Hmm... The meat eaters vs. vegetarian thing wasn't to imply that the MPC didn't have meat, only that meat eaters don't care about vegetables, no matter how good they taste. It works the other way around too.
Regardless, foleycore is lacking serious conceptual knowledge if he's trolling workstation keyboard forums. He needs to move his blathering over here:
http://forums.rolandclan.info/index.php ... _all&fid=3
Or here:
http://www.mvnation.com/phpBB/viewforum ... 66efa93deb
the VA in the MPC5000 was directly lifted from the Alesis Fusion synth which was the best virtual analog i have ever heard and is itself based on the Alesis Ion which got rave reviews.
I thought it was Alesis and
Waldorf. Guess you pulled the whole Waldorf and Sony Oxford thing out of thin air, huh?
you have your facts wrong, as you can indeed pick a sound or any group of sounds from a single pad, in fact you can PLAY a sound or any GROUP of sounds from a single pad.
Not like a workstation. You can't, say, pull up a piano patch and a string patch, plug in a keyboard, and play both simultaneously in a live context. All routing is performed through the sequencer, and you're only playing the destination for the currently selected track. The only way to layer a piano and strings is to custom-build a multilayered multisample, which is
extremely time consuming.
Again, this isn't a disadvantage; it simply reflects the inherent differences between boxes like the MPC and proper keyboard workstations.
It has been well proven that sounds that are compressed DO NOT translate well to extra compressed formats such as MP3, AAC etc so you've got trouble buddy boy.
Huh? Proven where? Give me one source. Besides, Roland's scheme is
nothing like MP3 compression. You might want to read up on what data compression really means and how various schemes differ.
your fantom doesn't have grid recording but the 5000 does plus we have step piano roll pattern and linear, are you telling me akai hasn't worked out a streamlined user interface, i think you better wake up out of that misguided dream. you're getting it all wrong.
Sigh... Foleycore, buddy. Seriously. Are you scared of the MV or something? Why do you keep mentioning the Fantom-G? It's like you're picking on some freshman, while hopelessly oblivious of his 250-pound buff brother standing behind him.
One more time: Compare the MPC with the MV-8800, because they're the
same TYPE of product.
Truth be told, I think Akai made a smart move—They returned to their roots. Instead of trying to compete with vastly superior software sequencers (or the MV's sequencer), they focused more on simplicity and elegance. Their primary market is existing MPC users who can't bother learning a new workflow (which, admittedly, is huge). The new features are welcome, and the thing sounds very good. It's still not a workstation (because it's not
supposed to be), and it's not an MV-8800 either. It's the best MPC Akai's ever made, which for many, is good enough.