In conclusion, I have to say that the Akai MPC 3000 is a great piece of gear. Not because it does everything and has a million functions, but because its designers have thought out very thoroughly what it ought to be able to do, and then have made it do it as simply as possible without frills and without hassles. I cant promise that it can replace your high end computer sequencer because you will probably have become used to the facilities it offers, but you must consider whether all that extra baggage is weighing you down, because contained inside the MPC 3000 there may be everything you need.
The unit tested was a preproduction model, software version 3.0.
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