Elektron Musical Instruments

>I didn't know you switched to Ableton Live! Recently I heard the 'Acid
 >Junkies' are testing a similar approach to take on stage.

Interface, a Dutch electronic audio/music magazine (www.interface.nl),
reviewed Live last month. The review was done by Stefan Robbers,
coincidently one of the Acid Junkies :)

 >And personally, I am very interested in giving it a go.

Try the demo, it gives you a good idea of the program. Once I played with
the demo a bit, I couldn't wait to order it (online, direct from Ableton's
website, arrived within a week).

I run it on OSX, on which Live tends to be very stable, albeit somewhat
buggy at times (I've had it crash on certain .WAV files for no apparent
reason).

 >Is the transition from an MPC2000XL easy.. or is it pretty much a 'Start
 >form scratch' thing.

I'm not an MPC2000 man myself, but using Live is eerily easy to learn :)

                                                                    robert