what was ur 1st piece of equipment?

[bigdmakintrax]

alesis HR-16

 

[Ash Holmz]

Originally posted by Guevara
i STiLL DoNT HAVE ANYTHiNG...............UNLESS U CoUNT THE FRUiTY LoOPS i DOWNLoADED oFF oF ***** FoR FREE.THAT GoT ME STARTED.

yup thats me not a piece of hardware ... i manged to score a old yamaha psr 530 for free from my neighbor before she left though.... i started out on good ol loopy fruity though ... i had the thing for like 4 months before i even knew you could put your own sounds in it ...lol... i was jus makin beats with the presets..lol

 

[J.VAZQUEZ]

My first piece was the SP12 ( no disc set) with a "LUXSOUND" sampler
then roland W30

 

[soundboy2]

The lunch room table and a pencil, then 8 years later I got a MPC2kxl.
I got it and relized it didn't have sounds in it. I was pissed and then I explored sampling and been on the crack ever since.

 

[The Bastard]

i had a alesis sr-16 drum then i brough it back cuz my shit sounded like quiet riot, ii got the boss dr 202 and im mad suprised to see that a lot of people had that i thoughti was the only herb in the world to have that piece i did aright with it it just sounded really janky u know,an i feel u about makin the beats for free its all about spreadin the word about youtr music at first

 

[dj ShorTbuS]

Originally posted by nas2000xl
i think it was a roland 505 or 5-0 something. and a yamaha

yo nas2000xl...

how did you like the MC-505? it seemed to me to be a lot more dance oriented than hip hop. it does have some pretty decent basses on it but i thought that was it. all the instruments sounded too fake to me. except the sitar and some of the piano type sounds.

 

[DJ Combz]

Ya the 505 is really geared toward dance but you can get some cool different sounds off of it if you play around with the filters, sometimes I like to mix my red and blue jello too ... so it turns purle yipy!

 

[MadScientist]

Boss Dr. 550 Drum Machine

 

[Loose Cannon]

Technics SLD20 turntable, PS545PRO Mixer, and a tape deck.

 

[faint]

AKAI S900 WHICH I STILL HAVE AND LOVE

 

[MIKELABZ]

man i started on an old E-1 thatr shyt had about 7 GB and i was using Goldwave, FL2, and ACID ..... no keyboard, no mpc....

today is a different story hardware: x-box, toshiba laptop, e machine t2240, yamaha keyboard PSR520, and a shyt load of speakers and headphones... still no mpc tho

L-Rock

 

[hookiefree]

Originally posted by JPeg
I got the boss dr202 learned to program drums and bass on that got kinda good at the machine but the sounds were to hissy.

I read somewhere in an interview with pete rock where he was asked if u were teaching someone to produce what equipment would u start em out on to learn the ropes? and he replied something like a dr202.

lol, now i know im stepped in the right direction

Me too. I got the sampler to go with it soon after. I did some of my most creative work on that machine.

 

[JPeg]

big up the dr-202 that unit teaches production to the masses the old school way.

im finding the lessons learned on that machine r comming back to me real strong and the beats r elevating all the time.

now i use the sp505 and i aint lookin at gettin no mpc from the time madlib is rockin the 303, im staying with my machine till i get to a sick level of beats

 

[beatbanga2]

my first was a fostex 4 track recorder a korg dsm1 sampler that i had to use a footswitch with cause i didnt know bout midi or seq and my aunts record collection

 

[fastlance]

A yucky clear blue velocity midi controler

 

[Medicine Man]

I started on a casio keyboard and a 4-track. I played the keys live to a pre-done beat on the keyboard and recorded it to the 4-track. Then I would let my friends rap on the open track. It sounded like crap but was the most fun I've ever had making music!

 

[big slick]

i just got my mpc 1000 last week.
it's hot.