New Member/Mpc 500 owner

Whats good everybody

Wanted to introduce myself to the members of this forum. I'm an up & coming producer/artist along with my blood brother(s). I first picked up an MPC 2000XL along with a classic triton back in 2000. At that time I was just an artist and a big fan of music. I learned to create music by ear and eventually began to grasp it enough to put my brother on as far as how to use the mpc 2000xl and Triton together.

At that time lets just say I had a life changing experience & throughout this road bump I had my music equipment "confiscated". Years later we ended up grabbing the Tritons again. I guess you can say we've been improvising and using what we have. We've created a lot of music since then and been just been grinding. Eventually we ended finishing up a conceptual mixtape (all original music) right before 1 of my brothers/member of the group was murdered.. This was what we created with just a Triton

http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lyve-city-w ... 79040.html

I'm not promoting the mixtape heavy as google will show you (keeping low key at 1 place til I get my set up right. I'm sure you guys know how tough it is out here pushing ya music along with a million others) but I want to have it available for a few heads I know to hear or fam. I haven't done much music since then, (lost another brother after) and almost gave up.

So recently I came across this mpc 500. I was feeling the mpc 500 because it was small, could take it with you and just the way I remember the sequencer swings better then my sequencer on the Triton. So I ordered 1 off ebay 128 RAM, some Dre Drums on deck with 8 G card. Being I hadn't used this in over a decade I felt like I wasn't going to get it & wasn't inspired for the obvious

I came to this forum and I'll be honest. I hadn't spent more then an 1 hr with this mpc 500 since I had it. However because of this forum (I'll be able to use the thank you button now that my acct is active) & some youtube videos I got the fundamentals down and I'm BACK IN BUSINESS only after a few wks of having it. I needed this and glad I jumped on this. It inspired me. I remember having to read the manual word for word when I copped that 2000xl and the difference in how resourceful the net is now compared to then is nutz.

I just wanted shout the members of the forum out for having it period. I def. have questions, (coming right up) but I'm a good place right now and glad I purchased it. My bad on the novel but I believe its good to connect with people better if they know a lil bit about you..Maybe someone will read this & get inspired to do the same & not give up on anything your passionate about.

**I'm not sure if your able to post music of your work besides Soundcloud but if not moderators feel free and I'll remove my Mixtape link above.

Other then that I appreciate the helpful information on deck & thanks for reading. Back to this portable beast!

-Lyve

Welcome..

Good to know. Appreciate that

I'm another new member/500 owner. Been on Maschine for a few years which I care for a great deal, but I missed hardware. I needed something that was portable so I can rock it out at work or in the car. Much has been made of people labeling the 500 a toy, which is laughable. I'm diggin this little box, the limitations are what liberates me, very much like the SP1200 used to do. I've owned the 2000, 60, 60II, and 1000 over the years and somehow I'm going to do some of the most interesting damage on this diminutive giant. Reese's peaces.

solidwon wrote:I'm another new member/500 owner. Been on Maschine for a few years which I care for a great deal, but I missed hardware. I needed something that was portable so I can rock it out at work or in the car. Much has been made of people labeling the 500 a toy, which is laughable. I'm diggin this little box, the limitations are what liberates me, very much like the SP1200 used to do. I've owned the 2000, 60, 60II, and 1000 over the years and somehow I'm going to do some of the most interesting damage on this diminutive giant. Reese's peaces.

yo, yo.. chopping on the 500 is soooooo rewarding… I've got a fast fun chopping method on the 500.. once u get it u got it! i work on st points first..get a sample get the st point just right then copy that sample to the next pad, get that st point just right and copy that one to the next pad and get that st point just right, do this till u get the sample to as many pads as chops u want, then when u got that go look at the st point numbers of the sample before the one u want to fix the end point on, on the end points use the numeric button and type in the number from the st point before, shit goes really quick once u get it...

That is really helpful. I created a folder for the master sample, loading it to the 12th pad and using the extract function to find my slices from the original file. I appreciate the look cuzzo.

use the discard function once u got ur chops righ, this will discard the stuff on the outside of ur st and end points… lemme find my thread..

finally found it…..,…… check this post!

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=163030

That method does make a lot of sense as well... I'm going to try both of those to see what feels the best. It's important to be well versed in many different styles of kung fu! lol