oneday2one wrote:all i can say is roni size and the full cycle crew's original style was to create all the drum beats/patterns/breaks/and bass lines on an mpc, ... then transfer it over to pro tools.
that was back when they made 'new forms' cd, ... the one that won the mercury prize.
that being said, ... most d&b producers, (i think hospital records is the most prestigous now?), use cubase while many others have drifted most towards hip hop or somewhere in between, ... prefuse 73, amon tobin, dj shadow, etc.
also, ... i love this, ... i make hip hop, ... but the above mentioned people and times etc are my brains bread and butter, ... have always been. also, ... i don't know but wonder how goldie made the timeless cd and if an mpc was involved.
anyway, ... you get the idea, ... you can sample breaks, ... or even harder, program your own drums, ... if you do that, i slow up the tempo to half time to get things right then speed it back up again., .... no links to anything i've made that's d&b, at least currently that is. good luck, ... explore.
I think the majority of older dnb heads used the Emu samplers, or the rack mount Akai units (Photek, Source Direct etc... Fanu still uses an Akai s5000). Nice to know that the MPC did get some use though! Hospital is a huge label in dnb terms, but has become very commercial souding of late, not really a patch on what they were a few years back in my opinion. Metalheadz is still the label that is universally accepted as the one. But listen to their back catalogue and you understand why
I'd say most of the newer heads use Logic, probably due to the stability of Macs. Although it seems a few are still very hardware orientated, Instra:Mental, Paradox although he's been around since day dot... for example.
Sorry about that little tangent... anyway... Ibunshi who posts on here uses an MPC I presume, and his tunes are dark! Really well programmed breaks, you'd do well to start off there!
