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I'm new to this, I don't really want it for live performances, just something simple to start with to make remixes.
Hi mate, I'm a hardware man myself and I could wax poetic about Atari's, MPC's and samplers till you die of boredom - but if you're just looking for something to make a remix or two, you are really better of with something like Ableton LIVE. Many people just get an MPC because that's the fashionable thing to do, but with these new Numark ones that you connect up to your computer why not just use a midi controller? Same thing really.
Some people like the old MPC's because you're not constantly looking at the screen when you're making music - so you actually listen to what you're making rather than seeing what you're making - that and the midi timing. Others prefer the sound that the old samplers had, that no amount of bitcrusher/tape saturation/distortion plugins will ever help you achieve (although some will try to tell you otherwise). Any other reason is just fashion. A trawl of any MPC board, will be filled with posts dissecting J Dilla's every move - including the fact that he used an MPC - thereby their purchase of an MPC500 is fully justified to be true to hip hop. Something like that..
