MPC One : Superb value for money, some bugs.

Bought this as the center of a small home studio.

Hardware feels good. Software has more bugs than other products i have used. Midi learn mode crashes the MPC often. Some other UI bugs used to be there but were fixed by Akai.

Other annoyances are no free running lfos on any built-in synth and a 5 minute hard limit on audio track recording. I work around this by disabling and enabling again recording in a small moment of silence on the source. Just press Rec twice.

The built-in synths and effects are pretty good. The included drum synth can easily replace a drum machine.

CPU power is plenty to run 4+ synth tracks and dozens of effects. Never used more than 30%.

USB midi hosting in it is solid. It's fun to connect Elektron boxes to it with a simple usb cable. You can hook up many synths at once this way.

Overall, i think it's one of the best boxes but i took a star off of Quality because of bugs and Akai support that almost never reply to my bug reports.

A bit more polish on the software side would be great.

It's also easy, quick and fun to use.