That's the exact reason that I would want to get an MPC. Chopping in Cubase is boring to me so I definitely feel like I'm losing that spark at times. I haven't really been that happy with my setup for the last ten years so I'm definitely going to look into the MPC and other options and maybe pick something up this summer.
I'm pretty sure the MPC is what I want though, after hearing about it and seeing videos about it for so many years. The sampler that I started on (Roland JS-30) had no sequencer so I had to trigger everything live, so I couldn't really sample anything with a beat in it because I couldn't keep a pattern going for 5 minutes without messing up. We'll see I guess.