By cherchepoutipoupou
Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:29 am
Hello everybody!
I've been into music production for only about 2 years now, and I haven't had a touch on so many different piece of gear yet.
Until now, I've been mostly using my computer to make music, and I'm getting bored with it for a couple different reasons. I love working in Ableton, but for creation I'm looking for a workflow that does not use mouses, and in which looking at the screen is mostly optional.
For now, I have an APC40, pad controller, keys controller. Pretty much everything is under control here - sequencing, controlling instruments, effects, mixing. As I make an extensive use of samples in my stuff, sampling is pretty important and I always end up chopping them with my eyes rather then ears. Not sure I like that idea. And to me, the mouse & eyes moment is really a momentum breaker. I'd like to make a beat just like a guitar player jams.
I tried a little SP404 in all that, that was pretty neat. I mean, I would sample anything in the SP which is controlled by my pads, feeding in Ableton, and I can jam with my loops right away with my APC40. My computer screen can be total black while all that. But I don't like the SP too much since I'd like to have pads that shut the previous pad when triggered, with velocity sensitivity, transposition for speed change.
Now I've never touched an MPC, so I am curious on what everybody have been so crazy about the past 30 years. What makes it so cool? I read a lot about different MPCs, I know they have pretty different features, but still, what makes an MPC an MPC and not just a sampler. I heard sampling capabilities were a bit basic but the sequencer was great. Do you guys relate to that? What does that mean, what are those sampling capabilities? Would I be better off with some kind of Akai S3000 or anything of that serie? I'm not sure about those, are they only about taking a sample on all keys or they can do a similar thing as a MPC when they're controlled with external pads? Choking pads, transpo.
If I were to take an MPC , I'd probably use the sequencer as well, whereas with a S3000 I'll be happy with Albeton as sequencer.
I also heard the S3000 was very powerful for creative sampling. Anyone knows what it does have the MPCs don't?
Kinda long question, sorry. I don't know where to start in all that.
Hopefully some people will be able to highlight a little region of that!
Cheers!
I've been into music production for only about 2 years now, and I haven't had a touch on so many different piece of gear yet.
Until now, I've been mostly using my computer to make music, and I'm getting bored with it for a couple different reasons. I love working in Ableton, but for creation I'm looking for a workflow that does not use mouses, and in which looking at the screen is mostly optional.
For now, I have an APC40, pad controller, keys controller. Pretty much everything is under control here - sequencing, controlling instruments, effects, mixing. As I make an extensive use of samples in my stuff, sampling is pretty important and I always end up chopping them with my eyes rather then ears. Not sure I like that idea. And to me, the mouse & eyes moment is really a momentum breaker. I'd like to make a beat just like a guitar player jams.
I tried a little SP404 in all that, that was pretty neat. I mean, I would sample anything in the SP which is controlled by my pads, feeding in Ableton, and I can jam with my loops right away with my APC40. My computer screen can be total black while all that. But I don't like the SP too much since I'd like to have pads that shut the previous pad when triggered, with velocity sensitivity, transposition for speed change.
Now I've never touched an MPC, so I am curious on what everybody have been so crazy about the past 30 years. What makes it so cool? I read a lot about different MPCs, I know they have pretty different features, but still, what makes an MPC an MPC and not just a sampler. I heard sampling capabilities were a bit basic but the sequencer was great. Do you guys relate to that? What does that mean, what are those sampling capabilities? Would I be better off with some kind of Akai S3000 or anything of that serie? I'm not sure about those, are they only about taking a sample on all keys or they can do a similar thing as a MPC when they're controlled with external pads? Choking pads, transpo.
If I were to take an MPC , I'd probably use the sequencer as well, whereas with a S3000 I'll be happy with Albeton as sequencer.
I also heard the S3000 was very powerful for creative sampling. Anyone knows what it does have the MPCs don't?
Kinda long question, sorry. I don't know where to start in all that.
Hopefully some people will be able to highlight a little region of that!
Cheers!