession ...)
I had to change the motherboard and I am not alone in this .... (the machine was barely 3 years + without leaving the studio ...)
soft part:
I knew that os2 and I imagine how it would not even be the one with the toils! XD
a lot of small bugs long enough couraging to the case c ° + * ille: knobs that déassignent (force off / on again)
backups eat up half if we do not 'save Entire memory' (rather super sucks if you bump a prod that puts a heavy leaden to save)
note lengths which, if they impinge on each other, are reduced to 0 during save / load
impossible to seal a midi file
the machine randomly freeze when too many FX
no automation on the keyboard (except cutoff / reso)
there are many others ... peel the forums ...
damage, without it it would be killing
So despite all this mpc is a good machine, in the studio, because if bugs live, hello anguish!
it really gives me a sense of unfinished work and bungled from akai who have made an update to the bone and went whip other cats ...
with the experience I do not think I would do this choice ...
I would opt instead for a bone JJ + 2500 rack synth
I keep it anyway, hoping one day JJ OS!
Very attractive on paper, complete MPC +
4 FX buses 2, a synth VA, record direct to disk, sampling / sample edition of a sequencer to concrete fact of the renowned MPC etc ....
no editor on computer, just a USB connection to transfer data on the HDD
UTILIZATION
Simple config?
for a user to MPC relatively yes (some notable changes compared to the 2000 I had before but familiar ground)
for anyone who discovers it is the gas plant is clear! RTFM seems like the other!
The manual is clear enough I think yeah
the architecture of the Bécanne logical and relatively easy access, shift + PAD X to access the various menus
the backlit display and top qd we know those other mpc
however, its use is hampered by small bugs couraging enough in the long
I'll come back in conclusion
SOUNDS
by sampling the sound is played as it is, he can be accused of lacking character but I do not complain
pads meet the finger and the eye! to see in the long run but for now no testicle for almost 3 years on this
VA synth wrong, I'm not a synth expert but you can make good ground and the other lead, with qq fx ass it gets interesting! we may regret the absence of automation parameters
Weak point for racing pots which are staggered by integers have the impression of hearing each level
for patch sentence, the tunes of samples, and the filter sucks ...
Filters are passable, quite garish and digital, with dosing fingering (z'auraient able to do less but to integrate a kind of MFC42, we can always dream ....)
FX, there's drinking and eating ....
I like the delays and distos, good enough for me
reverb, compressor blah ....
those modulation (chorus, phaser, flanger, trmolo ...) are very muffled, no way to go in extreme settings and tweak sound like a pig,,, little deception so ...
filter sweep of interesting, as well as other or the decimator freq. shifter
Unfortunately these FX are subject to qq bugs, I'll come back at the end ...
OVERALL OPINION
I almost 3 years
I've tasted a lot of groove machine / BAR / synth + of 10 years since
what I like +?
MPC workflow, which I find really hell
complete machine in the studio or live it enough (almost) to itself (I use cubase for premastering)
the -:
for a machine to 2000 balls at its output, there's a lot of stuff that bothers me ...:
hard part:
it's not top reliability,,, there's a bunch of DD who dropped apparently mine pedal in the semolina very often and I feel he will let go at any time! (My obsession ...)
I had to change the motherboard and I am not alone in this .... (the machine was barely 3 years + without leaving the studio ...)
soft part:
I knew that os2 and I imagine how it would not even be the one with the toils! XD
a lot of small bugs long enough couraging to the case c ° + * ille: knobs that déassignent (force off / on again)
backups eat up half if we do not 'save Entire memory' (rather super sucks if you bump a prod that puts a heavy leaden to save)
note lengths which, if they impinge on each other, are reduced to 0 during save / load
impossible to seal a midi file
the machine randomly freeze when too many FX
no automation on the keyboard (except cutoff / reso)
there are many others ... peel the forums ...
damage, without it it would be killing
So despite all this mpc is a good machine, in the studio, because if bugs live, hello anguish!
it really gives me a sense of unfinished work and bungled from akai who have made an update to the bone and went whip other cats ...
with the experience I do not think I would do this choice ...
I would opt instead for a bone JJ + 2500 rack synth
I keep it anyway, hoping one day JJ OS!