By Jonespnice1
Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:11 pm
DJ Hellfire wrote:Jonespnice1 wrote:I think everyone has a workflow that works for them. I have a friend that's been using Pro Tools for years and at first he didn't know how to sync his external keyboard with Pro Tools to dump his tracks for mixing. He developed his workflow, he would hit record/start on pro tools and then start playback on his Roland keyboard and record 1 track at a time (all the way thru for each track) and then after every track is recorded into pro tools he would trim and align them and move them to the beginning in pro tools. After I started using pro tools (a couple of years later) I figured out how to sync it so I tried to teach him but he said nah my way is quicker for me. The point is everybody has their own workflow that works for them.
Makes sense. But in the case of naming from an MPC's pads, I don't really see how that can possibly be any faster than just using a keyboard, unless your keyboard is way across the room somewhere. And I actually memorized how to type on MPC pads and can do it pretty quickly, for what it is. But you have to keep in mind that some letters, you have to press a pad two or three times just to access, and the same goes for punctuation. With a keyboard you press a letter once and it's onto the next. So I don't really buy the whole "workflow" thing in this regard. As an experienced user of both methods, the desire to have the MPC method is just nostalgia of feeling like you're on a standalone unit. There's no actual real speed benefit to it no matter how fast you can tap the letters out. Not saying there's anything wrong with wanting this feature. I just don't buy the whole faster workflow part of it. It's more like a boutique feature to me. Maybe just my opinion!
I Agree with you it's not faster, as a matter of fact I used a keyboard all the time with my MPC 4000 but for some people workflow isn't always about speed it's more about how they like to work.
I have another friend (sorry about all the stories, lol) and when we were teenagers we'd be walking around somewhere and if I happened to split a pole this dude would walk all the way back and go on the other side of the pole, he'd say "that's bad luck to split a pole" and it would piss me off because it made no sense but after a while I just accepted it as that's him being him. That was his workflow (so to speak) and it made sense to him.
MPC X, Apollo, Maschine , Advance 61, Omnispere 2, Trilian, Keystation, Serato sample, komplete 10, Fabfilter plugins, Kore 2.
