What new capabilities does the MPC2000XL boast to justify its gargantuan status? Or is it just a marketing ploy? Ch‑Ch‑Ch‑Changes This was thanks to the addition of looping and enveloping for percussion samples and tempo matching between loops. Then, I decided that the MPC range had finally caught up with where other manufacturers had been when they went out of business 10 years before. So does the same massive increase in capacity denoted by XL hold true in the world of sampling drum machines? Akai have just adopted this suffix for the new version of their MPC2000, a unit which I originally reviewed in SOS April 1997. Where are the massive people for whom these XL shirts are made (apart from in 'All‑You‑Can‑Eat' American diners)? It seems that the jump between large and extra large in the minds of clothing manufacturers would be better expressed as 'big' and 'gargantuan'. Yet when I try on these XL shirts, I find they could often comfortably accommodate two people my size (if not three). As a result, whenever anybody buys me clothes or gives me promotional T‑shirts at trade shows, they invariably settle on the XL size. Now he takes a look at its successor to see how much more you get when you buy XL.Īnyone who knows me will tell you I have always been a big bloke and, as the years march by, a constant diet of fine food and fine wine has only added to how I started out. Three years ago Paul Wiffen concluded that Akai had brought the concept of the sampling drum machine up to date with the MPC2000.
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