Coming from 100% ITB Moving to MPC - Sequencer Shock?

nuts wrote:I like to illustrate talkings so...this is what MPC added since i can't make my computer playing and sounding like that, it will never happened ITB:

http://www.box.net/shared/4idhil0b4m

Awesome. Thanks for sharing that.

NearTao wrote:One last piece of advice before I go... I know plenty of people have already said you can capture your VA (or whatever) performance data. If you're going to use an MPC don't be so anal about editing it and making it correct. If you don't like how something sounds, undo your last take and just redo it. A lot of that "MPC" sound just comes from the human interaction, the artistic placement of mistakes... the all around 'imperfections' can make it sound that much more human and different from the often 'programmed' feel on the computer.

Best of luck!

Fantastic post... I really appreciate the time you took to write it. And I think the paragraph above says it all - the problem with software DAWs is that they invite you in to become anal about everything you perform. To be honest, it simply isn't fun. The MPC on the other hand is all about performance. It's limitation is its freedom I think.

I am going to hunt down a 1000 - I will let you all know how it works out!

Heh... glad you appreciated it...

For me all art forms, be they music, artwork, poetry or whatever are about personal expression and all the imperfections that come about from the process. Given technology today, we are fully capable to make things look/sound/taste/feel perfect... but often perfection is less interesting. Look at the air brushed women in magazines... captivating perhaps, but for how long? It can become very one dimensional quickly to see the same carbon copy rolled off the presses.

Sometimes I wonder why classic hip hop for example feels so long gone. The ideas are still there, the intent is still there but the music today is just so much different. It grew up out of necessity though... those carbon copies will catch up with you, and who doesn't want to put their own mark on something?

Anyway... I do fully support making and fixing mistakes, but a true artist's genius is not in the perfect duplication of something, but recognizing a mistake as something beautiful, interesting and worth showing off. I doubt most genres are created with the idea of intentionally creating them. Somebody probably f'd something up royally and thought "I know how I can use this!"

EDIT: Don't be afraid to go back to the computer though either... there's plenty of value there, especially once you take your newly aquired MPC mindset and bring it back to flip the whole computer paradigm back on it's head...