MPC One : More than what I need but could be better

I only needed a simple sampler and maybe a sequencer. The MPC 1000 would have been a good choice, but it is very old by now and prices are almost the same as an MPC One anyway.

I wanted the MPC One to be my main device to send and receive MIDI data from my computer. In other words, I wanted it to be the first device out from my computer. MIDI Thru seems to not work out of the box. A workaround that I did was to create several MIDI tracks with the properly assigned MIDI channels and ports to let my other devices receive MIDI data from my computer. I saved this as a template, but this is too much fiddling for such a basic feature on almost every other MIDI device. Then I made the mistake of deleting factory projects. This disabled the start up dialog completely. There was no warning or message of any kind announcing the effects of doing so. I think this is a UI flaw. AKAI support has not responded to any of my inquiries. This means I can't open my MIDI template anymore. I now switched this with an Arturia keyboard as my MIDI out from my computer, making the MPC One strictly only a sampler.