sammybee

I picked up a Roland RD-700nx used from Andertons earlier this year, in mint condition for a mere £599 with stand and pedals etc. Yes it is a little bulky/heavy, but ticks all the other boxes

A couple of weeks ago 2 of my rack samplers made some fatal sounding noises (an Akai S900 and a S2800). While I love the simplicity and sound of the old Akai gear, I think the time has come to embrace something a bit more up-to-date I've spoken negatively of my experiences of modern Akai gear.. but this time I'm fully committing to the journey to bring my gear up to date & putting in the time to get really familiar with it I've plumped for the Akai MPC Live 2 along with the Akai MPK Mini mk3 for a fully portable solution that will fit in a backpack. Not sure I'm ready to sell my vintage MPC's just yet.. but looking forward to this journey with the new one

Bought an Apple watch from Lawrie. Smooth deal, arrived really quickly and even better condition than the photos suggested! Thanks very much Lawrie hope to deal again soon

I'm not sure it's possible to change a project with a midi cc message. You can certainly change a sequence with a cc message within a project It's a workaround, but it would quickly get very messy and confusing if you had multiple songs you wanted to arrange into a set within a project

I kinda get that, but these machines are mostly marketed as compositional tools

Does anyone else find themselves crippled with option paralysis when faced with these newer MPC's? I just find them so incredibly (over) complicated and distracting to the point of being un-musical.. I just seemed never to get anything done with them. I used to have the MPC Live and latterly the MPC One (both sold) and found the same issue with both of them I find I get a lot more done with my MPC 2000xl's and Isla S2400 which i use just as drum/percussion sampling drum machines/midi sequencers, recording all my instruments straight into Logic

Bob bought a mixer off me, super quick payment, excellent communication - definitely recommend, deal with confidence. Thanks Bob!

On the contrary, I've received excellent out of warranty support from other companies... just Focusrite who were particularly poor

I strongly counsel against buying an (expensive) Focusrite interface; I bought a Clarett 4Pre (used) and it blew up after a couple of months use. Whilst you might think thats the luck of the draw, Focusrite support didn't really offer much in the way of support for an (supposedly premium) interface that was only a couple of years old - just the possibility of a (paid for) repair at a 3rd party with no guarantees that even after paying £££ for that it would even be repairable.