How often do you work on your MPC?

i havent made a beat in over 3 weeks

yea ive had tha same thing happen to me , trust me when u get back into makin a beat u'll make a sick one fo real , cuz i stoped for about 3 weeks too, cuz i had so much stress and pressure on my mind , then i made a fire beat outta it , its like i jumped up better than before.

sometimes i get so involved in creating music, that i dont have time for the business side of things. So for now, im taking a break from creating so i can focus on keeping things moving. Gotta keep shows booked, gotta finish organizing Hoodstock. I also have to put out these mixtapes, so watch out for those when they drop!

Antonym wrote:on these forums, a beat usual means an 8 bar loop. these guys aren't churning out 3+ SONGS a day, normally just beats, snippets of what may eventually become a full song.

A beat dont have to be 8 bars to me..It can be 2 bars and i can change it up and make it 8 or 16 even by changin the drum pattern or playing the loop or sample different.

But a beat is just a basic layout or skeleton of the way your drums, samples, extra sample snippets are going to be played. etc.

yeah i was just saying usually.

Antonym wrote:daily for 4+ hours.

damn what you do for a job man?

i barley have the time to bump the mpc once or twice a week

right now i just moved so i'm looking for a new job

but here's how it usually works - the more i have other things to do like a job, the more i work on my mpc. all day at work i'm sweating, lifting shit, dealing with assholes and i'm just like damn i wish i was at my mpc...

then i get home, get on it and don't leave for hours.

when i don't have any other work to do (school, job, etc) i spend LESS time on it because i have less pressure. it's alway there, so i'm less apt to sit down and stay there for extended periods of time.

my best music comes when i'm at school and i got mad homework to do...i end up doing music instead.

hopefully i'll get work in the next couple days, either at goodwill (where i cut off part of my finger last year, if you recall) or at guitar center so i can buy mad cables and get a discount.

Antonym wrote:mad cables and get a discount.

I love cables

i think i'm gonna take a vacation day on tuesday and bang out a 4 day weekend. that'd be dope.

beats, learning and more learning

Antonym wrote:right now i just moved so i'm looking for a new job

but here's how it usually works - the more i have other things to do like a job, the more i work on my mpc. all day at work i'm sweating, lifting ****, dealing with assholes and i'm just like damn i wish i was at my mpc...

then i get home, get on it and don't leave for hours.

when i don't have any other work to do (school, job, etc) i spend LESS time on it because i have less pressure. it's alway there, so i'm less apt to sit down and stay there for extended periods of time.

my best music comes when i'm at school and i got mad homework to do...i end up doing music instead.

hopefully i'll get work in the next couple days, either at goodwill (where i cut off part of my finger last year, if you recall) or at guitar center so i can buy mad cables and get a discount.

i read somewhere that you use your mpc in public places am i right?

if yes do you have a battery or something?

every single day i use my mp its starting to take over my motif i find my self making alot more sampled beats now lol the mpc is like crack and i got some new stuff i made lately at www.myspace.com/gdiproductions

no battery pack - i just plug into a wall socket

If you want i have the Guitar center certification tests you have to take i can send them to you i was A certified when i left ( just means more money ) The only downfall i had when i worked at gc was i spent almost as much as i made on gear. Cables are Apple ( macs , ipods and shit ) products are the only 2 things that you cannot get discounts on at gc. ( well you can get the hosa cables cheap but i dont think thats what you want. ) Also after you become atleast C level certified you get free software from the software providers so you know there products. I got about 5000 - 7000 worth of free software while i worked there. Plus we got all the free magizines we wanted.

i work my real job 7 to 5 mon - fri - i make about 6 songs a week, and about 10 rough songs every few days....atleast 20 - 25 hrs a week, and now with this new beta os, i'll be able to work a lot quicker