Make prof. sounding, puchny kicks drums with your MPC1000

Do you layer drums on the MPC, or on the computer?
If you use a DAW, do you use a sampler plugin, or just put different samples on different tracks and process them individually?
I understand that layering is the key to great sounding drums, but haven't found an efficient workflow yet.

Okay...you know alot more than me, I am ignorant. Okay?

Did anyone download my demo kicks?

I layer sounds on the MPC1000, that's much more "natural" to me. And I can't think of a DAW or any other program, that I would prefer to the MPC.

phazer1980 wrote:Okay...you know alot more than me, I am ignorant. Okay?

Different levels of know-how is natural and necessary on a forum. What however might be a problem is when people make statements and claims which are delivered as the real deal but are based on fundamental misunderstandings of technology or terminology. If these claims lean towards the sensational it's most likely that other newbies will catch on to them and get a real awkward view on things, resulting in confusion and waves of irrelevant questions and posts.

A good example is the notorius "real-time timestretching on the MPC 1000"-youtube video that caused a hell of a lot of boat rocking amongst (mostly, I hope) newbs here a few years ago. All for nothing as what happened in the video had nothing at all to do with timestretching, just some clown who didn't had his language straight.

phazer1980 wrote:Did anyone download my demo kicks?

I just checked em out, 4 and 5 have some serious thump, nice work

is it only in os2XL that oyu can make 1 pad trigger other pads?

JesseHolmz wrote:is it only in os2XL that oyu can make 1 pad trigger other pads?

no. it works on os1. go to program, turn mute group to simult...

The info is useful guys but aren't you getting into the area of 'sound design' rather than pure beat making.

If you are a professional producer I doubt you would have the patience to go through all the steps just to make the building blocks of your beats (I notice that big name producers reuse a lot of their one shots).

I tweak my drum sounds (and sometimes layer) but I like to start with something half way decent rather than turning a very raw sound into the mother of all kicks.

In any case, regardless of how good your sounds are....it won't matter much if the beat/arrangment aren't that interesting. if you spend all your time focusing on making a 1-2 second single shot sample sound good, it can get very scientific and not very musical process.

Just my 2 cents