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By justinfrom19153 Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:00 pm
When I first got into music production, I was using MTV Music Generator (a video game, but everybody starts somewhere) for making songs and stuff. When I got into high school, I remember downloading the Fruity Loops demos and doing stuff on there. In college, I bought Reason 4 (people say that Reason is better than Fruity Loops) for music production, as I want to become a producer when I grow up. However, I've ran into some small peeves when using software. I always drummed things out on a table; so the process of placing my beatboxing onto software was always a tedious task...

That's until I bought the MPC 1000. You probably remember a thead on here talking about my MPC freezing during start up (by the way, I fixed it myself; motherboard was fried). Since then, I've added 128MB RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and I have numerous (amounting in thousands) drum sounds in my MPC 1000. I've discovered that I'm a "hands on" type of guy, and the mouse was just holding me back from actually utilizing my hands.

Basically, there's a huge transition from clicking sounds to actually "beating" into pads. Now, does anybody favor the MPC's over the software that's out there today. I know that coupled with software, the MPC's can be a deadly adversary, but if you had to really choose, would it be software or hardware???
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By inflict3 Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:08 am
hahahaha, the whole neighborhood can hear me when i lose a project
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By inflict3 Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:27 am
Ruslanio wrote:
inflict3 wrote:hahahaha, the whole neighborhood can hear me when i lose a project


hahahah thats funny


yea, it is kinda funny, but i think my neighbors are tired of it now, i live in a apartment, the other day i flipped about something with the computer and started my yelling, i glanced out the window during my yelling spree and there was a group of people looking up at my window concerned :oops:
By justinfrom19153 Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:29 am
inflict3 wrote:
Ruslanio wrote:
inflict3 wrote:hahahaha, the whole neighborhood can hear me when i lose a project


hahahah thats funny


yea, it is kinda funny, but i think my neighbors are tired of it now, i live in a apartment, the other day i flipped about something with the computer and started my yelling, i glanced out the window during my yelling spree and there was a group of people looking up at my window concerned :oops:



You've must of been working on a Detox beat to be upset like that...
By justinfrom19153 Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:31 am
Ruslanio wrote:I used FL Studio (with an MPD 24 controller) before, and just recently bought the MPC 2500. I love the mp. When I forget to save, or loose my project, I just never really get mad. It's always fun to just redo it again, because it's so hands on.




Yeah, I love the MPC 1000; thinking about getting a MPC 2500 when I get finished mastering my skills on this one I got now...
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By 64hz Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:04 pm
I think it depens on what ever you feel comfortable. I used to live with this guy in the Netherlands who produced beats on a cracked version of reason, he brought out record after record and they all sounded dope....
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By Ruslanio Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:11 pm
justinfrom19153 wrote:
Ruslanio wrote:I used FL Studio (with an MPD 24 controller) before, and just recently bought the MPC 2500. I love the mp. When I forget to save, or loose my project, I just never really get mad. It's always fun to just redo it again, because it's so hands on.




Yeah, I love the MPC 1000; thinking about getting a MPC 2500 when I get finished mastering my skills on this one I got now...


There's really nothing new you can master on the 2500 if you already have the 1000. You should stay with the 1000 and get some more hardware :)
By justinfrom19153 Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:44 pm
Ill-Green wrote:
justinfrom19153 wrote:
Ill-Green wrote:I think OP is a bot.



Thank almighty God nobody trusts your judgement on these threads... LOL


Didn't mean it intentionally, but spam-bots are posing as users lately. Good to see you're human :? jerk.



I wouldn't think it would happen, but what would a bot actually say on here?!?

"Dude, I found some busty babes at XXX.com!!! You can stroke yourself and make a beat in no time!"