*UKING WICKED MACHINE!! NO exception! None! Heavy! Serious requirement for making R and B, Hip Hop, Garage, any urban or mainstream sounds. Roger Linn is a cat! 10 out of 10.

ex-owner of near all akai samplers, which are ok, but this one BLOWS the socks off the others!! Hands down!

If you can find it , buy it. Forget PC's /Macs's etc.. this is the real deal.

To be honest I DONT believe that Akai can recreate this product ever again. Simple to use, quick, 32MB is extremely large memory, more than ample. MPC4000 only glorified pc expressionless box. IF you want a standard sampler use any akai. If you want Phat sounds, real deal MPC Roger Linn Range.

my first experience with an mpc was about 9 years ago ,the mpc6011. it made me some pretty sucessfull records.after which i then decided on moving up to cubase atari then mac which pretty much made my downfall in the music biz .i just found my inspiration lost since moving into software seqs & wasting about a year on about 4 finished tracks. anyway last year i thought fuck this crap im gonna either give up 4 good or i have to do something drastic to my studio to get back my creativity.so i sold my mac g3/g4 half of my synths (i'm now left with 2 only) & got an mpc 3000 le .it pretty much changed my life ,everything feels right again even a crap tune has something good about it . i liked it so much i decided to get an mpc 2kxl & used it for about 6 months before i realized that the mpc3k le just had something more special about it .the sound of everything just had a bit more grunt & power & definetly more bass response.now the 2 kxl is still a good machine & more suited to drum'n'bass (160/180bpms) because it has a tighter more straight feel than the mpc3k le which seems to be more suited to slower bpms(140 to 80) for garage r'n'b/hip hop & in my experince has more of the classic sound of the mpc 60/60mk2 which im very much used to. ______________

That's what i need to read and for what i spend my time cruising. It's all ideas and usability!