First beat with the new soundcard

Today I was able to borrow a firewire card from work, finally being able to hook the motu 828 up to my computer. This is the first beat made with the improved setup.

Get it here: http://sensevista.org/mpc/beat-38.mp3 (right click, save as)

About the beat
I started with recording the (acoustic) piano part, then added some overdrive, bitreduction and vinyl crackle to make it sound a bit more authentic (cheesy as hell, I know, but are you going to do when it sounds too damn clean?). Then I chopped it up and rearranged it slightly.

The bassline is a simple acoustic bass patch mixed with a straight sinebass from the nord rack.

The rhodes line is just me playing unquantized.

The drums are kind of off, we'll see if I get around to fixing 'em for the final version, right now I'm just happy to have my setup up and running again.

i like this, what u make it with?

jstrumental: thanks.

Instruments used: MPC1000 (drums), Nord Rack2 (part of the bassline), S2000 (multisampled keys & bass)

Cubase SL for mixing and arrangement.

this was cool, it just sounded to "presetty" no what i mean? also that vinly distortion i thought u had a prob with ur scard cause of the crackle, but i read u did that on purpose

Top notch shit manye. What can you do with that Cubase man? I mean is it better then recording songs in Cool Edit Pro because thats what I been doin? I stopped usin' Cakewalk Music Creator because it came out soundin' like static was in it. And I can't use Pro Tools because I got Windows XP.

DJ 2Much wrote: And I can't use Pro Tools because I got Windows XP.

Sorry to interupt but.............



Pro Tools is Windows XP compatible.


now back to the regularly scheduled program......

FOR REAL!? It says on the site its only for Windows 98 & Windows ME.

thats just the free version, hte real version is compatible

yo that sound that you have that comes in about half way through sounds like a guitar or keys or something....raise the Pitch on that B!tch!

binger0 wrote:this was cool, it just sounded to "presetty" no what i mean? also that vinly distortion i thought u had a prob with ur scard cause of the crackle, but i read u did that on purpose

Haha, damn. I mean, I work A LOT with my sounds. Guess I make the same changes preset makers make...

DJ 2Much: Well, for starters it's a full-blown sequencer, whereas CEP is audio only.

ONE: I can try that (it's a distorted rhodes btw)

Thanks alot folks!

Where R the vinyl crackle's ?!? haha Love the Bassliness! Nice overall quality dawg! peace

loving it. that rhodes is really sick homie! im impressed