Question regarding MPC 1K

I'm thinking about purchasing either 1K or 2k XL. I will be recording mainly with my pc. I haven't had a satisfied result with reason and fruity loops. Drum just sounds weak in that thing and I hear some songs used with MPC and it sounds full. I heard 2K XL provides fuller sounds than 1K but I don't know since I haven't used'em for myself. Can you hook your table and take out samples directly like 2K XL with 1K? Give me any advice on this one. Thank you.

If your speaking about usin a turntable yes you can. But even on the 2xl you'll need to run your turntable into either a dj mixer, or some kind of pre amp to power it. unless your using a self powered turntable like the vestax handy trax, or the nurmark one. Just so you know the 1k doesn't come w/ zoning, or timestreching. Since your mentioned recording on your pc, that might be already taken care of with some kind of 3rd party software like: recycle, acid, live, etc.

shadowboxin wrote:I'm thinking about purchasing either 1K or 2k XL. I will be recording mainly with my pc. I haven't had a satisfied result with reason and fruity loops. Drum just sounds weak in that thing and I hear some songs used with MPC and it sounds full. I heard 2K XL provides fuller sounds than 1K but I don't know since I haven't used'em for myself. Can you hook your table and take out samples directly like 2K XL with 1K? Give me any advice on this one. Thank you.

the different sound of the 2k compared to the 1k is that its more of a dark sound or some shit, probably not noticable, certainly doesnt make a difference to joe blogs.

what you need to do is normalize and EQ everything.

Its no the machine that makes the drums sound phat. Its the way you manipulate the drum sound using filters, compression, eq etc to achieve that thumping PHAT sound we all know and love. Im quite sure that if you had a play around with some of the effects and parameters in reason or flstudio then you could make your drums sound just as good as an mpc.

Boab

I thought the MPC 1k had a more phatt switch and a bumpin knob...

I think those are comin along with the new os update.


jus playin