beginner with absolutely no knowledge of MPC

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Re: beginner with absolutely no knowledge of MPC

By dcook79 Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:19 pm
its was for all the bickering back and forth..........

Just **** jump in head first and make some god damn beats for crying out loud.........there are no clear cut "almighty" answers, to any aspect in life for that matter........just start making beats and in this golden age of information..... google, youtube, forums, etc. are your friends (So is learning by doing).

Don t be afraid to dig for info like you would dig for a dope record. ........before you ask for help from someone else that has done your diggin for you. Hard work aint asking someone else to do it for you.....now when you searched hi and low and still haven't found the right answer, then look to your peers

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Re: beginner with absolutely no knowledge of MPC

By sample platter Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:24 pm
yeah i get what all of you are saying. i started looking into the manual late last night and actually did pick up some things. i think the first time around i looked at it i might have been a little **** up at the moment, it's starting to make sense. it was a dumb question, i will come back when i have something useful to ask.
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Re: beginner with absolutely no knowledge of MPC

By Lampdog Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:55 pm
Make practice beats, and actually DO/execute the buttons and functions you read about.
You'll learn how your machine acts and reacts, then when you know that stuff you can dream up ways to do
things, that's the point where you start to grow and get experience, until then, read and push buttons.

Re: beginner with absolutely no knowledge of MPC

By Wise_Dome Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:14 pm
This forum is the most resourceful database for anything mpc related on the internet.
Before i got my mpc i was on here reading every thread i could, and when i got my mpc i continued to read. The manual is a bible IMO, go through it whenever you can and practice the steps over and over. Know what each function does and why you would even want/need to use it. I've enjoyed learning about my mpc and im still learning. i think having a minimal setup helps cause then your focusing your attention purely on the one thing, i just had my mpc, a few kits and samples and my headphones and just experimented with different functions to see how it changed or effected the sounds. I've found that because you physically have to press buttons etc its taught me about functions on my DAW that i never understood.
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Re: beginner with absolutely no knowledge of MPC

By Lampdog Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:51 pm
Wise_Dome wrote:This forum is the most resourceful database for anything mpc related on the internet.
Before i got my mpc i was on here reading every thread i could, and when i got my mpc i continued to read. The manual is a bible IMO, go through it whenever you can and practice the steps over and over. Know what each function does and why you would even want/need to use it. I've enjoyed learning about my mpc and im still learning. i think having a minimal setup helps cause then your focusing your attention purely on the one thing, i just had my mpc, a few kits and samples and my headphones and just experimented with different functions to see how it changed or effected the sounds. I've found that because you physically have to press buttons etc its taught me about functions on my DAW that i never understood.

That is precisely why I preach "rtm and push buttons".

Me, when I buy something I always rtfm cause I bought it, I wanna know what it does, what it's all about.
It's mine, so I wanna know. You'll go far doing exactly what you just stated. 8)

sample platter wrote:i don't like the manual.

sample platter wrote:the manual served me well so far.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Learn the functions from your manual, then make practice beats and put those functions to creative use.
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