SyN said:yo, it's totally true... it can do soooo muchmore than the mpc minus the sampling... and the RS7000 takes care of that... yamaha is the shit... i really want to find someone with an RS7000 and work out some sort of deal to pick it up... the thing that keeps the MPC afloat is that it is the cool thing to use... society has everyonethinking that it is the only way to make a beat... nice research you got there on the RM1X though... interesting...