New in stock at Sweetwater Sound: Akai has upped the ante again on the drum sampling workstation market. The MPC2000XL is based on the long lineage of popular MPC machines but adds a Next Sequence key, 4 bank keys, Track Mute key, hinged LCD, multi-program playback, device naming, MIDI soft thru, multi-track recording, time stretch, resampling, simultaneous playback of a second sequence, and folder file management. We have them in stock in both the plus and studio version. Retail prices are $2650 and $2250 respectively.
Our purchasing manager wants you to know that we’re having, and these are his words, an “insane in the membrane” sale on all Parker guitars in stock. Now, the rest of us aren’t sure what insane in the membrane means, but we do know these are fabulous guitars and we have them at some great prices. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for details.
A tube synthesizer? Yes, it’s true. The retro synth of retro synths, and sporting a very cool name too. The Phattytron from Metasonix is a monophonic synth with no transistors in the signal path.