Reviews and questions about the entry-level MPC500
By spacecat Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:32 am
Just the other day i was sampling 4 short parts of a record at 45 rpm, sped them up even more in the mpc and then pitched them down, to get that lofi sound (works even better on the 500 than on my previous 2000 and 2000xl). I've found that it turns out real nice sometimes, but it seems like its a random thing. At first I figured it was just that some records suited better for it, but now instead of chopping one sample up when i sampled 4 parts, all 4 sounded slightly different from eachother, the first one got a real nice lofi crisp to it, while the other ones where more or less muffled! not that they sounded bad, but not as perfect as the first one. Is this the mpc or is it just that the needle landed differently on the record each time?

By oraziodelcore Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:20 pm
thats the same technique as Dj shadow used to use on his endtroducing album.
I know a lot of samplingproducers used that technique to get around the samplingtime issues in the early days of sampling.

But its real nice!

Oj då du var också från Sverige, jag såg inte det =)
(oops, you are from sweden to, I didn't see that=)

By spacecat Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:41 am
yessir :) kör mest med min sp1200 faktiskt så där är det nästan ett måste att göra så! var bor du? :)

By oraziodelcore Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:28 am
bor i malmö. Var bor du?

By spacecat Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:02 pm
Norrköping :)

By Emilie Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:28 pm
Tal lige pænt tak. Jeg fatter jo ikke en fis :wink:

By btotheg Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:38 am
came across the same thing... down pitched three different parts from the same record and each one sounds different. and i've had the same result on both the 500 and 1000.
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By damien907 Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:54 pm
ive never heard of this, how do you downpitch?