By astral_Signal
Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:46 am
I've been producing my own music for roughly 10+ years. I started out using Propellerhead's Reason + ReCycle. The workflow involved was long and tedious, I would record samples in Pro Tools, import them into ReCycle to chop, load these chopped samples in Reason for sequencing, then when a track was finished I would re-wire Reason into Pro Tools for printing and finally mix-down.
Eventually I picked up an MPC 1000 and this completely changed this workflow for the better. I could do everything in the MPC, (record, chop, sequence) and it was the centerpiece of the studio. Overtime certain things started to annoy me:
- the OS (JJ OS1) was pretty old school albeit better than the official Akai OS
- the internal memory (maxed out out 128MB) is incredibly small
- the overall build quality of the unit is not great : buttons break or become unresponsive, pads become unresponsive
- the record metering window lacks vital numerical information, it's literally a graphical bar that represents input level
- 16bit/44.1kHz
So recently, I had been considering what life would be like without the MPC and relying entirely on my DAW (Pro Tools 12) for complete production (recording, chopping, sequencing, mixing). What tools could I use in Pro Tools that would allow me to achieve the same basics in workflow similar to an MPC? I use Beat Detective occasionally in Pro Tools, would this be useful for chopping? I'd also need a transient shaper as envelope editing is a crucial tool for me.
What do you guys think? Is it a wrong move, or is it a practical move?
Thanks.
Eventually I picked up an MPC 1000 and this completely changed this workflow for the better. I could do everything in the MPC, (record, chop, sequence) and it was the centerpiece of the studio. Overtime certain things started to annoy me:
- the OS (JJ OS1) was pretty old school albeit better than the official Akai OS
- the internal memory (maxed out out 128MB) is incredibly small
- the overall build quality of the unit is not great : buttons break or become unresponsive, pads become unresponsive
- the record metering window lacks vital numerical information, it's literally a graphical bar that represents input level
- 16bit/44.1kHz
So recently, I had been considering what life would be like without the MPC and relying entirely on my DAW (Pro Tools 12) for complete production (recording, chopping, sequencing, mixing). What tools could I use in Pro Tools that would allow me to achieve the same basics in workflow similar to an MPC? I use Beat Detective occasionally in Pro Tools, would this be useful for chopping? I'd also need a transient shaper as envelope editing is a crucial tool for me.
What do you guys think? Is it a wrong move, or is it a practical move?
Thanks.