[rhodesp04]

I've used it (including this past weekend at GC in LA where I put on a lil' show for some of the workers lol).

IMO there's nothing wrong with it, I just think it's not worth the money. I think it lists at like $2k...

I tell you what I did, although it may not help many people because they may not live in a city with a competent Akai Tech, I bought a broken 4000 for relatively cheap off of Ebay, got it fixed by Bruce Forat (forat.com) then had extra money for other things (I had roughly a 2k budget at the time)