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Akai MPC 500

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Jack White

Jack White is using the Akai MPC 500 at 3:43 in the teaser video of his third album https://youtu.be/QClzlZTXj4Y?t=3m43s.
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Mac DeMarco

you can see @ 0:46 the mpc 500 on the floor.
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Jamie xx

In this video of The XX performing in London, the MPC 500 can be seen from 0:00 throughout, used to perform drums by Jamie XX.
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Alex Trimble

The MPC 500 is what Trimble uses for the Synth-y sound in the pre-chorus of the Eat that Up. Before it was used as an organ on this song before he had a Nord Electro-3.
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Prefuse 73

Prefuse 73 can be seen with an Akai MPC 500 in this photo.
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Tobacco

Pic of Tobacco's live setup, MPC-500 clearly visible (although Tobacco has added the 666 before it!)
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Teebs

There was a picture of the MPC 500 in his studio, but he adds about Prefuse 73 that "He's an MPC guy, and I've never been an MPC guy. But he was like, "I have seven," so he gave me one." The SP-404 remains his main piece of equipment.
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Black Moth Super Rainbow

In this picture, Tom Fec of BMSR is seen using an MPC 500
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Fjaak

At 0:33 you can see the 500 spotted on top of a studio monitor
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Hot Sugar

Proof on YouTube at the 2:48 mark.
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Detroit Swindle

The baby MPC has arrived... #keeponswindling
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Mark Farina

I’m an old school MPC guy. I love these. As well as the MPC4000 I have a 2500 and a 500, and my old MPC2000 too. I used to just make everything on that, like my Landscape EP on Panhandle.
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Sonique (Colombia)

Use in studio for sampling from vinyl and as MIDI sequencer
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Terekke

My live set-up is exactly the same as my studio set-up, minus a couple keyboards: Roland SH-101 Roland TR-707 MFB 522 MFB Fliterbox EHX 2880 loop pedal EHX reverb pedal Casio SK-1 Yamaha DX100 MPC500
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Bomba Estéreo

The item can be seen 15:34 into this video. Live Session @KEXP Seattle. Apr. 24, 2014.
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Jan Jelinek

Jan Jelinek REQUIRED EQUIPMENTS : 1 Mackie 1202 VLZ3 (alternative: Mackie 1202 VLZ Pro, 1402 VLZ3/VLZ Pro) Ca. 6 power connectors (german) / Power source (240 volt) 1 Small desklight 1 Stereomonitoring OUT PUTS to PA 2x Mono XLR (Main Output of Mackie 1202 mixer to PA) (2x D.I. boxes would be needed) ARTIST'S EQUIPMENTS : 1 MPC500 1 Technosaurus Effexon & Microcon 3 Guitarpedals + diverse modules 1 Hohner Guitaret
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Ayatollah

Ayatollah can be seen using a MPC 500 in the Rhythm Roulette video. (2:07 in the video)
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Cosmo

Visibile nel video.
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Dorian Cox

> Working on looped vocals for my show at The Castle in Manchester this Thursday. Come along for psychedelic kitchen sink dramas. On the left side, the Akai MPC500 can be seen.
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LoneLady (Julie Campbell)

On [this page](http://lonelady.co.uk/blog/fixing-the-unseen-days-snapshots-from-studio-life/) from her website, Julie recalls, "...I relearned simple things like how to programme a Roland TR 505 and a Yamaha RX17 drum machine, and how to make, load and assign samples onto an MPC 500 Akai sampler, and its updated version, the Akai MP8."
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7 Akai MPC 500 Reviews

craig_frost

263

Great sampler/sequencer/drum machine

Does everything I need with a small footprint/price and great portability. I'm using MPC Maid on my Mac to arrange the samples and cutting them before upload so I don't care that it has only 2 lines of display. It would be nice to have foot pedals like the 1000 but I think I can live without. Only problem so far is I have yet to figure out how to do program changes on my synths from this. Thinking about getting another 500 as part backup and to let me use them both to always have the next song loaded DJ style. Or maybe get the 1000.

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daastle

15

I wish it was a bit more obvious

Bought this instead of a playstation when I was 15 because I saw Chemical Brothers mention it in their webpage for their 'Push the Button' album.

I used it a bit here and there but it never seemed to make sense due to its non obvious menus which you basically need a degree in to understand, or at least 2 weeks of reading manuals.

Also, synchronizing the midi to Ableton took like 3 days.

Its an old piece of kit so its obvious it won't be digitised as well as other newer MPC's but I've only ever used this to make beats on the spot rather than create loops as I know is possible if you are some kind of genius.

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over 3 years ago
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kyunkyun33333

So you're too lazy to learn and want to be spoonfed. Good to know.

over 2 years ago

szczepaxn

260

Beats & rhymes

It's great for outdoor work Built-in sampler - big torque You will take your drums to the SD card Headphones, batteries and you're free to go Creativity from now on! Wherever you want! YO!

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hardwaretechno

117

It is small but it works :)

I used my MPC 500 to play loops on it , also as a master midi clock. Just export my loops from ableton and use "MPC maid" to transfer nad program . It is 16 bit wav but it has unique sound . Everything you put into MPC it sounds better .

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nipponcomputer98

115

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over 2 years ago
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nicccccccc

456

battery-powered king!

had to switch the pads and the tact switches, but it was worth it! battery time not so good, but what can you expect. does everything it needs to do. I can bang out long triphop tracks on this.. doesn't have to be kick hat snare beats ;)

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10 months ago
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ontologyjunglist

196

A bit tricky, but it gets the job done.

Got this sampler around mid 2017 to use as a sampler and sequencer, got some use out of it, good for taking around as a portable beatmaking machine. Kinda limited however, there's no resampling function, every sample is at 44.1k, but this made me want to experiment with it more, made me want to try the old techniques of speeding up a record to 78 rpm then slowing the sample back down on the MPC to give it some grittyness. Sequencing works well, you have a menu that allows you to form full songs out of separate sequences, along with a "timing correct" function which can be deactivated if you want. You have plenty of MIDI functions such as setting the MPC's MIDI in Channel, you can also assign each track to a different MIDI out channel if you want. Anyway, if you want to start off with a good portable sampler/sequencer that gets the creative juices flowing, then this is the sampler for you.

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