Comments on: Petition: Akai MPC1000 Owners Want Pad Solution

By: LB

LB — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:54:18 +0000

Er, hang on a moment … are you all forgeting sellers obligations under the Sale of Goods Act/Legislation - u know, where a product must be ‘fit for purpose’ and of ‘merchantable quality’. These are not just talk but legal requirements placed on the sellers of consumer products. If you ask me, Akai, thus far have been very succesful in ducking any legal accountablity for putting out MPC1000 with obvious and serious design flaws that leave the product in breach of statutory requirements. Someone needs to take the arse to court and sue the bas.ards - then you will see how quickly they change their approach !!

By: filterthing

filterthing — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:59:57 +0000

for the post above about returning the machine when it was first purchased, as NYM said it is a problem that gets worse over time. In other words by the time the pads die, the warranty is over. NYM is the expert, he has put a lot of time into it. I go by what he says.

By: dinerdog

dinerdog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:34:14 +0000

I wish Roger Linn would just make another machine of high quality. This pisses me off cause I wasted so much time trying to get the 1000 to feel “just right” and it never did. I returned 2 @ GC before I found one where the pads were a little more even touch-wise. The guys at GC were looking at me like I was imaging it. I wish I didn’t sell my 200xl for this. I’m just gonna have to pay for the upgrade or I won’t use the 1000 at all till it’s right. It’s been in the box for a while. It’s all those hours we’ve wasted just to get it working the way all the other MPs did that bothers me. F%$@ Akai

By: dead_red_eyes

dead_red_eyes — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:49:05 +0000

@ King Vitamin,

You’re missing the point tho. They have needs for a hardware sampler/sequencer. Not running a program on a laptop and using a pad controller, which you will need an interface for as well. That’s a lot of cash right there, while the MPC1000 is just $1000.

By: nym

nym — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:23:09 +0000

“what are you going to do? void your warranty by opening it up?”

nobody can tell if you open it up. plus, there are other ways of telling whether or not the pads are new.

i love my mpc1000, and i recommend it to a strange breed of producer like me.

however, if it wasn’t being continuously coded by jj, i would have outgrown it by fall 2006. jj is the reason why this machine is waaaaay worth it. people say “oh, there are softwares that are X more capable” but to an extent that is not true. a machine is only as capable as the space in between it and its user.

By: King Vitamin

King Vitamin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:36:43 +0000

Ableton and a pad controller will run laps around any mpc if you’re looking for an alternative 4lefts.

By: 4lefts

4lefts — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:59:19 +0000

i’d love an mpc, but, well, i’d love to boycott akai too. so what’s the alternative? anyone tried the sp-555? i heard the sp-606 was a bit shit, but i’ve never used one.
the thing about getting a 1k is the worry that you’ll get old stock…
me:”is this one of the new ones with the pad upgrade?”
salesbloke: “oh, yeah, definitely.”
what are you going to do? void your warranty by opening it up?
and from what i’ve heard, the 500 has all kinds of software bugs…

By: Dr. BS

Dr. BS — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:44:48 +0000

I don’t care about the MPC 1000, but I wish Akai would Open Source the OS for the 2000xl, so someone could write a new OS a la JJ OS for the 1000…

the 2kxl is perfect, but what it need is a switchable filter (hipass, lopass, bandpass instead of just lp), higher resolution tuning/beatmatching of samples and auto-sync of delaytimes to BPM (for the effects-board).

and one more thing Akai/Alesis/Numark: I’m still waiting on a rackmount version of the micron with more outs…

By: Aaron Flav

Aaron Flav — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:01:04 +0000

I got my mpc 1000 in august of 2006. Almost all of my pads died on me so I had to replace them with the same faulty pads. Which barely even work now. There’s no way I’m spending 200 dollars on something that should have been replaced along time ago.

By: boxtones

boxtones — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:24:45 +0000

some of you beatmakers out there gotta be lawyers or somehow involved in law. Help us out!!! i’ll give you my drum disks