akai mpc 2000 lcd screen made in china

These screens utilize Super-twisted nematic display technology for a nice crisp and bright display available in Vibrant blue and White/blue backlights. Unlike the original design these are made to last.

These screens will fit in the MPC2000 or MPC2000XL. However, to make our screens work the best in both units, each unit uses its own firmware. So if you have an MPC2000 you will need one for the MPC2000 and if you have an MPC2000XL you need to order for the MPC2000XL.

These screens can also be inverted by using a jumper pin. This inverted mode will make the background white with blue letters, see INVERTED picture. The jumper pins are not included, if you have any questions please email us at sales@mpcstuff.com

PLEASE NOTE: We do recommend that you have the newest OS systems for your unit for optimal operation. For the MPC2000XL that is 1.14 or 1.20 (MCD Drive) and for the MPC2000 its the 1.72 version.These screens have been extensively tested and work great. In testing we have noticed one small thing when loading extra long samples, the bar that says load will show only half when loading. This does not effect the usage at all and the bar is not something that needs to be fully shown anyway. Its only the screen that shows the bar half. The sample is fully loaded just the same. This does not effect anything with the unit other than a small visual change for a split second.

If you have an MPC2000 (Not XL) if you have the 8 outs glitching of the screen in sample modes can be apparent it will not change the audio or function but glitching can occur visually on the LCD. So we do not recommend the 8 outs installed on the MPC2000 (not XL) unless you are ok with the screen glitching visually. If you have any questions, please email us at sales@mpcstuff.com

Brand new LCD replacement screens are finally here! After 2 long years of constant work, MPC Stuff has successfully remade the Akai MPC2000 / MPC2000XL V2 LCD Screens. These screens are outfitted with Super-twisted nematic display technology, for a clear and crisp, bright display. Using advanced technology, these units are made to last, unlike the original LCD screens that only lasted a few years. The new design does not have any update speed issues or major glitches in the display, as the V.1 displays did. These units work great, giving your MPC a brand new look and feel.

These screens work with the MPC2000 or MPC2000XL. Please note, each MPC unit uses its own firmware. So if you have an MPC2000 you will need to order one for the MPC2000, if you have an MPC2000XL you need to order for the MPC2000XL. Please make a note in your order what MPC unit you are working with.

These screens can also be inverted by using a jumper select pin. This inverted mode will make the background white with blue letters. The jumper pins are not included, if you have any questions please email us at bignoisempc@gmail.com

Note: We recommend you load the latest Operating Systems into your MPC for optimal operation. For the MPC2000XL that’s version 1.14 or 1.20 OS and for the MPC2000 that’s version 1.72 OS. These screens have been extensively tested in our lab.

During testing we have noticed one small thing when loading extra long samples, the bar that says load will show only half when loading. This does not effect the usage at all and the bar is not something that needs to be fully shown for functionality. Its only the screen that shows the bar half. The sample is fully loaded just the same. This does not effect anything with the unit other than a small visual change for a split second. Also, important if you have an MPC2000 Classic, if you have the 8 outs; glitching of the screen in sample modes can be apparent, it will not change the audio or function but glitching can occur visually on the LCD. If you have any questions, please email us at bignoisempc@gmail.com

The Akai Professional MPC2000XL MIDI Production Center combines a 64-Track MIDI Sequencer and a 32-voice Stereo Digital Sampler, with 16 velocity and pressure sensitive rubber pads, providing rock solid sequencing and drum programming combined with powerful sampling facilities in one convenient and portable desktop unit.

The MPC2000XL inherits many of the major features of the original MPC such as the legendary "feel" and "groove" so that you can be sure that your beats and sequences just swing. It also features the original MPC60"s intuitive transport and locate controls, the unique NOTE REPEAT function, plus new additions such as four bank keys to effectively provide 64 pads, multi-program playback, multi-track recording, simultaneous playback of a second sequence, Next Sequence key, Track Mute key, TimeStretch, Slice Sound, Resampling, plus folder file management. Add to these an improved friendly and intuitive user interface thanks to the graphic LCD, two MIDI ins and 32 MIDI channels via the two MIDI outputs, and options for multiple audio outputs, multi-effects, SMPTE Time Code and even Flash Rom memory, and you have a dependable "switch on and work" solution to computer sequencer headaches.

SO a friend of mine happened to tell me that he had an old mpc 2000 sitting in his basement and if I wanted to sell it and make some money on it, cool... if i i wanted to fix it up and use it... that"s cool too. no sweat.

SO!!!! I rubbed it down with rubbing alcohol, found the os on akai"s website and miraculously found a floppy to get it on via a burnt cd.. (pita man... but it"s so worth it) found an old zip drive with a slew of discs to plug in via SCSI, and boom. It friggin works great.

Now it"s the stripped down 2000... no ram.... no extra outputs... no efx..... but strangely enough, i"ve been wanting to start making trip hop meets modular for awhile and now i"m like well shit, I could do some damage here if i figured out this machine. I spent a few hours tonight with the mpc.... my diy modular... and a bent speak and math and WHEW BOY, once i get down how to quickly copy things around and make variations of that copy i"m set for what i would use an mpc for.

I still use it now, though more as a midi controller instead of a keyboard. I have programs setup for different scales, so I select the scale to work in and the pads are defined to go up through the scale. Keep meaning to get back into sampling on it but I haven"t yet. Just using it to record midi and jam out using the pads as mutes is great. There"s a youtube channel of a guy doing wicked stuff with an mpc2000 like this.

If you want to upgrade it the parts are quite expensive. Its probably cheaper to buy one fully loaded and sell the one you have. The ram is maybe not too bad as I think its not specific to the mpc.

I still use it now, though more as a midi controller instead of a keyboard. I have programs setup for different scales, so I select the scale to work in and the pads are defined to go up through the scale. Keep meaning to get back into sampling on it but I haven"t yet. Just using it to record midi and jam out using the pads as mutes is great. There"s a youtube channel of a guy doing wicked stuff with an mpc2000 like this.

If you want to upgrade it the parts are quite expensive. Its probably cheaper to buy one fully loaded and sell the one you have. The ram is maybe not too bad as I think its not specific to the mpc.

individual out mod is what in doing next I think. when I go to SCSI to load or format... locks up the unit so today I"m looking at the SCSI fuse and trying different SCSI drives. I saw you can do a internal flash memory mod where basically it give the 2000 an internal hard drive... lots of options!!

He"s not really using the mute function on the pads, but using the MPC to record midi parts on the fly. I like the way his timing isn"t great when playing the parts, but the mpc just brings it into the groove.

I picked up an MPC 2000 for short money a couple of years ago, but sadly I haven"t done anything with it. The LCD in mine is flaky and I think there"s a problem with the disk drive. You may have inspired me to pick up this project again…

OH man this past week i"ve spent A LOT of time with it and i"m getting pretty good with it actually. Man.. it"s seriously all i want to use for making beats. Eventually i"ll get an octatrack to mangle samples and then dump back into the mpc. I spent a few hours the other night just sampling the crap out of my bent drum machines and some modular synth stuff and i"m on the way to making some wicked programs full of samples.

I dont think the 2000 supports folders, but you can kind of get around this if you have a zip drive by giving it multiple partitions then treat each partition as a folder. I had mine setup like this until the disk and drive died!

Also realised yesterday you can trigger the sounds sampled in the mpc via external midi, so had a good session yesterday triggering samples from my modular

As for recording a whole take to one track, I"m not sure the 2000 has the feature, but I copy particular pads to seperate tracks after a live take, then I can edit, mute them seperately while having the option to do a complete performance in one go..

I used a 2000 and eventually upgraded to the 2000xl. I have a lot of love for them. Maybe they don"t have the vintage cache of the Roger Linn-era MPCs, but I like the way drums sound coming out of them. My primary issue with the original 2000 was having to load the os every time from a floppy.

If you can assign one mpc as master and send midi click and transport control to the other which is set as slave. then each performer can switch sequences, etc independently buttheir will be one overall tempo.. sounds a blast.. have fun..

Thanks sir! bringing my DIY copper paneled modular over there to blow his mine and to sample. Plan on sampling some of his hip hop kits he"s made. I"m sure audio Out of an mpc, into another is just fine

1nput0utput wrote:I picked up an MPC 2000 for short money a couple of years ago, but sadly I haven"t done anything with it. The LCD in mine is flaky and I think there"s a problem with the disk drive. You may have inspired me to pick up this project again…

I was thinking that the disk drive in my MPC 2000 was broken and I was about to go to the computer store to buy a new one. But after doing some research online, I learned that the MPC checks an OEM identifier field in the filesystem on the disk to determine whether it"s a valid boot disk. Apparently Windows clobbers this field unexpectedly. You might have a working boot disk, but as soon as you mount it on a Windows machine, Windows overwrites the OEM field and the MPC will not be able to boot from it after that. That explains why the few boot disks I had became unusable. I thought the system files might have been corrupted, so I put the disks in a Windows machine to copy the MPC system files back onto them.

The FAT type option (-F) makes a FAT12 filesystem. The OEM option (-O) sets the OEM field to MPC2000. (The string in this field must be eight characters long, so note the space at the end.) Change the format option (-f) depending on the size of this disk in kB. 1440 will be the most common. N is the number of the appropriate device label under /dev, of course.

Akai (Japanese: 赤井, pronouncedconsumer electronics. It was founded as Akai Electric Company Ltd in Tokyo, Japan, in 1946. Grande Holdings in Hong Kong purchased the Akai brand, and now distributes various electronic products such as LED TV, washing machines, clothes dryers, air conditioners and smart phones, through collaborations with other electronics companies bearing relevant expertise. inMusic Brands in the United States took over Akai"s brand, starting the ‘Akai Professional’ label, that distributes high-end audio electronics products.

The company"s business eventually became troubled and it left the audio industry in 1991. At its peak in the late 1990s, Akai Holdings employed 100,000 workers and had annual sales of HK$40 billion (US$5.2 billion). The company filed for insolvency in November 2000, owing creditors US$1.1B.Grande Holdings, a company founded by Akai"s chairman James Ting. The liquidators claimed that Ting had stolen over US$800m from the company with the assistance of accountants Ernst & Young who had tampered with audit documents going back to 1994.

Akai"s products included reel-to-reel audiotape recorders (such as the GX series), tuners (top level AT, mid level TR and TT series), audio cassette decks (top level GX and TFL, mid level TC, HX and CS series), amplifiers (AM and TA series), microphones, receivers, turntables, video recorders and loudspeakers.

Many Akai products were sold under the name Roberts in the USA&D in Japan (from 1987 after a partnership with Mitsubishi Electric), Tensai and Transonic Strato in Western EuropeTandberg"s cross-field recording technologies (using an extra tape head) to enhance high frequency recording and switched to the increasingly reliable Glass and crystal (X"tal) (GX) ferrite heads a few years later

Akai manufactured and badged most of its imported hi-fi products with the Tensai brand (named after the Swiss audio and electronics distributor Tensai International

Other early products included the Akai AX80 8-voice analog synthesizer in 1984,AX60 and AX73 6-voice analog synthesizers ca.1986.Roland Juno series, but used voltage controlled analog oscillators (VCO) as a sound source as opposed to Roland"s more common digitally controlled analog oscillators (DCO), and also allowed the performer to "split" the keyboard (using different timbres for different ranges of keys). The AX-60 also had the ability to interface with Akai"s early samplers through a serial cable, using 12-bit samples as an additional oscillator.

The 16-bit Akai S1000 series followed in 1988, adding the option to read CD-ROMs and write to hard disks via SCSI. This range was superseded by the S3000 series in 1993, with optional built-in CD-ROM drive, followed by the S5000 and S6000. Additional releases of note were the Z4 and Z8 24-bit 96 kHz samplers.

Akai also produced several Digital MIDI sequencers and digital synthesizers such as the MPC range, a line of integrated drum machines, MIDI sequencers, samplers and direct-to-disk recorders.

In December 1999, one year before the application of Civil Rehabilitation Act to Akai Electric Company Ltd., the brand of its musical instrument division, Akai Professional was acquired by a company of the United States. The new company was dubbed "Akai Professional Musical Instrument Corporation".AKAI professional M.I.) was established in the same year, however it was bankrupted in 2005.

In 2004, following a US distribution deal, the Akai Professional Musical Instrument division was acquired by Jack O"Donnell, owner of Numark Industries and Alesis. In 2012, inMusic Brands was formed as a parent company for O"Donnell"s companies, including Akai Professional.

In early 2003, Grande Holdings began undergoing a re-exposure of Akai"s brands by marketing various audio visual products manufactured by Samsung. In the same year, Grande began to distribute Akai home appliances such as air conditioners, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators. In 2010s, it began to distribute Akai smart phones collaborated with some Chinese smart phone manufacturers (Gionee, etc.), in India and some other countries.

Akai Professional is not affiliated with Akai (a consumer audio and television brand). Akai Professional changed ownership in 2004 and is an inMusic Brands company, based in Rhode Island, United States.

Although reliable sources are not yet found, according to the several sources (kotobank.jp, ja:Akai Professional), Masukichi Akai established Akai Press Industry in 1923, then his son, Saburo Akai established Akai Electric Company Ltd. in 1946, and Masukichi served as the president of both.

Duce, John; Tan, Andrea (2009-10-05). "Akai Liquidator to Receive Payment in Settlement With Grande". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.

"Akai Professional / Akai Digital – Company History". AKAI professional M.I. Corp. c. 1999. Archived from the original on 2013-05-03. Akai Professional entered the electronic musical instrument world in 1984 with one purpose – to give artists the tools they need to express and explore new musical ideas.”, “In 1999, Akai Professional Musical Instruments Corporation (APMI) was formed.

アカイプロフェッショナルエムアイが破産手続き開始 [Akai Professional M.I. entered bankrupt proceedings.]. the original on 2006-01-12. 民間信用調査会社の帝国データバンク横浜支店によると、音響機器製造のアカイプロフェッショナルエムアイ（横浜市都筑区北山田、駿河道生社長、従業員十七人）は七日までに、東京地裁から破産手続き開始決定を受けた。...　同社は一九九九年十二月、赤井電機（東京都）の電子楽器部門のブランドを買収した米国系企業が、製造・販売目的で設立した。

[Abstract: according to the private credit research company, Teikoku Databank Yokohama branch, by the 7th (December 2005), Akai Professional M.I. received a bankruptcy proceedings decision by the Tokyo District Court. ... Akai Professional M.I. was established in December 1999 to focus on the manufacture and sale of electronic musical instruments, by a company of the United States who acquired the brand(s) of musical instrument division of Akai Electric Company Ltd.]

"Akai Professional AX73 / VX90 / AX60". Archive Products. AKAI Professional M.I. Corp. 1999–2005. Archived from the original on 2013-07-28. (archived on HollowSun.com).