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By Tru4LifeRecords Tue May 04, 2004 4:01 am
I am yet to buy a MPC1k and I plan to buy the Oxygen-8 controller because I plan to travel alot and I produce with speed. (Hip-Hop). Does anyone have any better set-up b4 I make this purchase?
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By incurablebeatlust Tue May 04, 2004 4:20 am
this ia a tidy little setup. quite powerful enough for hip hop for sure. maybe add some headphones to the picture and youre off...
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By djadonis206 Tue May 04, 2004 5:05 am
Tru4LifeRecords wrote:I am yet to buy a MPC1k and I plan to buy the Oxygen-8 controller because I plan to travel alot and I produce with speed. (Hip-Hop). Does anyone have any better set-up b4 I make this purchase?


Keep in mind the 1000 doesn't have very many features that can be conrolled via a midi contoller - but the keys on a Oxygen 8 would be nice

By Frankly Tue May 04, 2004 6:07 am
Add a laptop with software and ur set.

By thynctank Fri May 07, 2004 1:45 am
As cats on here already have stated, you'll need a laptop or a rack type unit of some kind, since the MPC is not set up for keyboard playback of its samples anyway. You can lay out programs that will play correctly using a keyboard but it is an extremely tedious process, and results are much less convincing or accurate than using, say, an S series sampler or a software rack sampler.

A piece of software or small rack or desktop unit that responds to Midi note numbers will do you good with that Oxygen. And if I'm not mistaken, it'll run off USB so you don't need to lug another adapter around with you.

-tank.