Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Quality is questionable. It froze up a few times with first few productions. You have to manage your samples and uploading samples directly from folders that have been downloaded from sites, CD's or any other source is not recommended. Modify your sample and cut it to its smallest form for the best run quality. There is nothing worse than to be making a production and the thing freezes without you being able to go back and save it. Did a little research, the freezing was supposed to be fixed with the new OS 2.0, but IDK. Other than that the quality of the machine is great!!! Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Sample chopping is amazing. Have not yet tried the time stretching. The effects feature could be a little more in depth. The actual pads and controls are great. The sound quality is as good as you make it. As long as you have quality samples, you will have a quality sound! I'm just now breaking it in so I have only scratched the surface. Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? I was a software guy so the switch took a little time but once everything was recognized, a 10 year old could use. If you understand and recognize sound samples, then you can use this machine Sound How is the tone? Sound is wonderful!! enough said Value Was this item an overall good value? Yes, it is a great value but if you a producer, its only a piece of the pie

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Yes. Everytime I turn it on I discover something new about it. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Much larger screen, controls oon the side for bulit in snyth, and effects. Acolor screen Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Pretty easy. I feel if you use one you have used them all. I own every mpc since the 2000 it's pretty much the same. I love the new chop shop for samples they added. It took me a few minutes and I really mean minutes to understand that you need a compact fash card installed to get the usb mode to work. but once you install a flash card and you mount in usb mode your mpc shows up on the desktop like a portable drive. at that point you can add any audio file. Thats how iI converted all my old mpc sounds over to the 5ooo. you just drag and drop it's easy. Sound How is the tone? The mpc is classic in not just hip hop, but alsop R&B, POP, ROCK, ALTERNITIVE, AND ANY GENRE YOU CAN THINK OF. The sound from all mpc's are great but I can definately hear a difference in the punch in the kicks and the crisp in the snares and claps when using an mpc. Each step up for some reason sounds better. Value Was this item an overall good value? An mpc is always going to be an mpc, but with the added sound on the harddrive, as well as the sounds on the flash rom it's oncredible.