All user reviews for the Akai Professional MPC2000

"What connection (audio, MIDI ...)?
How many sounds, styles available? Are they edited? Through a utility Mac / PC?
He has an effects section?
What caractériques sequencer? ... "


This is a good old sampler 90s. Sans option has 4mb of memory and record of backups on disk is 3.2 "(1.4 mb).

All options it has 32 MB of memory, 8 separate audio outputs and an effects module. Little is also connect a separate SCSI (CD HDD, CD, etc.). Device.

Do not ask. Yet there is a possibility to install a Compact Flash drive using internal SCSI port (about € 350 I think and some electronics concept to perform the operation).

For sound, this is a sampler, an empty box as a blank page. A sampler 16 bit / 44 kHz and a sequencer that the heyday of the MPC. Like her sisters, the real highlight of this particular model is not very advanced in its editing options, it is this particular groove and simplicity of use. And there is little connect the MPC 2000 as a simple controller / MIDI sequencer controls the tracks instruments of any DAW. Overcoming in this way the technological deficits.

UTILIZATION

"The general configuration is it simple?
The usual functions are they easily accessible?
The manual is clear and sufficient? ... "


The use of MPC in general is childish. Ors put data storage which was very tedious at the time, make a beat with this machine and very easy and fast.

Everything is at your fingertips and available now, when we know these machines are well taf speed of the idea (or almost).

SOUNDS

"The effects are they effective and responsive?
The expression is good? (Reaction velocity, aftertouch)?
What are the sounds you prefer, you hate? ... "

The effects available as an option are not of great quality.

The pads are very nice to use. To enter drums is ideal to play a mozart it may be tense.

I think the sound is rather neutral unlike the legend. In contrast, the dynamics are excellent, filters give some grain and a beat made on MPC recognizes quite easily.

OVERALL OPINION

"How long have you use it?
What is the particular feature you like best and least?
Have you tried many other models before buying it?
How would you rate the quality / price?
With experience, you do again this choice? ... "

It is a machine that I sold for a XL which offers more possibilities. Since I had the 500, 2500, 5000 and recently the Renaissance.

Storage possibilities of the time require a lot of discipline not to lose hope for his frequent samples and other prod well underway.

If ... we have to be why not keep it. This is an obsolete model today but still interesting for its groove and workflow of an MPC most recent default.

- Midi In / Out, Audio out stereo headphone jack, unless you add the optional extension card (8 out)

- No effects but optional, reverb and delay I think.

- No integrated (sampler) sounds, you must either add your sounds by the mean of the disk drive
'm a SCSI, ZIP or CD-R, the zip drive to save your project, not possible to burn CD-R, it just makes office reader bank.

- The sequencer is very good with a swing mode that gives your fishing mix,
the sequencer BAR is very simple with no frills.

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UTILIZATION

- It is rather simple to use, I would even say that when you know
well it is very ergonomic (feeling).

- The manual is pretty well translated and simple, because the machine is too.

- The functions are also accessible by buttons leads immediately
mode concerned.

SOUNDS

- The sound very good and should only do your sampling
if you do not put enough level in your source it will not be good, for example, also straighten your samples before sampling. Slightly méttalique
but it is minimal, also a level of output that's overkill AKAI.

- The pads are very sensitive unless your MPC 20 years without changing this one.

OVERALL OPINION

- I used two years while I had two.

- The very simple but also very basic feature, good for music
based sample as Hip Hop

- Today is a machine for fans, it must have been used to
appreciate, as many will find it very limited, with PC as Ableton or even some machine that looks like the kind of tools. Also if you want to get yourself one of these machines, think or do if a revision because it is very old.

No its origin, no memory, no external storage, no spares outlets, no effect akai ... thank you.
Trs of them in this area they chose the mthode "option while achtez please" but ...

UTILIZATION

THE squenceur of scne that controls machines, sound modules, samplers, synth.
The squenceur is terrible for those who love "type" vnements the twelve o'clock or the program via the step. But that's just when you know the machine has merits, it's going to rev faster!

SOUNDS

Nothing better for hip hop or even drum and bass (even a good honest trs) for a technology is complicated (no tural possibility of synthse) . no card outputs the signal finds its spares slimite covers too when the sound (drums + bass + nape + sample ...) but the sound is the rhythm divine, finally it's my opinion.

OVERALL OPINION

First machine, and a lot of beginners taking head, especially when you have no zip or cd rom or plates to sample, but a time APRS Discoveries of the possibility of standard m exelence your machine, since I was a pc and platinesavec (treatment samples of sound forge, sound bank standard, using software with export wav file + internet) is the foot ...

The conection PM: 2 IN, 2 OUT
Audio: Stereo In and Stereo Out default, expandable 8 out + spdif (IB208p)
Effects: Optional (EB16)

Is in the squence pattern, a model of its kind ncessite a little grip, but once done is very easy ... the step mode is not practical but is not what you're looking for this type of machine.

UTILIZATION

The configuration can be gnral is easier! Provided you have some knowledge.
Ergonomics is trsrussit, everything is at hand and the manual is explicit trs.

SOUNDS

It's a sampler, the sounds are even DIY! Jai read lower than a sound blaster sounded better! Only a person who has never had a sound blaster can write this is totally wrong, the machine sounds trs plutt clear and neutral, the dynamics are good. The only complaint I can do is a rponse the VLOC not terrible (in pads). The map is avoid EB16, sounds really bad for the price.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this machine since its release, I had bought IMMEDIATE!
This is the concept while one that attracts me the most was the era that machine had no equivalent, the MPC 60 as too limited in memory and much more ch 3000 re. The report quality price of this machine is now excellent, if a c'tait again, I Do not hesitate one second.

Squenceur a convenient but too expensive ... the rest .... Bontempi is the style? you believe that a sound?
Why did you leave aka Roger Linn! please! come back!

UTILIZATION

For squence is convenient but it is the groove? c'tait better before .... mpc mpc 3000 and 60 ... Thank you Roger! But we need you to come back because he Aka need you!

SOUNDS

A sound blaster live sound better, I talk knowingly to have used one for 3 years 1998 2001. Level converters, the mpc 2000 is a great scam, phnomne mass popularity misleading its sell-off contributed to the major users dsespoirs ears sharpened.

OVERALL OPINION

Well, it's a beautiful trs opration marketing has worked well ... they are strong in the commercial direction of aka .... you worry! they did not have because if it is not Roger, there are big fishy ....

Level characteristic is really complete
mixing velocity and sensitivity of the pad s is prime.
on top of that the sound more dynamic sound.
j frankly was a follower of mounting samplitude pro tools and I really controls the practice of my more sensitive to your a musician and that c is prime.

UTILIZATION

Everything is simple if you clear of the usual al PARAMETERS sound as a whole
if everything is complicated when you discover normal!
what would life be if everything was too simple?

SOUNDS

The mpc is great for rap rhythms rnb
a word in D has 7 dree which obviously mpc 2000.
if not for the effects.
n is frankly is not the problem nor the purpose of this machine
s really accessories.
by 8 against the analog sound less because they allow you to output table mix to perfect your sound and really include dynamic effects on your sound card or if you are 8 entry.

OVERALL OPINION

C is in short top
. Yason

Samplers with sequencer (optional 32 MB memory card, 8 outputs and spar card effects).
2 midi in / out
Between a stro
1 x Stereo
A SCSI connection
1 floppy drive

UTILIZATION

The party was Pipelines Limited sampler for drum kits it does not like the other samplers to sample all the keyboard (there is a way to put the sample on the 16 pads). So we sample and assign it to a pad.
The game is really well done sequencer which allows to make quick rhythmic

SOUNDS

The sound is a gal that can be fit into it. The filter is very well
The sound effect zero.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 5 years. I went on the 1000
Plus: sequencer, PAD.
The least: the bone-loading disk (or zip) at each boot

Describes widely elsewhere.
Mine has no option except the 32 MB of memory.
Today, the size of memory seems drisoire, but hey, you can do a lot of things even when, say that's enough .....
I use the SCSI interface because I have a ZIP drive (necessary in my opinion), and a cdrom drive ..... And many CDrom Akai format ....
No time stretch on the other hand .......

UTILIZATION

So it's like the whole, do not be afraid to open the user manual and read it and then have music to do is even when done for a. ... The manual is well done, and finally, we use the MPC quite simply, no major problem .... With a little practice, it is quite natural, and discovering a vritable musical instrument ......

SOUNDS

Well, it's a sampler, so adpend a bit of what we put .... It is true that the MPC 2000 a grain rather special, a little "metal", or crystalline but the stain remains lgre, does not pose a problem once in the mix ........ And the power is more than enough, there's gain, no worries ... ....

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for several years, and I mean it's an extremely versatile instrument with which one can do any style of music, not just the "Hip-Hop" or "R ' n'B "... It can be used as a simple bote pace or you can make a full title and squence with it ...... It remains crative and trs squenceur really well trs Designed ... That said, we must Whereas it is an instrument which the silent era relatively expensive and that demand for power peripherals oprationnel be really functional, so the price quality ratio is not gnial ......
But personally, I love the concept of MPC, and when one loves, one does not count .....