without disrespect ( hehe ) but most of them hiphop "producer" up there using god knows what cliché tools known to hiphop have very little clue whatsoever when talking in real production terms. Reason this, FL that...MPC's ...I mean, my god, half of them peeps own one so they can send it to forat for a custom paint job...like 1 outta 10 established artist actually knows what you can do with such a machine. Common...Eminem on Reason I understand although he a noob but still being Dre's protegé, the beats sound Reason and they sound like 1 years experience...shit he aint ready for logic...50ct ? kiddin right, he wack but got experience on rapping I mean, Im picturing a retard in studio looking at all the cool flickering lights, dazzled by all the knobs...G-Unit ??? wtf, how does it take a whole crew to make beats on just a triton and a motif and still everything sounds like a preset having the 808 kit as the most used instrument aside from the cheesy 1 bar synthlead that only mr simpleton could've played in, shit I don't even think he could play with more than 1 finger at a time considering the result...
I can go on, shit's overrated...their mpc's gotta match their style of the rims on their suv...they'll go dizzy on the real stuff.
Manual schmanual...It's thick but if you have experience you don't really need it, it's all logical...