This required the timing to be super tight in the MPC 3000. So he wanted it to be simple and be able to record exactly what you threw at it. A drum machine had to have great groove to it. Roger Linn’s vision for what a drum machine could be revolved around grooves. Some prefer the 60, others prefer the 3000.
The MPC 60 only has a single mono sampling input, while the MPC 3000 has dual stereo inputs.The MPC 3000 has 2 MB of stock memory, expandable up to 32 MB.
MPC 60 has 750KB of stock memory, expandable to 1.5 MB.MPC 60: 12 bit audio – MPC 3000: 16 bit audio.
In 1994 came the release of the MPC 3000, the celebrated upgrade from the MPC 60 line. In 1988 they would release the Akai MPC 60 and later followed by the updated MPC 60 MKII. The collaboration was a good fit because Akai needed a creative designer and Roger Linn wasn’t a fan of the manufacturing aspects of the business.
Eventually Linn Electronics went out of business and the next chapter would be Roger Linn and Akai Professional linking up to create new products. In 1980 Roger Linn designed and released the worlds first drum machine that uses samples called the LM-1, under his own company Linn Moffett Electronics with then partner Alex Moffett.