On 06/07/2005, Nicholas Cervantes from Chicago wrote:
825.00 new
Stability: 10
Usabilty: 10
Sound: 10
Value: 10
Overall: 10
The 1000 is very easy to use. Having the USB option is also very nice because you can load to and from the memory card by dragging and dropping files. As long as you have a computer, Audacity sample edit program (which is free), and the 128 MB upgrade (don't waste your money on the memory made by AKAI, it costs three times as much), the MPC 1000 can even be compared to the 4000. Besides, who needs 512 MB of RAM? If you make beats you know that you'll never need that much. 128 is plenty. You can even sample Main Out and record your beat to the MPC as a WAV file and burn it directly to CD. This MPC is well worth the money. I've been using it for a year and have had no problems.