MPC500 AND LIVE GIGS

Hello

I'm in a avery active band called The Suicide Dolls. We record the country and easily play 3-4 gigs a month. Our sound is very experimental yet still falls in the rock genre.

I've had it with drummers doing thier own thing or having their heads up their ass.

What I'm thinking of doing is recording drums and overdubs then taking the wav files and adding them to a sampler. Then taking a device like the mpc500 that's small and wouldn't be in the way and sending the left/right to the clubs PA and like sending the phones out put to a speaker cabinet behind me to add extra monitors.

So when I'm playing a live gig I can trigger drum/overbub samplers of like 4 minute songs and play live guitar and bass to the song length samples.

I figure I would get the 2gig memory card. I'm thinking I would break my 45 minute set into like 10 different sequences, trigger different songs as the set moves along.

Do you think the mpc500 would be capible of the task I'm looking to do or should I move up to say the pmc1000?

Thanks guys

Brian

With the RAM upgrade you have 24.5minutes mono to work with. You can't do a 45minute set if each song is a sample; you'd need to break it up into individual drum hits or loops and sequence them, which will sound more robotic.

The MPCs are more drum machine than sampler. The 500 and 1000 don't stream the .wavs off the CF; you have to load them into RAM and they are played from there. You could do long sets if you manually reload new sequences in between.

The Roland SP404 streams off the CF, giving you the ability to have 386minutes mono. It has MIDI in so you can trigger it remote. It's also $140 cheaper.

You could also use a cheap netbook for even less. It has more than enough power and disk space. Just setup your final .wavs in a softsampler and trigger with a MIDI interface, a floorboard would be nice.

yeah I guess I better look into the roalnd you mentioned or going the laptop route. thanks

If you don't have to have samples, you might try the Akai SR20. It can be triggered from a foot pedal, presumably for the same type of environment you're in.

RR

The best thing would be a HDD recorder!

cool I'm glad I can go in a couple of different directions with this