Akai MPC5000's gone? (NOT OFFICIAL, JUST SPECUALTION)

I think kids have to realize that when making beats, especially sample beats, most of the "production" time is spent on searching for, finding, recording and editing samples. I gues most people rather step through all their presets and take what is cool instead of doing a bit of thinking like "what do I want the joint to sound like". Actually dealing a bit with synth programming can get you where you wanna go, without buying all the synths available on the market.

And one thing concerning so called "producers": The first time you can really call yourself a producer is when you spotted a musician (be it a guitar player or a singer or whatever), convinced him or her of working with you and succeeding in motivating him or her to do a TOP performance for you in a recording session. If that's what you've achieved besides making the beat then you're a producer!

Just my 2 cents!

we don't want to get 'too smart', ... if we make the answer 'too easy', then we won't have anymore 'newbs' to make fun of. lol

Dan L wrote:I'm just starting out making my own beats and I know it will takes YEARS of digging and making average beats before I could consider myself to be a real beat maker.
(rant off)

And here's the rub... if you have a 500gb sample library it is nearly impossible to organize and keep track of, plus 99% of it is probably either rubbish or stuff you'll never use because you don't like it and it doesn't fit your sound.

Heck I've got a 32GB CF card in my 500 using about 16gb of space and am really thinking of going Publishers Clearinghouse on that ish. I need to spend half a day or so just listening to samples doing the thumbs up/thumbs down and just delete all the thumbs downs. Bet I could get down to 1-4gb of space in no time. Why do I want to keep previewing the same junky samples just to get to the good stuff?

Oh well... time to give myself a kick in the pants.

EDIT: And oh yeah... I always tell everyone to not try and FX junky samples into good samples... sometimes it works, but I'd rather take good samples and make them great.

NearTao wrote:And here's the rub... if you have a 500gb sample library it is nearly impossible to organize and keep track of, plus 99% of it is probably either rubbish or stuff you'll never use because you don't like it and it doesn't fit your sound.

Heck I've got a 32GB CF card in my 500 using about 16gb of space and am really thinking of going Publishers Clearinghouse on that ish. I need to spend half a day or so just listening to samples doing the thumbs up/thumbs down and just delete all the thumbs downs. Bet I could get down to 1-4gb of space in no time. Why do I want to keep previewing the same junky samples just to get to the good stuff?

Oh well... time to give myself a kick in the pants.

EDIT: And oh yeah... I always tell everyone to not try and FX junky samples into good samples... sometimes it works, but I'd rather take good samples and make them great.

i'm telling you guys that if we let this 'sacred knowledge' get too out there, the newbs may become so empowered that they will be able to completely overcome us by sheer numbers alone!!!!

but for real though, ... this is so like the pure raw knowledge.

What was this thread about again?

Didn't it start as yo momma jokes?

clint246clint wrote:What was this thread about again?

It was about how 4000 user's are butt hurt that it was called the 5000 and not the 3500 like it should have been.... So they make up stories and post them online.

Dan L wrote:

clint246clint wrote:What was this thread about again?

It was about how 4000 user's are butt hurt that it was called the 5000 and not the 3500 like it should have been.... So they make up stories and post them online.

what are you talking about? should have been? the first run of them were called and marked as 3500... they just changed the name last second to make it seem epic like it was flagship worthy. what does it really have over the 2500 when it comes to pro features on a piece of hardware? All the additional features are software based except for the smidgen more ram you get and what? 2 q links? Okay it is true, you can program a lot of worthy features into the machines software that it's superior processor can achieve... this was a lazy flagship. No aksys style thing, less then half the ram of the previous flagship, only 16bit wav instead of 24 like the previous flagship in an era where 32bit wav is becoming used... come on, this is shit that should have been on the "for sure" list.