By Menco
Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:59 pm
Allright, this will not be a topic where u can just simply list ur gear. This will be more about how u use ur mpc, in combination with what, what ur favorite piece of gear or combo is. How u have things connected, signal flow and other tools that are significant for ur production style and sound.
There are a lot of question about what kind of specific vst or synth works best with the mpc, in what kind of way or for what people use it.
Also it might be intresting to read everybody's setup and tools to inspire each other to use their gear in a different way to create and develop new techniques and setup combinations. Or just to spark some ideas if u want to upgrade ur studio.
This is how have things setup and use it:
MPC:
MPC2500.With JJOS 3.09. If had some spare money I would buy a password, but for now I'm not really missing out however I would like to purchase it because I know JJOS1 or 2 allows me to work quicker and be more versatile. I use it as a sampler and sequencer.
Turntable to MPC
Through a vestax dj mixer-> 7band graphic equalizer-> mpc's rec inputs. I like to eq before I sample, placing samples roughly in the frequency range. Basslines are roughly drawn here before I feed them in one of my samplers.
Additional synths/samplers/vst's
I have the mpc midi'd up with a s950. I sample and chop with this sampler, and sequence it with the mpc. Just love the sound and the workflow. Really like the adsr, filter, and loop features.
Reason 4. As a soundmodlue midi'd up with the mpc. Sometimes I use it to make beats from scratch. A lot of time just to add some stuff. Problems with rewiring it and not liking the mpc/pc combo so a hardware soundmodule is on my wishlist.
Mixer,Speakers/monitors other outboard gear:
From my mpc's and s950's outs to phonic helixboard firewire 12, from there to a set of Edirol home studio monitors.
Post-production
I run everything through the helixboard 8 tracks simultaniously into Cubase LE. Have problems with rewiring reason with cubase (tryed any method I could find), so sometimes I do a mixdown on the mixingboard and record everything into a spare mpc.
Some things I record with EQ of the helixboard, but most FX are added in Cubase in the mixdown
There are a lot of question about what kind of specific vst or synth works best with the mpc, in what kind of way or for what people use it.
Also it might be intresting to read everybody's setup and tools to inspire each other to use their gear in a different way to create and develop new techniques and setup combinations. Or just to spark some ideas if u want to upgrade ur studio.
This is how have things setup and use it:
MPC:
MPC2500.With JJOS 3.09. If had some spare money I would buy a password, but for now I'm not really missing out however I would like to purchase it because I know JJOS1 or 2 allows me to work quicker and be more versatile. I use it as a sampler and sequencer.
Turntable to MPC
Through a vestax dj mixer-> 7band graphic equalizer-> mpc's rec inputs. I like to eq before I sample, placing samples roughly in the frequency range. Basslines are roughly drawn here before I feed them in one of my samplers.
Additional synths/samplers/vst's
I have the mpc midi'd up with a s950. I sample and chop with this sampler, and sequence it with the mpc. Just love the sound and the workflow. Really like the adsr, filter, and loop features.
Reason 4. As a soundmodlue midi'd up with the mpc. Sometimes I use it to make beats from scratch. A lot of time just to add some stuff. Problems with rewiring it and not liking the mpc/pc combo so a hardware soundmodule is on my wishlist.
Mixer,Speakers/monitors other outboard gear:
From my mpc's and s950's outs to phonic helixboard firewire 12, from there to a set of Edirol home studio monitors.
Post-production
I run everything through the helixboard 8 tracks simultaniously into Cubase LE. Have problems with rewiring reason with cubase (tryed any method I could find), so sometimes I do a mixdown on the mixingboard and record everything into a spare mpc.
Some things I record with EQ of the helixboard, but most FX are added in Cubase in the mixdown
lots of dilly flylo style smoked out beats...