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By jkonthetrack Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:05 am
What's going on everyone? Never owned or even seen an mpc in person but it's a machine I've always wanted to try out. I just really don't know much about it. Of course I will be doing my research and looking up as many youtube and other videos as I can but I just had one question.

With the MPC Touch, is that basically the only thing I would be using to create beats with? I mainly use fl studio with omnisphere and kontakt. I'm wondering if the mpc is basically a daw of it's own and used for chopping up samples that I could load into it. I seen some videos that you can load up the mpc software into fl studio but I guess what I want to know is if you would just use the mpc solely?

Hopefully I'm making sense but I'm really interested in getting this and getting into sampling. Thanks in advance.
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By Living Bate Mon Oct 23, 2017 7:31 am
jkonthetrack wrote:would just use the mpc solely?


obviously with the Touch you will need a computer to run the software.....and if you want to record vocals or live instrumentation you will need a separate DAW......but other than that you can do it all in the MPC
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By BostonGreen Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:31 am
Living Bate wrote:and if you want to record vocals or live instrumentation you will need a separate DAW......but other than that you can do it all in the MPC


He can record instruments and vocals straight into the touch, although I have found that the recording levels are way too low, so I use a USB soundcard instead of the built in one
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By BostonGreen Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:46 am
jkonthetrack wrote:Thanks for the info from both of you. I was watching a bunch of videos of how the touch functions and what not. I'll be connecting it through my audient sound card.


Can get em cheap now the x and live are out ....
By Schmidi Sun Dec 31, 2017 7:16 pm
You'd want a mic preamp connected to your mic, then run that into the Touch. Basically, any mixer with XLR in will work, or you can spend a ton more for better sounds with a discrete preamplifier.