Tracking beats

Eill someone please explain to me what tracking beats are ? i mean i been doing this for about a year but i never heard of tracking beats until today, so since i try to learn everthing i can to help anf better what i'm trying to do i thought that i;d better ask someone what it was and the purpose of it .
so if anyone could help me on this matter thanks in advance akai!

Each sound has its own track so you can add effects, proccess sounds, and mix the volume of each individualy for a better product.

When someone ask me to track a beat out, its basically me using my 8outs and hooking it up into my computer(PT) and syncing them via midi hitting playing and recording them all as audio files, repeat for the amount of tracks

Thats tracking

what you do from there is mixing

ok i think i have an idea, is tracking when you lay down everything on its own track? kick(trk 1) snar(trk 2) like that ? if so i've been doing all that all this time and didn't know that name of it.

Multi trackin. Then comes Mixing. That means eq'ing. panning, getting every thing sounding nice.

U got somewhat of the idea of trackin akai! U seperate yur sounds just like u stated![kick track1, hihats track2 and etc......] then u use yur assignable outputs to track each sound individually to cubase or protools! Then from there u can add effects, process sounds, and mix the volume of each individual sound for a better product.

U arent tracking on your MPC

We mean when you take your sequences and put them into .wav format on a multitracker program or hardware

What up Iceberg-Slim

akai
You cannot get the attention to detail with out recording each sound to its own track. If you have the basline and snare on the same track the snare will never get as crispy and shaped properly as well as the bass won't get punchy or deep enogh. You will always have to comprimise. Plus if you want to compress something it will effect the other sound on the track aswell. You will limit your mix with out tracking.

Ron wrote:What up Iceberg-Slim

akai
You cannot get the attention to detail with out recording each sound to its own track. If you have the basline and snare on the same track the snare will never get as crispy and shaped properly as well as the bass won't get punchy or deep enogh. You will always have to comprimise. Plus if you want to compress something it will effect the other sound on the track aswell. You will limit your mix with out tracking.

this is not always bad tho. cuz limitations is the best way to learn IMO. or master whatever u are workin with. this is the reason primo still uses the mpc60 because he likes the low sample time it has. not that, that has anything to do with multitrackin but its just an example.

You know how I leaned to do what I do?
I litterally screwed things up. I blew speakers, Fried amps, crashed computers, erased the internal sounds of my gear. I did not go to school for this. That shoks people but no high dollar client ever asked to see my degree. They have just heard my work and seeked me out. So butcher I feel you. Neccesity is the mother of invention. If you do not have a multi track system I am not saying not to record. Apologeeese if that was the impression I gave. Do your thing but it you do have access to a multi track system please use it.

no i hear you. if i had a multitracker u better believe i would be using that shit. but im just sayin there are ways around it.

Nada Ron, just been working everyday hard on my sequencing and mixing, been recording some friends in the area as well, doing what ya told me basically

Yeah, another perk to multitracking beats, is this.... say you're using Pro Tools (Becasue i use it, lol).... After you track your beat, if you have ur artist come and rap over the same pro tools track, then it makes mixing down a lot better, because then u can mix tha beat around tha rappers voice and make it perfect opposed to mixing the rappers voice around a two-tracked beat, because the rappers voice is supposed 2 stand out

As far as stretching the limitations, if you are so inclined you CAN use the mpc as a multitracker. Yup, tracking live guitars or drums over sequenced stuff...record mpc to cassette, record guitars or drums with cassette in headphones to mpc, cut it and place it. I mean you have 6 minutes of sample time, use it. Shit I used to multitrack with two boomboxes, record to one box, play that box and play something else live, record that, etc. There's a lot you can do with two boomboxes.

u 2 ghetto with that