Akai MPC2500!

Citation : - le mode multi (instruments multisamples )

The Akai MPC2500 Music Production Center is coming soon. On August 31, 2005 I was going on a trip to Tokyo, for the labor day weekend, to buy some gear and see what's new in Akihabara, it's a town in Tokyo that has nothing but electronics, it's about 15 blocks from computers to computer parts to memory to musical gear I love that town. So as I always do I called my friend Mr. Nakamura to see what up, he's the head engineer and designer for AKAI. He tells me he just got back in town and to come see the new MPC 2500. So the next day I went to AKAI headquarters in Yokohama City and when I saw it all I could say was "PHATT". We sat down and I asked a lot of questions and he filled me in on everything we played with it for about an hour. It's got a 64-Track MIDI Sequencer and a 32-voice 16bit Stereo Digital Sampler. They moved the pads in the center and their rock solid with velocity and pressure sensitive.
This MPC lets you sample more efficiently. There are 2 internal effects processors and they can be used simultaneously. They have a wide range of effects, such as reverb, bit grunger, chorus, phasers, flying pan, 4-band EQ, compressor, delay and a phase shifter. Real-time control is provided by two note variation sliders and two Q-Link knobs. Q-link knobs can be separately assigned to allow flexible to any sample or midi parameter, just like the MPC4000 and MPC1000, with real-time performance control of a wide variety of selectable parameters. These parameters include level, pan, filter cut-off and
resonance, tuning, LFO(low frequency oscillator) speed depth which is so cool, all effect parameters and more. Each assignable Q-Link knob can generate
MIDI controller data so that all performance information can be recorded and played back from within a sequence.
The Q-Link sequencer allows cyclic modulation programming. 2 MIDI inputs and 4 MIDI outputs come standard enabling 64 external MIDI channel operation. In addition, the MPC2500 can individually control its onboard sampler up to 64 Parts, allowing users to assign a different program on each track. A large moveable LCD screen allows a clear view of sequence data displaying features like a piano roll, or a drum machine 'grid'. Continuous MIDI data can be shown as well as edited graphically.
The MPC2500 comes with 16MB of onboard memory which can be expanded up to 128 MB of RAM via the optional EXM128 memory card, same as the mpc1000.
The MPC2500 has the capability of an optional internal 80GB Hard Disk, but come with a 40 GB Hard Drive, and CD-RW drives, it reads sample CDs and loads them fast.