By Meezy
Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:11 pm
Hello 
My band at the moment consists of a DJ, Bass, Trumpet, Percussion and Vocals. The DJ plays stripped back versions of tracks that I have produced in Logic Pro and we all fill in the missing parts live.
Our DJ is leaving us soon and instead of replacing him I would like to be triggering bits on the fly so that we can jam parts out or end them early if we want to. I have a G4 ibook with an mbox 2 running Logic, Aleton Live and Guru as well as plenty of other stuff. I also have a Roland Handsonic and a Zendrum.
My plan is to either buy an MPC 1000 and chop up my tracks into 8 or 16 bar loops or buy an Akai MPD24 midi conroller and use it to trigger Guru or Live.
I like the idea of a stand alone Akai MPC1000 so that I don't need to mess around with my laptop, mbox, controller and software as well as my congas, and other percussion on stage. I was thinking, however, that since I already have all this equipment would the Akai MPC be a waist of money? I could do the same job with the MPD24 controlling GURU i think?
What do you guys think would be my best option?
Thanks,
Meezy
My band at the moment consists of a DJ, Bass, Trumpet, Percussion and Vocals. The DJ plays stripped back versions of tracks that I have produced in Logic Pro and we all fill in the missing parts live.
Our DJ is leaving us soon and instead of replacing him I would like to be triggering bits on the fly so that we can jam parts out or end them early if we want to. I have a G4 ibook with an mbox 2 running Logic, Aleton Live and Guru as well as plenty of other stuff. I also have a Roland Handsonic and a Zendrum.
My plan is to either buy an MPC 1000 and chop up my tracks into 8 or 16 bar loops or buy an Akai MPD24 midi conroller and use it to trigger Guru or Live.
I like the idea of a stand alone Akai MPC1000 so that I don't need to mess around with my laptop, mbox, controller and software as well as my congas, and other percussion on stage. I was thinking, however, that since I already have all this equipment would the Akai MPC be a waist of money? I could do the same job with the MPD24 controlling GURU i think?
What do you guys think would be my best option?
Thanks,
Meezy