I was just looking through American Musical Supplies recent mail catalogue and found this…
MPC Live 2 XL…?
Close up
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Yep, apparently you’re not hardcore dawless enough with an MPC. 
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I think it’s just the model name for the retro edition
It is daft, they all have strengths and weaknesses.
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I own/owed a lot of samplers. They are all awesome in their own right!
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Yes, same here. I try to keep below 5 at a time though now, but even that is difficult.
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I’d agree. It’s more of a “let’s play this loop and jam with it a bit to figure out how to build the next part of the song” kind of live device. It offers easy track and pad mutes, XYFX on the master and programs, and the ability to jam with the arp and pads on top of the loop.
But it lacks things like step sequencer step playback like the MC-101, or the awesome ctrl+all effects of the Elektron, or the probability/generative features.
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Ha! I’m at 4 right now. I really want to slim down but that would mean making a choice between OT and MPC so that’s not happening.
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Yeah the OT and MPC do compliment eachother well, same sample rate and easy interchanging of samples.
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$100 more for the color? That would be lame
Edit: just checked their site and retro is same price.
Maybe it’s a typo or maybe it’s a leak… time will tell
I’m actually trying to figure out a way around that, cause so far I found the MPC lovely to control my DN (double sequencer ftw), those two rocks for live-evolving séquences/bass/lead/chords. But now to makes the drums evolving… I’ve never took a dive into q link but I guess you couldnt link them to more than a parameter ? Otherwise the idea of an evolving kit via velocity modulation sounds good to me but I’m not sure if it’s possible to modulate it live 
Probably because, on top of the legacy functions, it nows do “random” stuff like handling pseudo-vst, generative midi, selling you sample from an online service, have a computer core on which you can boot another OS, have a x/y pad… I dont think it’s that weird to expect it to do much more than being a midi center / sampler as it always been.
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yeah agree with others it’s probably just a colour scheme thing in reference to the 2000XL
Sampler list:
MPC Live 2
MPC 1000
MPC 2500 (for sale)
SP303
SP404mk2
Octatrack
Rytm Mk1
Crikey that’s a lot 
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I only have:
MPC Live II
Digitakt
V-Synth
OP-Z
M3
And my XV-5080 works as a sampleplayer for vintage Akai/Roland sample-formats if needed.
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In case you weren’t aware, a quick squizzy at the manual says the m3 can load some akai formats as well.
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No Octatrack?
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Not anymore. Sold mine over a year ago. If there was an affordable mk2 available in the early 2023 after NGNY, I might be tempted.
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This is 99.9% my experience and how I see it too. I’m a musician first and foremost, so playing and using my ears rather than programming is my default, and it’s easy to forget not everyone works like this.
Also similar with the Digitone, Analog Four and Rytm for me… I know it’s possible to make full tracks on any of them, but, to me, they represent instruments/parts in a bigger production, which I’m more than happy with.
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Indeed, but that’s not the same statement.