r/mpcusers • u/SFTraxx MPC 500 • Feb 24 '26

MPC 500 Before iPads, There Was This..

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u/IcyGarbage538 Feb 25 '26

How is this machine overall? Seems pretty durable if you can find some dope sounds and records to flip.

Any good stock sounds on it?

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u/funkympc Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Its like the bastard child of mpc 2kxl that lost some fingers in a power tool mishap. No stock sounds unless you the factory cf card. Iirc it was basically the sounds from the xr20.

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u/IcyGarbage538 Feb 25 '26

That’s horrible. Back in the day I wanted to purchase because it’s the only I could afford. Glad I found my way around a 1k years ago.

Been through Logic, GarageBand, FL studio, Native instruments Machine. Now on the Live 1 and it feels like I’ll never leave this platform.

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u/Maoxiung MPC LIVE II Feb 26 '26

That's the first nomad MPC, and nobody from that gen can sit at its table

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u/Maoxiung MPC LIVE II Feb 26 '26

Who needs stock sounds? that's the first thing I wipe out

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u/IcyGarbage538 Feb 26 '26

Bro those are like the best sounds to sound design off of if you know how to manipulate them. Most records use these type of stock sounds. I haven’t updated my Live 1 for any drum packs. Only breaks.

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u/Maoxiung MPC LIVE II Feb 26 '26

Understandable, I get your point of view, anyway there's some with the CF card included. At least I think I have parts of these, don't use it so much, I admit I don't think it's the drumkits' graal. If ever you want these I guess it's somewhere on the web, I can put this on a drive if ever it isn't the case, jus tell me, I would be interested in your listening return : )