Why Does Everyone Swear By Mpc's?

[incogneeto]

Y Does Everyone Swear By Mpc's????????????????

Y DOES EVERYONE SWEAT THE MPC'S???????....I GOT MY MPC 2000XL ABOUT 8 MONTHS AGO.....YEAH I MADE SOME HOT TRACKS AND BEATS WITH IT, BUT FOR REAL.....ISN'T A COMPLETE WORKSTATION LIKE THE MOTIF OR FANTOM, OR ANY OTHER WORKSTATION MORE PRACTICAL THEN THE MPC HOOKED UP TP OTHER SOUND MODULES.........YOU HAVE TO LOAD EVERY SOUND ONTO MPC'S....WHERE AS WITH THE WORKSTATIONS THE SOUNDS R ALREADY THERE....ALSO SAMPLING....MPC HAS AN OLD CRAPPY SAMPLER, BUT STILL EVERYONE LOVES THESE THINGS.......I'M NOT KNOCKIN THE MPC, CAUS EYOU CAN DO SOME SICK S**T WIT IT, BUT THERE IS DEF SOME OTHER EQUIPMENT OUT THERE THAT CAN DO A WHOLE LOT MORE IN A COMPACT ENVIORNMENT...HOLLA..........1.....INCOG

 

[young_keyz]

The mpc just works dog. As hardware tries its best to keep up with software things start to become a thousand buttons being push just to do a simple task. Nothing is simple any more....Music is about what in side of you being able to come out as fast as you can produce it and i think the mpc just allows you to do the job....plus as you can see there is a lot of people who own one so the help you can get when needed is always gona be there.....another thing is i buy and sale keyboards a few times and with my mpc i have root of track that was being used so if all worse i can re assign the sounds that may have been use to the best they was used with another board. The mpc is just apart of the culture just like turn tables n records.

 

[bigdmakintrax]

Originally posted by young_keyz
The mpc is just apart of the culture just like turn tables n records.

Now ya talking man, that's the most fucking profound statement I have heard...it's as relevant as....the Stratocaster or Fender to Rock n Roll I think.....there's been many imitations....and don't 4get about the grandaddy...the SP's

 

[ART MPC 4000]

YOU ARE CRAZY

THE AKAI MPC IS A WORKHORSE, YOU HAVE A 2000 WHICH WAS THE WORST MACHINE THEY MADE SO YOU CANT COMPLAIN. IVE USED THEM ALL AND THEIR BETTER THAN ANY OTHER WORKSTATION ON THE MARKET. THE MPC 4000 STUDIO D IS THE BEST MIDI PRODUCTION MACHINE EVER MADE. THE FEATURES OF ANY KORG OR ROLLAND MACHINC COULDNT HOLD A CANDLE TO THE FEATURES INSTALLED IN A MPC. FOR THOSE WHO DONT KNOW, MPC WERE INTIALLY CREATED FOR ORCHESTRAS (WOW). MPC CONTROL STUDIOS THEY ARE THE CENTER AND IF YOU KNOW HOW TO PROPERLY USE YOU MACHINE IT WILL BE WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
FOR ONE, I WOULDNT USE A TRITION TO MAKE A TRACK BECAUSE U CANT FINE TUNE A TRACK. THE TEMPOS GO FROM 90-90 WHILE A MPC GOES FROM 90-90.1-90.2......GET THE IDEA.
ALL OTHER WORKSTATIONS ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO PERFORM THE TASKS OF A MPC I CAN GO ON AND ON BUT IF YOU HAVE A MPC AND KNOW HOW TO FLIP IT YOU KNOW WHERE IM COMING FROM
I WILL GIVE A FOLLOW UP SPEACH AT A LATER DATE.


NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE USING TO MAKE BEATS, YOU SHOULD BE ON IT EVERYDAY TILL YOU KNOW IT LIKE THE BACK OF YOUR HAND

 

[Equality 7-2521]

i use an mpc for 2 reasons.

1: because looking at a computer screen for hours on end fucks with my head and makes me tired

2: because an mpc is as simple as 1+1, is fast as fuck and is easy to master.

 

[Formant024]

Re: YOU ARE CRAZY

Originally posted by ART MPC 4000
FOR THOSE WHO DONT KNOW, MPC WERE INTIALLY CREATED FOR ORCHESTRAS (WOW).

Intentionaly, the mpc was constructed for percussion purposes, hence it's little memory and drumpads.

FOR ONE, I WOULDNT USE A TRITION TO MAKE A TRACK BECAUSE U CANT FINE TUNE A TRACK. THE TEMPOS GO FROM 90-90 WHILE A MPC GOES FROM 90-90.1-90.2......GET THE IDEA.

Please elaborate, cuz most machine I know go @ least 96ppq. That's well enough.


@ Incogneeto,

The way I see it, the mpc holds many purposes but it's best value is the sequencer and the fact that its hardware ( timing is rocksolid ). The sampler isnt something to cheer about, the filter sucks, sliders arent that flexible when talking about assigning them for practical issues ( except recording the mixer ). Also, your best of to record directly onto the input rather than to load samples ( good A/D cv ), but in general any non-budget sampler will kill the 2000 (32mb) engine at instant when talking quality and/or capacity. Not to be a culturebarbarian, but I bought the mpc mainly for techno livesets, since its small(portable) and contains 32 midi chnls and I work with hardware mainly, not a laptop or a pc. In that case it's practical ( and it's a sick combo with the atc ).

Now in the studio the mpc is merely a standalone midi recorder, I have one 2kxl in the editroom and 1 2kxl in the control room. Both in midi thru mode, so I can load a kit into the S750 or esi4000 and start jamming on it, save it to a midi filetype 1 and load that into a matching template in logic. It also works the other way, whatever I create with hardware in logic I can playback and edit in the mpc. This all happens in a minute which makes the mpc a quick and easy utility for drumtracks with a more human groove to it. In the last case I can also create an entire liveset in logic, unplug the midi I/O from pc to mpc, leaving the mpc with the synths and fx for live ( I have all gear racked and ready to go from the control room ). Another nice example is for composing purposes. I can unhook the mpc from the editroom and take it into the studio, hook it up on the clavinova and let it record whatever I tend to layout in a track. Save it to midi-1 file and edit the whole lot in logic later on. The plus is, as mentioned before, I can produce a whole track without looking at a monitor.

Eventualy, the machine is a damn good creation, but, if you bought it because everybody uses one ( jumping on the bandwagon ) I can see why people doubt it's rep. There's a good purpose to it but it all depends on wether your setup is either software or hardware. I you like vst etc and mainly work with platforms such as Reason than I dont see the point of buying a mpc, it's just impractical in a setup unless there a big fat sampler besides the pc and the mpc in your setup. If you have loads of hardware synths and a quality sampler at hand than the mpc is simply unstopable.

In any case, read up @ micheals work. www.midicase.com or www.mpc2000xl.com . Its all you should know about it.

 

[MassProduktionz]

I can sum up your question in one word. "Simplicity!!!"

Its easy to learn and even easier to work with which leaves you more time to be creative. I'm not saying its for everyone but its definitely my weapon of choice!!

 

[incogneeto]

word...i agree with everyone...the mpc is mad easy to use....but i feel that it is only good to lay ur drums down.....i need to learn how to add a keyboard synth to my setup..then i will be str8......i like the sound of the motif...and wanna add that synth over my drums made by the mpc.....but i dont know how to do this.....help...(thats y i want the motif es....cause its all right there)...incog

 

[mArkoFdAbEaTz]

you can just get the motif rack instead of the keyboard and sequence the synth sound on you mpc via midi. you can get a little oxygen 8 to control the rack.

 

[classic]

dude u dont need a motif to get synth sounds

just get a simple MIDI keyboard and hook it up to your MPC. THen u can sample sounds and using the auto fuction u can spread the sounds across they keys.


class.....

 

[Equality 7-2521]

incog: an mpc is not only dope for drums. its fucking dope for chopped samples. its equally good for both.

the only thing the mpc is not amazing at is keys. it has autochromatic assign which gives you all the notes of a keyboad but they are mapped out in a non-user friendly way on the pads.

to fix this simple but a shitty midi keyboard.

 

[SyN]

The best way to make the use out of an MPC is to have it as a Cooperative core sequencer for your studio... The MPC has a pretty solid lock up with a computer DAW type sequencer such as Pro-Tools... Throw an MPC in the mix along with your favorite synths and sound modules... choose a keyboard controller to go into the mpc for keyboard controlled sequence tracks and still have the ability to use the pads to program either internal drum sounds/samples in the mpc and also trigger sounds coming out of the keyboards and modules... If you want to use any filters or plugins... record the sample into Pro-tools and fuck with the plugins on that and have the protools sync to the mpc so that it will play back all of your tracks while you play on the mpc... (i am sure you can probably rig it up with Fruity loops or Reason that most of you seem to use... not sure though... i know you can with reason)... I have done tracks in the past with an MPC where it only acted as the main sequencer and drumpad input... there was no actual sound coming out of the MPC... as a matter of fact... the audio cables werent even hooked up to it... all external sound modules, protools

 

[The Bastard]

''THen u can sample sounds and using the auto fuction u can spread the sounds across they keys.''

damn homie if its that easy tell me how to do it i been tryin to figure this out for a minute

 

[incogneeto]

''THen u can sample sounds and using the auto fuction u can spread the sounds across they keys.''

damn homie if its that easy tell me how to do it i been tryin to figure this out for a minute

USE THE 16 LEVELS KEY!!!!