“It’s studio clear out time and here we have the holy grail of old school samplers – the AKAI MPC60 Mk1. I bought it in a fit of gear lust but it doesn’t get the use it deserves unfortunately.
It’s in great condition for its age with a few marks here and there as you can see on the pictures. It comes with the rare UK plug that is hard to get hold off.
The unit has the memory expansion fitted taking the sample time up to a healthy 26.2 seconds of pure 12 bit thump.
It also has the very latest os fitted, Vimana 3.15b to be specific which has a superior list of features over the last linn os. With the audio compression feature you can compress the samples in memory to half size thus giving you double the sample time so your 26.2 seconds becomes 52.4 seconds.
For a full OS feature list just google vimana 3.15b.
It had the backlight foil replaced a couple of years ago and it is still very bright for when you are working in low light conditions.
The disk drive was replaced with a reconditioned drive in 2018 used little since if at all.
The build quality of the first 2 linn mpc’s are really something to behold.. they feel solid and well made and this is the reason they have lasted the test of time unlike many of the newer cheap made plastic mpc’s which seem to just fall to bits from my experience.
The sound is special…. your drums will be sounding fat and punchy and you can always pitch samples into it similar to the sp12 /1200 if you want to add even more grit and extend your timing.” Click here to search for MPCs on eBay