Say hello to my new baby

Got this 2000XL from forum moderator Clint. Met him for the second time today, a cool dude

Of all the MPC's I've owned (1000, 2500, 60) I feel like I've found the perfect machine. It's very clean, runs perfectly with no issues. Don't ask me why but it feels so natural and more productive than my other machines. My 2500 felt like it was going to fall apart if I hit the pads hard enough.

Next on the list is SCSI drive. Just set it up, now it's time to rock this thing all weekend.

It also came with the origional box and manual which was awesome.

Congrats James! What does it have on it? Card reader? 8 outs? FX card?

JUKE 179r wrote:Congrats James! What does it have on it? Card reader? 8 outs? FX card?

32MB RAM. No card reader still on floppies but right now I'm cool with that. I love having to get creative with limted space. Eventually I'll get a SCSI drive. It does have 8 outs and FX card yeah.

Been on it all day. Absolutely loving this machine.

The XL is my newest purchase too. The only feature I don't use is the time stretch, too slow, but I use the Ren and sample from it after I stretch. No big deal.
Other than that, I've had a lot of fun. I also have the eb16 Efx card, which is a blessing. I have the card reader which makes it so easy to upload into the MPC software, when I'm done with a beat.

SILIS101 wrote:The XL is my newest purchase too. The only feature I don't use is the time stretch, too slow, but I use the Ren and sample from it after I stretch. No big deal.
Other than that, I've had a lot of fun. I also have the eb16 Efx card, which is a blessing. I have the card reader which makes it so easy to upload into the MPC software, when I'm done with a beat.

Congrats

It's crazy how many floppies are required to save a track. Sort of forces me into working a beat till completion though so I can get it out into the DAW and mixed down. But this is what I love about this way of working and wouldn't have it any other way. I've got enough floppies to do one track at a time, and then save the tracks on my computer and reuse the floppies.

well you know how to make conservative beats like on the sp or mpc 60.. didn't you have some old equipment like those? When done on the 2000xl it works out quite well because many samples in ram can have several things done to them that create a new sound... but all the features do make it tempting to have more samples loaded which is fine if you have that CF reader.

mr_debauch wrote:well you know how to make conservative beats like on the sp or mpc 60.. didn't you have some old equipment like those? When done on the 2000xl it works out quite well because many samples in ram can have several things done to them that create a new sound... but all the features do make it tempting to have more samples loaded which is fine if you have that CF reader.

Yeah I had the 1200 and 60. That's when I first learn't about being conservative with samples. I really enjoyed that workflow. I do miss my SP and when I get the cash together I will get another. Clint's just holding for me ha ha ha!

If I'm honest, after using it all weekend I might just stick to the floppies. For some odd reason I just like it this way. 10 floppies per track is painstaking, but like you said if you're careful you can really squeeze a lot onto a few floppies.

here is what i suggest...

1) keep every sample mono. pan drums and shit to get back your stereo image...
2) Don't load samples, only record them in.. and...
3) in trim, cut every micro millimeter off the sample... even if you hear a little bit of tail air.. sometimes cutting it can be fine since you have the eb16. only thing is it seems like the eb16 takes a stereo signal and turns it to mono.. or something funny happens. I forget because i stopped caring about little stupid details like that. However, if you are filtering (or using eb16 fx that need to be full wet) then turn direct signal off... then fx send will be the new volume control.. and the distortion overdrive effect will be your extra gain.
4) sinewave bass etc.. these bass notes are great because you can loop a millisecond sample instead of having to record one the right length. Also, you have phase effects in the eb16 that can add some changes to the bass to make it sound less like a millisecond loop repeating.

etc..

95% of my beats are 1 floppy disk. rarely are there 2 or 3 disk projects... and most of the time when that is the case.. it's a bunch of longer loops for live set type shit.

mr_debauch wrote:here is what i suggest...

1) keep every sample mono. pan drums and **** to get back your stereo image...
2) Don't load samples, only record them in.. and...
3) in trim, cut every micro millimeter off the sample... even if you hear a little bit of tail air.. sometimes cutting it can be fine since you have the eb16. only thing is it seems like the eb16 takes a stereo signal and turns it to mono.. or something funny happens. I forget because i stopped caring about little stupid details like that. However, if you are filtering (or using eb16 fx that need to be full wet) then turn direct signal off... then fx send will be the new volume control.. and the distortion overdrive effect will be your extra gain.
4) sinewave bass etc.. these bass notes are great because you can loop a millisecond sample instead of having to record one the right length. Also, you have phase effects in the eb16 that can add some changes to the bass to make it sound less like a millisecond loop repeating.

etc..

95% of my beats are 1 floppy disk. rarely are there 2 or 3 disk projects... and most of the time when that is the case.. it's a bunch of longer loops for live set type ****.

Some awesome advice right there. Thanks! And holy **** 1 floppy! Im going to try do my next beat on 1 and see how that goes. My last one was 3 but thats only because I used a seperate floppy for the sequence I really didn't need to.

Welcome to the dinosaur club, James.

Looks good

Lampdog wrote:How is Clint doing? Haven't heard from him in a long while.

He's good. He did mention he hasn't been active on the forums in a while. Busy with work I assume.