jahrome said:
This is a software based discussion. Lets not talk about hardware options....especially since Roland makes you pay over $300 for 8 analog outputs (which are standard on the 2500/5000) and to also give you access to the RBUS port. The RBUS port is technology no company wanted to use so Roland's answer is for you to spend another $300 to convert the RBUS digital signal to ADAT (so you can use it with modern equipment). ADAT is already standard on the 5K.
You're a funny guy... you start a thread and then think of some rules that make no sense. Why? Why should it be about software? Because the MV mostly has the MPC5k dominated when it comes to hardware?
If you'd really be interested in the MV, you would have gone to the shop, tried it... and probably bought one. Please stop starting these nonsense threads that only cause fanboy behavior that makes no sense at all.
Truth is, you seem to be looking for some kind of justification for your purchase of the MPC5k... because otherwise you would have left the whole comparison thing alone. Again, it makes no sense and only generates crap. There's enough crap on the internet already.
It is long overdue for Roland to release a workstation since the MV was released over 5 years ago. But they still need to fix their current workstation, the Fantom G.
What's up with this bash that makes no sense at all looking at the facts? It's not overdue, there's no such thing as overdue when a new version isn't announced. The latest firmware updates and also the latest gear are pretty much awesome. Sure there might be some bugs, but fixes those are a continues process, until it's pretty much bug-free ( like the MV-8800!!! ). Such things take a little bit of time, but really Akai has a worse name when it comes to nasty bugs, trust me.
Anyways, there will be a new MV (it's far too successful to just disappear now) and there also will be new Fantoms (same story)... in fact, Roland has been busy in other areas a lot recently. So it only makes sense that there's time between new versions of their main gear line. It's just like Akai has been looking more into midi controllers and not-so sampler-like gear.
In the end and this is what actually truly counts for actual artists... the gear that has been released by Roland never really had show-stopping bugs that prevented us from making music.
Think about that for a minute in comparison to the MPC5K release and it's bugs. Which you claim to not have had if I remember correctly.