I found a MPC 2500 at a pawn shop, and I'm currently doing it on layaway.

I'll be making a payment and I'm still owe $400.

The sad news is, I probably won't even be getting it home until October at the soonest.

(I'm so behind in bills, and trying to keep other equipment without selling anything). That being said, I'm very curious how I can use my EMX and ER-1 mk2 with this thing. Sometimes your imagination has the ideas before you've got the tools in front of you.
I think it'd be fun to sample the er-1 and try to sample the kick to the point where you get booming notes, then have the mpc modulate/transpose them so you can do some basslines that would be tricky to impossible for the ER-1 to do by itself. I'd love to also have access to the synths from the EMX from the pads of the mpc, and if it can do that, then that'd be wicked fun.
Until then, just trying to keep up with the bills, and the slow progress to paying the MPC 25k off.