<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 5, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I went to demo maschine...and walked out with an MPC...<br><br>Reason? the guy at GC and I spent 30 minutes trying to get it to see<br>the sound card, and then the computer kept crashing...<br><br>Ok, so..my pc *is* better maintained than the one at GC (it was a mac,<br>btw) but the experience highlighted exactly why I didn't just jump<br>into maschine from the go: I spend enough time mucking with computers<br>that I really really don't want to in the studio until I have to.<br><br>So that's why I got an MPC. That and they had it miss labeled as a 1k<br>instead of a 2500, so I got it for a steel (not much more than mashine<br>actually...)<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>well a 2500 for that price is hard to argue with. I think that happened to me when I got my virus KC, they listed the price of the desktop unit :)</div><br><div>The deal right now with the maschine vs mpc thing is down to what you want to use it for. From what I have read the mpc is still king if you want to sequence external hardware gear. But maschine is supposed to get an update that fixes this. </div><div><br></div><div>I can not wait to make MPC2500 vs. Maschine videos and upload them to youtube. There will be lot's of pitched horn samples.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are some product demos that are pretty good, with the bonus of comic relief.</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h65aqWqJ2YA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h65aqWqJ2YA</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOVmkFFkHE&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOVmkFFkHE&feature=related</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVyBcKEOtCw&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVyBcKEOtCw&feature=related</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4iN0U3IdgQ&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4iN0U3IdgQ&feature=related</a></div></body></html>