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OMG holy christ, Justin (JB), has finally has come around and admitted that that the MPC2000XL can accomplish the same thing as the 60! This is a major breakthrough! I am delighted that you'll now be standing up for the 2kxl instead of making disparaging marks against it.
Lets also not forget that it has the wave display on the MPC2000XL which makes it much easier to take out pops and clicks in old vinyl with the "silence section" edit function. I do it all the time, since you can see the actual click and where exactly it is in the sample (loop or hit) you justs isolate as small a section as possible (that still has the entire waveform of the click) and silence it, there's no perceived section of silence in the sample. This would be time consuming if not impossible to do on an MPC3000 and below.
...and yes, the MPC60 sounds a little better, but with the 2000XL you can push samples down the scsi chain to the pc fo editing in wavelab, soundforge etc...can't do that on the 60.
Personally, I like the interface on the 2kxl better then the 3000, honestly. The few extra menus do not hinder me, even thought the 3000 has more buttons there's also menus to go through once you press those so it's not easier to me. anyway there not all that different (UI's atleast), they're all easy to use besides the 60 with the old O.S.
..also for me atleast the slice function (2kxl) is invaluable for when you're not using a pc along with it.
I give the 60 4 out of 5 by todays standards because of the lack of sampling time which I do consider to be problem, I chop my samples extensively BUT having to limit myself to short samples initially is not helpful IMO. Especially not 5 seconds (old o.s. on 60), not as bad as the ridiculous 2.5 seconds per sample on the sp1200 though. Here's to bashing old gear that I love, cheers...I'm still getting an emax mk1 someday and the 60 is classic because of it's build quality.
MPC2000XL RULES....for now
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