Oberheim MC-2000

Editing new patches is easy. And once you master the patch creations it is a great add on to your set. Especially live its my life saver. Since I have 5 synths on stage I can switch presets on all 4 synths by just switching to the next song in the setlist in my MC 2000.

4 midi outs,2 midi ins, 2 midi thru's, some nice sounds in the expansion board. Dynamic curves for the sensitivity. Great Keyboard action.
I wouldnt sell it for the world. One thing. Its a bit heavy and flightcased even more so.
And being on tour without the luxury of roadies this gave some complaints of other band members ;).

Almost forgot one of the features. I couldnt get a certain midi command to be send to my Korg Triton. This was fixed quickly you can record midi commands, store them and send them back to any keyboard in a later stage. A real usefull add on.

For the female fronted metal band im in I mostly use the choir from the expansion board and sometimes the strings. The rest of the sounds are nice but just not for the style of music that I use it for. The piano sounds are pretty decent but with another stage piano at hand those are not really needed.

It's decent. Everything is made to survive being on the road.
Never failed me not on stage not in our studio.

Never dealt with them

If I lost it I would buy a new one.
Its such a great tool. The best thing is that I use it to create presets with using sounds of 3 or even 4 synths at the same time. Being able to create a wall of sound and using the best sounds of all my other gear and combining them into 1 preset.
One example, I use a nice pad sound from my trinity and add a really raw lead/bass sound from my analog synth. And simply play them together using the MC2000.

Wouldnt trade it for the world!

Editing patches is straightforward. Once you've mastered the menus, I found it really easy to create new patches, often using existings ones as a template.
Manual is OK, but once you've got to grips with the instrument, you won't refer to it again.

I bought the MC2000 EX version, so it's already expanded, using the Viscount (mint choc' biscuit!?) OP-1 board, providing good piano samples, as well as others including a great Oberheim horn pad. There are other sound banks available (not described in the manual - Have a dig and you'rr find them!!) 2 midi in's, 2 midi thru's and 4 midi out's. 3 assignable wheels, 4 assignable sliders. Versatile stuff!

Although there are a limited number of sounds available from the onboard expansion, it really does work well as a stage piano. Main piano samples are bright and work well in a live environment. Keyboard action is actually very good, and the available dynamic response curves make the instrument very playable.

Does the job - Solid.

I believe it's only available in the UK through Turnkey. I've had no problems so far.

As a master keyboard it's great. Much lighter (kg) than my old KX-88, and the expansion make this a serious stage piano. For the money, I don't think there's anything else available to touch it. OK, spend an extra #500, and you can get an excellent stage piano from Roland or Yamaha, but you won't have the flexability that this keyboard provides as a master board in your studio. Try it !

Very easy of use and good functionality

The keyboard quality is good but the response of single key are different...I have try 3 mc2000 and all of 3 have the same problem: if the response of C4 is 100 midi value, the C#4 at the same velocity play 120 midi value! This isn't acceptable!!!

No sounds on board without expansion....but the expansion have poor poor sounds.

Good customer support but they was not able to resolve keyboard sensitivity problems...sorry, I have sold mc2000.
Now I use a Kurzweil PC88.