If you do get it, I highly recommend the MPC Bible which is well worth the money. Sampling is very quick and easy, you can assign loops to Pads, or create multi sampled instruments, or autochop samples and create a chopped instrument, or Autosample external Midi synths with auto cross fade looping, plus you get 8 Audio tracks, there’s chord mode for the pads, step sequencer, piano roll, event editor, dozens of quality Effects that can be added at pad level, program level and master, 4 effect send/returns, an arpeggiator, bounce to Pad, mixdown to Master, mixdown to stems. The hardware quality is superb and so is the sound quality, you can record at 24-bit and internally it works at 32-bit allowing around 1GB/ 1 Hour recording time per project. You can connnect up to 32 USB devices such as synths, laptops and class compliant Midi interfaces which makes it a very powerful studio centrepiece. It has a few quirks and bugs but no show stoppers. It is simply amazing in what it can do and is continually being developed.

Akai professional mpc x controller