make a best/ worst mpc 1000 tips list

Best: "actually i managed to erace all of my internal ram by tricking my mpc. i loaded all of its internal memory. eraced 1 sample per kit in the trim menu and saved to the internal memory.now what the mpc does is it eraces all old saves before it saves a new one so i waited until it reached 100% in its erasing screen then turned it off. turned it back on and there u have it it eraced its own memory. ready to go at full service."

Worst:???



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best: Its so portable I can bring it into work and makes beats all day


worst: lack of sample editing made me go out and waste 6 bills on an asr 10

Worst: Lack of editing all around pressured me to copp a MPC 4000.

Best: Tell you what, I don't care how windy it is, not a single sheet of paper will fly away if you set a MPC 1000 on them.

Knoxximus wrote:Best: Tell you what, I don't care how windy it is, not a single sheet of paper will fly away if you set a MPC 1000 on them.

ahhhhhhhhhhahaha

best: can use it to blow some producers who use more capable tools out of the fukkin water

worst: not many useful effects but i don't care, i can deal.

Hey, Tdot...didn't recognize you there.....

best: use a footswitch and asign a kick to it so that its like a real kick drum.

worst: use a footswitch and asign a kick to it so that its like a real kick drum.

best: using a sound like an open triangle, putting phase shift and reverb on it, turning the tune down to about -24, and putting the slider asigned to the pad on tune shift. sounds dark

worst: using your 1k while taking a bath

murj wrote:best: using a sound like an open triangle, putting phase shift and reverb on it, turning the tune down to about -24, and putting the slider asigned to the pad on tune shift. sounds dark

sounds crazy, imma try that.


+'s & -'s

+ its soooooo portable. im havin a gig on saturday and didnt think
for a second of not taking it with me.

+ it's so new, and...fresh, you know? i'd hate to hassle with zip's and
scsi's, thats just not my thing and im loving the cf and praising it every
single second.

+ the upgrade to 128mb ....gonna get it first hand
as soon as i gather the money.

- the red & blue look is toyish i gotta admit, but it can be painted so it's
really not a -.

- the sound. in my opinion it's lacking the warmth and somewhat the
punch. there's no point of recording a drum track without compression
cause it just wont rock and what i've heard, the 2k has better punch
even though it hasn't got a fitted compressor. i dont mind thou, i rock
the shiiiz out of this machine!

- the sound. in my opinion it's lacking the warmth and somewhat the
punch. there's no point of recording a drum track without compression
cause it just wont rock and what i've heard, the 2k has better punch
even though it hasn't got a fitted compressor. i dont mind thou, i rock
the shiiiz out of this machine!

how much of this do you think is placebo effect? personally i really cannot hear a difference, when it's all said and done.

i witnessed a beat-off live beat tournament between an mpc1k guy and a 2k guy, and even though the 2k guy won because he was much better (had been producing for years longer than the former) the sound quality was jsut about exactly the same...they were doing live drums, too

Antonym wrote:

- the sound. in my opinion it's lacking the warmth and somewhat the
punch. there's no point of recording a drum track without compression
cause it just wont rock and what i've heard, the 2k has better punch
even though it hasn't got a fitted compressor. i dont mind thou, i rock
the shiiiz out of this machine!

how much of this do you think is placebo effect? personally i really cannot hear a difference, when it's all said and done.

i witnessed a beat-off live beat tournament between an mpc1k guy and a 2k guy, and even though the 2k guy won because he was much better (had been producing for years longer than the former) the sound quality was jsut about exactly the same...they were doing live drums, too

i def know what you mean by that placebo-effect, but that's still the
conclusion i've come up with. actually im listening right now some local 2k
production and im pretty sure i cant re-create that sound. but like i said,
i dont mind, im fine with the sound im getting now and try to make the
best of it.

best - it's a great all in one solution, especially if you don't mind using your PC to generate/edit your sounds. You look cool using it live, as a drum machine it can't be beat.

cons - takes too darn long to do anything and the lack of ability to edit/warp samples on the fly. I will be going for a laptop/ableton thing for my live sets after summer. The more I use this machine the more it makes sense to me that Hip hop musicians use and love it - it's all about getting a groove going.... not really the sort of madass stuff I do.

Just imagine if you crossed a MPC1000 with a Korg Electribe ES-1.... that would be something worth getting!

tdot wrote:best: Its so portable I can bring it into work and makes beats all day


worst: lack of sample editing made me go out and waste 6 bills on an asr 10

the asr 10 doesnt chop ANY easier than the 1k does, its even more of a hassle

Capshun wrote:

tdot wrote:best: Its so portable I can bring it into work and makes beats all day


worst: lack of sample editing made me go out and waste 6 bills on an asr 10

the asr 10 doesnt chop ANY easier than the 1k does, its even more of a hassle

not if ur used to it...

Capshun wrote:

tdot wrote:best: Its so portable I can bring it into work and makes beats all day


worst: lack of sample editing made me go out and waste 6 bills on an asr 10

the asr 10 doesnt chop ANY easier than the 1k does, its even more of a hassle

im not really looking for the easy route though. I like to get hands on with my samples that way I know exactly what I chopped up and why. Not just using an auto zoning feature where it cuts up everything into 1/4s or whatever

The MPC's easy to cut samples, but other than adjusting an envelope and settinng the tune, there isnt much editing options available

^^ yeah. i usually throw about 3 versions of the same zoned sample onto a program and just make them the different abcd banks. some i distort, some i phase....use the pc to give you extra options first, then you can always go back and edit something later on.

i didn' buy the mpc to edit samples though, since i started as a computer based producer i still have no problems going back into acid, cubase or Sound forge.