What is the myth about the MPC sound ?

I just got a MPC-1000 after 7 years of programming on Rolands. I can definitley feel the difference when recording drums.... Its lovely. But that is just the pads and I can get a MPD-16 and use with my other gear.

Or is there a special way the MPC sounds that makes the drums BOOOM when they are sampled ? After only 1 week of spending time with it I think there IS . Any thoughts?

i dont knwo, but they deeeeeefinitly got major punch in them

EDIT: Yeah , I wonder if anyone here has sampled a real TR-808 and if it actually sounds better coming out of the MPC than the actual 808 unit?


What was written first was " I wonder if anyone here has samples........"

I didnt realize what I wrote , i wasn't looking for 808 samples even though thats what I wrote, I am looking to see how the MPC-1000 (or any MPC) makes thingd sound better. Please see edit

Thanks anyway Tdot for the link I will use em fo sho

well todays your lucky day


http://www.pornopalace.nl/TR-808/mp3/TR-808all.zip



CLASSIC 808 SAMPLES, THESE ARE GREAT QUALITY .WAVS TOO

oops , please se my post above I've edited it

I sampled my Yamaha QY-10 drum set a coupla weeks ago. (It's on my site in case anyone needs a laugh!) I did the actual sampling in 24-bit on the PC, normalized and converted, then ported to the MPC.
I have to say it sounds like the QY-10: faithful to the original "classic", but not really any better. But I haven't kicked in the Bit Cruncher yet, we'll see what that does.

IMO, Roland has a thin sound. I don't think the MPC's do anything particular. Some swear it has these "killer converters", others don't see it.

ive had loops in the mpc that i wanted to resequence in digital performer. i.e., i wanted to have another take at putting together this one beat. so i had the opportunity to hear the difference between the 2 playing the exact same material. i moved the loops from the CF card to the mac and plopped em in DP.

the sound of the loops while playing on the mpc were noticable bassier. i dont know if fuller or punchier is a word i would use. not muddy either - just kind of beefier.

it was the sort of thing that for some sounds it would be awesome, and for others it's just like "uhh ... NO."

it also happened this way when recording thru the spdif outs on the mpc to DP's inputs. it was like i lost the beef. so now if i dont want to lose that sound quality the mpc imposes, i use either the mpc's analog outs or i dont record it at all, and i run the mpc in sync with my DAW.

and all this says nothing about the rhythmic timing on the mpc, which is cool and unusual too.

The Digital-to-Analog converters on the original MPC 60 and early Akai samplers (S900/S1000/3000) had a slight midrange boost thus making the Akai stuff sound more "punchy" (cool for drums/vocals, etc). I hope they have not changed this for the MPC 1000. On some one of the samplers (S1100?) it was a switchable option

tdot wrote:well todays your lucky day


http://www.pornopalace.nl/TR-808/mp3/TR-808all.zip



CLASSIC 808 SAMPLES, THESE ARE GREAT QUALITY .WAVS TOO

Thanks for the link. The bass drums are nice.

"Some swear it has these "killer converters", others don't see it."

I do not hear it. Akai does not make the convertors and they always have been off-the-shelf convertors that are also used in other equipment requiring DACs or ADCs.

One of the much-touted features of the S1100 was "better AD/DA converters. Since they sounded very different from the older converters, a software option to switch on the old midrange-boost was added. I don't recall this being mentioned in the S3000 manual, but it and the MPC 3000 had a nice puinchy sound too.

did any of you all think that maybe its your headphones/monitors that are affecting how you hear your machines?...Case in point, I had a freind that used to claim that his 3k had better sound than the 2kxl...and you all know the BS some of these guys spit to back up their claims-"3k has better converters, its a Linn, they used cheaper this or that, etc.." well, I simply asked him to lemme borrow his headphones so I can compare..after he got done looking at me strange i took 'em home and used them on my 2kxl and lo and behold-it sounded quite beefy indeed!....turns out that it wasnt his machine makin his beats beefy, it was his headphones......

Swissmaster Cheese wrote:did any of you all think that maybe its your headphones/monitors that are affecting how you hear your machines?...Case in point, I had a freind that used to claim that his 3k had better sound than the 2kxl...and you all know the BS some of these guys spit to back up their claims-"3k has better converters, its a Linn, they used cheaper this or that, etc.." well, I simply asked him to lemme borrow his headphones so I can compare..after he got done looking at me strange i took 'em home and used them on my 2kxl and lo and behold-it sounded quite beefy indeed!....turns out that it wasnt his machine makin his beats beefy, it was his headphones......

ha ha Sherlock Holmes at work!

Swissmaster Cheese wrote:did any of you all think that maybe its your headphones/monitors that are affecting how you hear your machines?.

read my post again if u wanna...i answered that in there