By gheddi
Thu May 24, 2018 10:59 pm
Hi,
I have the MPC Live and I'm doing tutorials n stuff but Idk if I should keep it. I used almost 99% of the time FL STudio up to this point but I just cant get shit done on the MPC. Getting frustrated very quick. Especially EQing, Mixing, Mastering etc is so hard on the MPC. I mean and then theres guys like Jaisu, Beatminerz or Marco Polo who make illies on that thing! And don't get me started on Dilla and Nujabes, I mean it's obvious that these guys would feel very lost in a DAW, their huntinggrounds are definitly the MPCs!But for me it's the opposite right now. Today I made a beat on the MPC, it sounded complete bad, was only 8 bars, one sequence, but it contained a soul sample, AKAIs annoying stock drums and a baseline that wasn't in tune. So it sounds kinda okay, but not really where I wanna be at. Also I'm in doubt about the MPCs quality as a product itself. There's many complaints about it, many saying that it's buggy or that it sounds bad, or that AKAI itself is a bad company that feeds their customers lies (for example the promised 2GB sampling ram, which turned out to be effictively 600mb, and also the MIDI functionality, which is said not to be not working fully, although I didnt read into that topic much so idk) I never experienced serious bugs, the only thing that really bothered me is that I can't load my drumkits from my PC onto the Live without installing a SSD on the Live, or providing a USB-Drive or a SD Card. Also the stock sounds are not for me. I mean synth samples and dance/house baselines? I can do that with every VST in FL Studio and even change certain parameters!
I feel like that everything I'm doing on the Live won't sound any better or cooler than the stuff that I can already do with FL. I know theres many ways to the goal, but it just doesn't feel as if the MPC is giving me something or that I somehow gain some experience or something from it. That moment of enlightment didnt come yet.
And yet I watch videos of Jaisu and others who make beats on the MPC that I can only dream of. And I know what you think now... It's not the gear, it's the producer. I get that. It's just that I'm an aesthetics guy, and I find the way of that oldschool MPC with 16 pads and vinyl and stuff just so much more appealing than sitting infront of a PC with FL Studio, even if 99% of my beats are made in FL. Most guys, that I think make really, really cool music, on SoundCloud end up saying to me that they do everything with their DAW, some say they have an SP404 lying around, some use an MPD if anything from AKAI. And of course a MIDI keyboard.
So I don't wanna give up on the MPC yet, but it's just hard for me to convince myself to hold on to it! It's just a very strange situation for me. On one side I look up to people who swear on MPCs, on the other side I just can't get behind the process, it's just so strange not being able to EQ properly and mix and all these conveniences. Also arranging songs, placing certain samples at certain points and connecting external hardware. Of course it also looks way cooler to work on an MPC than on a PC... aside that, at least when it comes to the legacy models, some swear that they sound way punchier and stuff than any DAW or something.
I had the wildest ideas to solve this problem. From selling the MPC and just staying with FL Studio on the PC or to buy a Laptop for mobile use. To sell the MPC and buy a synth, to sell the MPC and get the SP404 which will probably put me intro frustration again. To keep the MPC and use it for not-at-home-purposes like when Im not on the PC. To keep it and hope that Ill grow to it. To sell it and buy a Laptop and MPD pads and use them for FL. To sell it and get a MPC2500 because its simpler and more of a sampler not a try-to-be DAW. The list is endless...
Should I just embrace that I'm a DAW guy? Should I let lose of the thaught of sitting in a dusty record store with my MPC and my 100 bucks Numark record player and dig? Can anybody relate to this? Man, I'm confused. I don't wanna give up on that dream of oldschool vibes that I ever so often have, listening to my favourite lofi and boom bap shit. I also have that feeling when I make an ill beat on the PC with FL. I like simple setups. MPC, turntable, synth. That would be awesome. Now if I could just grow to that.
And also it looks cool. Im an idiot.
Greetings from germany my gs
I have the MPC Live and I'm doing tutorials n stuff but Idk if I should keep it. I used almost 99% of the time FL STudio up to this point but I just cant get shit done on the MPC. Getting frustrated very quick. Especially EQing, Mixing, Mastering etc is so hard on the MPC. I mean and then theres guys like Jaisu, Beatminerz or Marco Polo who make illies on that thing! And don't get me started on Dilla and Nujabes, I mean it's obvious that these guys would feel very lost in a DAW, their huntinggrounds are definitly the MPCs!But for me it's the opposite right now. Today I made a beat on the MPC, it sounded complete bad, was only 8 bars, one sequence, but it contained a soul sample, AKAIs annoying stock drums and a baseline that wasn't in tune. So it sounds kinda okay, but not really where I wanna be at. Also I'm in doubt about the MPCs quality as a product itself. There's many complaints about it, many saying that it's buggy or that it sounds bad, or that AKAI itself is a bad company that feeds their customers lies (for example the promised 2GB sampling ram, which turned out to be effictively 600mb, and also the MIDI functionality, which is said not to be not working fully, although I didnt read into that topic much so idk) I never experienced serious bugs, the only thing that really bothered me is that I can't load my drumkits from my PC onto the Live without installing a SSD on the Live, or providing a USB-Drive or a SD Card. Also the stock sounds are not for me. I mean synth samples and dance/house baselines? I can do that with every VST in FL Studio and even change certain parameters!
I feel like that everything I'm doing on the Live won't sound any better or cooler than the stuff that I can already do with FL. I know theres many ways to the goal, but it just doesn't feel as if the MPC is giving me something or that I somehow gain some experience or something from it. That moment of enlightment didnt come yet.
And yet I watch videos of Jaisu and others who make beats on the MPC that I can only dream of. And I know what you think now... It's not the gear, it's the producer. I get that. It's just that I'm an aesthetics guy, and I find the way of that oldschool MPC with 16 pads and vinyl and stuff just so much more appealing than sitting infront of a PC with FL Studio, even if 99% of my beats are made in FL. Most guys, that I think make really, really cool music, on SoundCloud end up saying to me that they do everything with their DAW, some say they have an SP404 lying around, some use an MPD if anything from AKAI. And of course a MIDI keyboard.
So I don't wanna give up on the MPC yet, but it's just hard for me to convince myself to hold on to it! It's just a very strange situation for me. On one side I look up to people who swear on MPCs, on the other side I just can't get behind the process, it's just so strange not being able to EQ properly and mix and all these conveniences. Also arranging songs, placing certain samples at certain points and connecting external hardware. Of course it also looks way cooler to work on an MPC than on a PC... aside that, at least when it comes to the legacy models, some swear that they sound way punchier and stuff than any DAW or something.
I had the wildest ideas to solve this problem. From selling the MPC and just staying with FL Studio on the PC or to buy a Laptop for mobile use. To sell the MPC and buy a synth, to sell the MPC and get the SP404 which will probably put me intro frustration again. To keep the MPC and use it for not-at-home-purposes like when Im not on the PC. To keep it and hope that Ill grow to it. To sell it and buy a Laptop and MPD pads and use them for FL. To sell it and get a MPC2500 because its simpler and more of a sampler not a try-to-be DAW. The list is endless...
Should I just embrace that I'm a DAW guy? Should I let lose of the thaught of sitting in a dusty record store with my MPC and my 100 bucks Numark record player and dig? Can anybody relate to this? Man, I'm confused. I don't wanna give up on that dream of oldschool vibes that I ever so often have, listening to my favourite lofi and boom bap shit. I also have that feeling when I make an ill beat on the PC with FL. I like simple setups. MPC, turntable, synth. That would be awesome. Now if I could just grow to that.
And also it looks cool. Im an idiot.
Greetings from germany my gs
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