i know producer X swears by his, he had it ever since it came out...I had 3 mpc's and 2 emu boxes and its hard to convince me....but I also had the Fantom S (still have it after getting rid of it) before they dropped the mv8000, besides the number of tracks the sequencer is almost identical to that 4 year old piece as far as functionality and yes the timing and quantize can kinda get tricky.....my man just copped it and he let me work out on it about 2 or 3 days total and its a nice piece to own and like someone said it chromatically spreads out your samples and yeah the lcd takes you to another level sorta like a Fruity loops looking interface....I'd say if you looking for the all in one piece and easy to transport its a good deal, also if you hit up a real showroom like the guitar center be a hard bargainer and maybe even have an old piece to trade for it, its comparitively a very expensive box....unless you going for the new 4000