I bought an used mpc one for around 500€. I really like it, I use it all the time now. It’s just awesome for sample based things.
The integrated effects are great. It’s so easy to slice beats, put samples on pads, completely change them, resample and repeat… the piano roll and touchscreen is really not that bad. The lack of arranger view forces you to be more “auditive” about your sounds and stop too much focusing on a screen.
The MPC makes it so easy to tweak sounds by using knobs and to focus on creating. The integrated synths are good. The new 2.10 update brought new cool synths to use. Again resampling is the key here…
This tune has been made on the mpc one (my first tune). I imported the stems afterwards in bitwig and did some mixing.
That’s another cool thing. integrated effects like compressor with sidechain, eq, etc are all there. but you don’t get advanced eq with integrated spectrum analyzers. I think that’s good because you can focus on the sound and take care about engineering stuff later on the computer once the track is done.