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Akai Professional MPC5000 Sampling Workstation

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Akai Professional MPC5000 Sampling Workstation
Key Features
  • 8-Track Streaming Hard Disk Recording
  • 650MB of Sounds
  • 64MB 64-Voice Drum/Phrase Sampler
  • CF Slot (up to 32GB)
Akai has taken all best features from their MPC series samplers from the last 20 years and put them all together in their flagship, the MPC5000. This sampling workstation includes an 8-track streaming hard disk recorder, a 20-voice, 3-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 ppq resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, and 64 continuous sample tracks. Custom tailor your sounds with 4FX buses with 2FX available per bus. The 64 voice drum/phrase sampler has 64MB of memory and is expandable to 192MB.
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Akai Professional MPC5000 Overview

Akai has taken all best features from their MPC series samplers from the last 20 years and put them all together in their flagship, the MPC5000. This sampling workstation includes an 8-track streaming hard disk recorder, a 20-voice, 3-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 ppq resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, and 64 continuous sample tracks. Custom tailor your sounds with 4FX buses with 2FX available per bus. The 64 voice drum/phrase sampler has 64MB of memory and is expandable to 192MB.

64-voice drum/phrase sampler with 64MB memory built-in, expandable up to 192MB RAM.
Three-oscillator virtual analog synth engine with built-in arpeggiator
Includes over 300 Virtual Analog synth presets
Built-in hard disk drive with optional CD-R/DVD drive available plus USB 2.0 connectivity
Use Chop-Shop 2.0 for slicing stereo loops into individual samples with automatic assignment
Large, backlit 240 x 128 hinged LCD display
Sample library of 650MB of sounds provided by Loopmasters.com

Akai Professional MPC5000 Specs

Triggers
16 trigger pads
Polyphony
64
Multitimbral
Not specified by the manufacturer
Data Format
SEQ, WAV, PGM, SND,
Sampling Rate
44.1kHz
Recording Time
12m 48sec. (64MB, MONO), 38m24sec. (192MB, MONO)
Presets
128
User Memory
64-192MB
Effects
4 stereo busses with 2 stereo effects per buss, and 4 band EQ/Compressor
Sequencer
Maximum events:     100,000 notes

Resolution:     960 parts per 1/4-note

Sequences:     99

Tracks per sequence:     64

MIDI output channels:     64 (16 channels x 4 outputs)

Song mode:     20 songs, 250 steps per song

Drum pad:     16 (velocity and pressure sensitive)

Drum pad banks:     4

Sync mode:     MIDI clock, MIDI Time Code

Transport Controls:     MIDI Machine Control

Controllers
16 (velocity and pressure sensitive)
Connectors
Record input (L and R):     MIC/ 1/4-inch Combo x 2 balanced -40dBu, input impedance 11k ohms; RCA with PHONO preamp,

Max. Input level:     +10dBu

Digital     RCA-pin x 1 S/PDIF

Stereo output (L and R):     1/4-inch phone x 2 balanced +11dBu, output impedance 1k Ohms,

Max. output level:     +22dBu

8 individual outputs:     1/4-inch phone x 8 balanced +11dBu, output impedance 1k Ohms,

Max. output level:     +22dBu

Phones output:     1/4-inch stereo phone x 1, 200mW / 100 ohms

Digital output:     RCA-pin x 1 S/PDIF

ADAT Optical:     x 1 (8 Channels)

MIDI inputs:     5-pin DIN x 2

MIDI outputs:     5-pin DIN x 4

USB:     Slave connector x 1, USB MASS STORAGE CLASS support

Footswitches:     1/4-inch x 2

 

Expansion Slots
EXM-E3:     128MB expansion memory card (Upgrades unit to 192MB total)

CDM-25:     CDR/DVD Drive

Sample RAM
64MB
Storage
Memory Card Slot: Compact Flash (The size of the compact flash card that MPC5000 can handle is from 32MB to 2GB)
Display
240 x 128 dot graphic LCD w/back light
Dimensions
18 x 16.1 x 3.4" (406.4 x 407.98 x 85.7mm)
Weight
18.2 lbs (8.25kg)
Packaging Info
Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
23.4 x 21.3 x 9.8"

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