I’m loving my new mpc2500. Its got alot of great qualities including the rock solid midi timing, the legendary swing, the build quality (apart from that plastic data wheel), but what impresses me most is the workflow. Its so easy to get around the system that you just can’t help but make music. Its simple, but that’s great… it forces you to focus on the music.

I can think of a few improvement I’d like to have. Auditioning samples from disk whilst your track is playing would be handy, some better tools for editing multiple Pads perhaps, and to be able to play more than one sequence at once in a song. Akai have quite a good reputation for releasing nice extra features in free updates to their operating systems, so maybe some of these will appear one day!

Bottom line, I can’t imagine anyone who enjoys creative sequencing, beat making, producing or remixing would be anything but impressed. I sold my favourite synth to get some cash for this thing, and so far, I’m not regretting it at all :D

I can feel some hip-hop comin’ on…