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By PURPLE URKLE Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:23 am
I BOUGHT AN MPC 1000, I HAVENT HAD A CHANCE TO GET ANY SAMPLES ON YET DUE TO THE FACT THAT I ONLY HAVE A STOCK MPC WHICH MAKES THINGS DIFFICULT TO START WITH.

I ALSO ORDERED RAM MEMORY check out below

Kingston Value
RAM 256MB PC133
SODIMM CL3
$40.99

does anyone kno if 256 mb is gonna make a difference?
By xibalba1875 Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:13 pm
well you already ordered it so you pretty much have no choice but to try it. and BTW there is already a sticky thread with RAM suggestions that has been up for around two years.
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By J-tawn Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:56 pm
yea i bought the exact same type of card.. 2 days letter i started getin crash messages had to go back to the 16mb which is very possible to make a beat out of... i just ordered the akai ram chip so i dont have any more problems
By xibalba1875 Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:16 pm
K-Mello wrote:
_Stilo_ wrote:lol...people don't even start with their MPC anymore because it has only 16MB? WTF?


Can you imagine where we would be now if the pioneers *only* had 16MB to work with?!?

:roll:

Peace,
KM


i think i half agree with both of yall. i think having 128 to work with can be quite crazy but i find it helpful ex. im recording a track right now that one of the samples im manipulating the vinyl live and its nice to have that space because i can record several takes then edit them down and cut it so i have the best performance out of those ones. now i could easily do this in my DAW but i like working with my MPC. and if i had such few ram to work with. i would constantly have to record the phrase then edit it immedatily then record the next phrase and edit that immediatly. where as i can edit them all at the same time. and piece it together at the same time as well.

on the other hand i can see where it can get out of hand. the less the ram the smarter one can think where as the more ram available the more one can get lazier.


and yes there are still great hits coming out on older gear.

aesop rock - none shall pass most tracks by blockhead who does all of his work on an asr-10 BUT he does still import to protools.