I'm upgrading my studio this year. Finally its time to put my old MPC60 to rest, LCD screen and pads are worn out.

I started out using Roger Linn's LM 1 back in the 80's, them moved to Akai's MPC60. Love it to death.
Their new beast, the MPC5000 looks awesome. Has anyone used this yet? Has anyone seen it in production or at show?

Hey,
I've got a Firestudio and I want to get some sort of a headphone mixer so that at least 4 people have separate headphone mixes while tracking. I pretty sure the Firestudio can do this. Any recommendations?

Thanks

I just picked up an old Yamaha MIDI foot controller that I wanted to use with Ableton, but whenever I try to map an Ableton control to any of the buttons, they all come up as "pitchbend" as if each button is sending the exact same midi message. Nothing happens when I press a button I mapped either, despite Ableton still seeing the activity and allowing it to be mapped.

I went to Guitar Center today with a CD of stuff I'm fairly familiar with and I tried out every monitor they had hooked up. I liked the Yamaha hs80m's, the bx8a's, the krk rp8's, and the krk vxt's(these were best). I liked all of the vxt's, but the 4's seem best suited to my needs considering the scale of what I'm doing. I've started to look around on ebay for a pair.

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What should I buy first. I have a computer with 2 gigs of RAM 1/4 inch input and Sonar 6 Producer Edition. What next?

Anybody have any experience with this mic for male vocals?

I have owned my Firepod for around 15 months and recently it has started to make some strange clicking sounds. These do not come out in the recording except if being picked up by a mic and it seems to work fine although there is a clicking sound coming from the unit that sounds as I wrote in the subject line like a Geiger counter when coming close to a radiation source (as in the movies!).

I'm running a Korg D3200 as my recording base. Im going to be running Sennheiser HD 280 pro can's as a basic setup for eq for guitar, vocals etc:

I hope some of your opinions will help me decide on some upgrades to the voice-over DAW where I work (media production and post). We have 5 nice MacPros, but the VO machine is a G4. It should be enough for the audio we need to do. The interface is an older MOTU 828 (not mk).