i'ma geek out right now cause i love madlib....
(check stonesthrow.com for samples of his stuff)
from what i can remember he was mostly rocking the sp1200, especially during the period that he did the lootpack album (classic beats on here, an amazing album if you don't already own it) and the quasimoto album (probalbly one of my all time favorite albums, its a strange album but AMAZING production wise).
then i read an interview around when he did the shades of blue album (beats made from samples he took from the jazz label blue note records). at that point he said he pretty much only used the sp-303 for that album. and i think it been like that ever since. sp-303. cats flipped when they found that out cause its such a cheap piece of gear and yet he can flip the craziest beats out it.
....PLUS the effects on the 303 are pretty damn nice. the bit cruncher in the 303 ACTUALLY WORKS. you can make stuff SUPER grimey and punchy (close to how an sp1200 would) when you mess with the bit rate on the 303. sooo nice, unlike the crappy one in the 1000 which just sounds like a cheap guitar distortion pedal put on top of whatever you try to use it on....ehh, to me its really friggin horrible and isn't actually changing the bitrate or at least sounding like it. akai kinda pussed out on that one.
oh and to pwmars question:
one good way of enhancing stuff on the 1000 to gett sick bass would be to resample stuff filtered. say you have a bass drum on pad1. filter it down with a low pass filter so its just all lowend. then record the sample internally in the 1000 as it is, filtered. trim and save this sample under a new name. now go back to pad1 (which has your original bass drum sample) and in the sample assignments for pad1 add your filtered sample to layer 2. you have to make sure they match up properly as far start points. but now your bass drum will have a lot more bottom added to it. works good for snares, as well as most things.
now i've never tried doing this with a bass note but i guess if you filter it super low and keep piling it on it might have a noticeable effect.
....and since i assume you like madlib from your post this other tip might be helpful. if you want to make stuff grimier (dropping bitrate to sound more raw/sp1200) you can do it. one way is to take a sample like a snare and tune it UP by like 20. then rerecord it and assign it to another pad. then on that pad tune it DOWN by 20. makes it nice and dirty/punchy, lots of digital artifacts and what not. you can make stuff sound like it was sampled on an atari if you go crazy with this.
there are many ways to flip stuff once you sample it into the 1000. just gotta sit there and try until it sounds right.
(or search through the old posts, thats pretty much where i learned everything i just posted).
ok hope this helped and sorry for this long ass novel of a post.
i have too much time on my hands.
peace.
