....more than the tool itself.

If you don't know what you're trying to do, MPC versus SP won't make any difference. You'd be wasting dough.

I want an SP1200 my damn self, because of those filters that guys like Betminerz used to abuse. I'm loving those high-buck keyboards like Fantoms and Tritons too, as well as certain computer programs. At the end of the day though, it's not the machine, it's the guy using it. I know a cat doing him on a cheap toy Yamaha and Pro Tools. Thing is, son knows his sound, and knows how to play.

Just keep at it with the MP. I've picked up on tricks on my own and from folks that have caused me to discover new angles of beats I've made.

Have you really made that many tracks on it?