What actually inspired u to get an MPC?

nice triple post

after seeing the video for classic prod by primo, i wanted a 60

^ lol my fault man, i was posting from my phone and it triple posted on me.

After being software based forever, I ended up buying maschine, and I was like " ahhh this is how it's supposed to be" The only question after that predominant hardware based experience was, MPC or MV, and after debate the MPC made more sense for me.

the sample length on a sp 1200 inspired me to get a mpc. Now I want a sp again...

I'm a fan of hip hop music (real hip hop, not what we hear on the radio today) since more than 10 years. However, i had no idea how the music was made. I've never heard of a machine called MPC in all this time.

About two years ago, a friend of mine bought an MPC500 and showed it to me. I didn't even think about making hip hop beats at this point, but i was hooked. I spent the whole evening on the net searching for the best offer from shops close to my location. The next day i went and bought one!

About three months ago i bought a 2500. I still have the 500 and i love them both. I can't think of my life anymore without them being a part of it!

Hearing People Under the Stairs rhyme about it. Their production style is one of my influences.

Played keys for a long time as a kid but I got Yamaha DJX for Christmas one year just to jam out on. Got a lil older and started reading about these two ports on the back of it... some -ish called MIDI. Started DJ'ing in school and a lot of my homies wanted to rap or make an album but the tracks they were getting from people were super-wack. So I bought a MIDI-to-Serial adapter that came with Cakewalk Express. Had a little fun just getting a few squences looped but things sounded garbage in ole' GENERAL MIDI. (Sounded like some 8-bit Nintendo garbage.)

Fast forward about 4 years...

New to the big city and fresh outta high school, got a gig DJ'ing for a Strip Joint...(Don't ask crazy -ish went down for ME to get that gig!) One of the other DJ's and I became buddies. Big Homie said he had a studio... "Sure" I say, "I play keys a little, so let's get it in!" Get to his spot and he had a brand new MPC2000XL and a proteus 2000! Problem was he knew nothing about this MIDI -ish. We grabbed a couple MIDI cords from some other katz in the same building and I hooked us up!!!

This was it. The sound I was looking for. Tight, Loud, could sample any beat. COUNT ME IN!!!

I run off trying to find one... $1200! Nicca Please!!! Not this week...or the next...or the next...

Had a guy that owed me some serious cash for a couple of dirty deeds... He had what he called this "Music Box" to give me until he came up with my dough but it was broken. I had been do an ASSLOAD of reading up on my equipment game so I tell him to bring it to me. Dude had a MP-7! Only thing wrong was the volume pot need to be tightened up a little. I'll take it plus $200 bucks.

Still can't sample yet... Saved up a lil dough and found a MPC2000 for a little over $600. But I hated it... I was used to that ASR X kind of sequencing. Big homie calls me and we end up swapping for a minute.

End up selling the 2000 to pay some bills...

MPC-less for 2+ years I say to myself let's try it again... Copped a 4k so I can go all out!

Been really into music scene just as fan since early 90's. Went to the Army finished that got out. Got a job. Joined a band. I sang couldn't play a lick but we played a lot of gigs and cut a few CDs. Band broke up went to recording school. Great timing met about a ton of contacts. Skee-LO was there for a minute taking a few classes in music business. Others were doing the same many are still in the scene be it rap, indie, electronic and etc. Best decision I made to take those classes learned alot. One thing I learned was the power of the sampler.

Move ahead 2 years...

Tired of standing on the sidelines watching my friends band do well. I decided to save up some money build myself a studio and start my own thing. I got a Adat, Mackie Mixer, effects, MC-303 and Roland SP Groove Sampler. I rented mics made a few tracks passed them along to a friend at work. He was into underground back pack indie type hip-hop back then. He said I had great ideas but I needed some real equipment. He brought me to the house hit the lab with his MPC3K and he constructed a beat before my very eyes. I actually added that beat to a demo I put out. The demo was rocked on college radio especially my friends track several times. Another friend from work had a home studio was switching to a pure ProTools setup and decided to sell his MPC2K Classic fully loaded for a grand. I bought it in 5 payments I have had it ever since.

Since then I have sold my studio, been to war, got married, and finished college but I still have my MPC2K classic.. Currently, it runs my NEW studio setup which is mostly all hardware. Sure I use GarageBand cos its free. But I also added an MPC60II standard maxed out. I am finally learning piano... Heading back to the game.

Ultimately, the Akai MPC leveled the playing field for me and turned my ideas into pro tracks.

I tryed some things with software but I couldn't get comfortable with it. I also couldn't make it sound how I wanted it to sound when I started making beats.
Then I came across an article about Premier still using his s950 and mpc 60, in which he says he likes to turn off the t.c. sometimes to create that extra bounce. That's when I was like 'I need to find out more stuff about this machine'. After I found out who used the mpc and that it was perfect if u want to have everything in one box I decided to buy one.
Never looked back.

I grew up on Roland samplers because they were affordable. But whenever I looked into the Upstairs Records catalog I saw the MPC2000 in its own page and thought "Man, thats gotta be the cadillac of samplers". I didn't know who used what, all I knew that for that price at the time its has to be a professional piece of gear. Well, I was young at the time and couldn't make ends meet with the minimum wage job I had, so I never got to buy it. And when the MPC2000XL came out I was even more stoked to get it but I never had the cash, they were like 1,500 dollars at the time.

My chance at an MPC was when the MPC500 first came out. The price was right for my budget and I can finally get a feel of how these machines work and plus I felt with the evolution of technology, the 500 had an advantage over the 2000XL.

It wasn't until I've read magazines like Scratch (RIP) that I found out which producers used what.

i started out looping shit on garage band on a mac that wasnt mine, then searched for a loop program that worked on pc cause i had one and decided on using acid 5 in my sophmore year of highschool. at this time i thought everyone made beats with loops pretty much, and was dabbling here and there with my own little loops i would find from cds and stuff, but not really chopping alot.

then i started to figure out more of what a sampler was so i got a sp-404, but it didnt fit my workflow too well, so i sold that and bought an mpc 500, becuase i could just load samples strait onto it from usb, my main gripe about the 404 was that i couldent just import samples to it via usb like the mpc could. so i learned the magic of soundforge audio studio that came with my acid pro software and started choppin beats on it and importing them to my 500.

then copped a mac sometime later and intigrated it with my mpc setup with logic, and now i find myself using logic stand alone alot more than my mpc with it becuase im traveling a lot and dont want to hook up my interface all the time.

but all in all, thats how i got my mpc, havnet used itmuch for the last year though. i picked it up a couple weeks ago to try and make a full beat on it, but couldent get around the workflow beucause i have it mastered on logic now; so im thinkin about sellin it maybe and getting an mpd (but i used to hate controllers, so well see) i might just keep my mp for messin around on from time to time, but i really wana get something that can make my samples 12 bit also, not just some digital emulation of that.

thats pretty much the story though, i like the convince of logic and choppin stufff up in there, but i miss banging on pads, so well see where it goes in the near future.

all in all, glad i got an mpc though. works wonders over the 404 for me anyway, but my workflow is so solid in logic standalone now, i just want to beat some pads without having to hook up an interface, but i cant stop thinking of how much i hated midi controllers a few years ago. thats another reason i got an mp. maybe it will work for me better now, i gotta demo one out.

then i could sell my mp and get some room acoustics goin on, that would be super dope, cause thats what i really wana do now is treat my room.

i just figured i would have more control of my music if i had an actual machine sitting in front of me. I still use software. there isnt anything wrong with it, but i prefer physical machines to work on.

I used to be in a band when I was 18, fell out of it when I was 20 because of personal issues with other band members. I picked up the idea to rap to fill in that blank in my life (I used to play bass), simply because I love music and making it. Well going from a Screamo/Metalcore band transition to being a Rapper/Hip-Hop Artist wasn't easy and isn't easy. Still, I keep learning something new everyday. During my freestyle sessions I realized I had potential but didn't have my own beats and knew I would go nowhere without the music so I decided to start using FL Studio. I want to be independent in the sense of whatever you hear from me is actually made by me, not a group of people I affiliate with.

I figured everything out in FL Studio, and bought an MPD16 and a 25-Key MIDI keyboard eventually. Made even sicker beats but my keyboard broke because I left a huge book on it overnight and messed up a lot of keys. I went to the store eventually and picked up a MPD32, was unhappy with it because I thought it was going to help me make better music, well it didn't. It sucked just as much as assigning pads in FPC in FL Studio. Using FPC in FL Studio I did some research and found out it was a software replica of MPCs. I found out what an MPC was and was curious about it and later realized (All I Need Is An MPC And I'm Set!) being that it's a Sampler/Sequencer, same thing as a DAW but more a challenge to master as it has some restrictions which you can learn how to bypass with practice, I decided over that course of the night playing around with my MPD32 that I was going to get an MPC500 to start with. It was more than double the price but well worth it in comparison to an MPD32 (Duh); returned the MPD32 for a MPC500.

Let me tell you, it's much easier keeping up with samples & music files with an MPC500, plus, using DAWs is really annoying when making music simply because you have to click around 20 places with a mouse and I was getting real irritated of this over the years because it would make me lose a rhythm in my head a lot and if you go back and forth a lot in FL Studio or most DAWs you can't really reset back to a point where you didn't save the file for it and you completely ruined a nice beat just for trying to expand on it (Kind of like recording over a track on the MPC by accident); at least with an MPC you don't ever really lose a rhythm, and you respect the samples a lot more as it's not like you can't just repeat the same drumming patterns again in case you did record over a track. Other than that if you accidentally deleted your samples folder you could have lost an entire project file in FL Studio (Has happened to me before and it was horrible, but whatever I've moved on to greater things since then)...

I grew up listening to Hip-Hop as a child, since I was 8. Later on, when I was 12 I dwelled in the rock/punk/hardcore/metal scenes [in that order] as a teenager, as Hip-Hop started degrading and bands were making better music, at least lyrically. I still listened to indie rappers like Atmosphere and Eyedea for example (I'm not trying to drop a lot of names here). Smoked a lot of weed, did a lot of drugs, learned a lot about music and it's culture from it's inner-core.

After I bought an MPC I slowly stopped doing drugs; as you learn this great machine you realize a person needs more discipline in their life to get where they want to go in the world.

It's real easy to get high and mess around with DAWs, but on a MPC, you really got to know what you're doing. I'm not discrediting anyone who smokes pot during their performance sessions as I've made some awesome beats while intoxicated, but really, you don't need to get high to make better music. I get high off of making the music now.

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its a hard question for me, i have to think when i knew of samplers... maybe 82 1983 was that just after Buffulo girls go round the outside or something else. I realized that there was a thing called a sampler and i loved the idea. then i was going to gigs round 1990 91 and saw them used live. 92 got hands on with a emu then later a emu rack my mate had was awsome. by this time everyone knows about samplers. i buy a few cheap ones and still need sequencer so knew i needed mpc as i had seen it used live. cant remember who it was though, dont think it was De La Soul, maybe some tekno act. My mate confirms it is a good choice so look round for one and realise its fair bit of cash in the only 2 shops in a 1000km that sell it. hmmmm....do djing instead....scratch shit up but know i need good sampler. so i get akai s1000, sp303 and the newr sp303, sp 505 and a heap of drum machines. still need sequencer though. finally got 500 realised it didnt do eoughfor me so sold it then got 1000bk recently. Now sorted. Everything i have been hearing in the last 30 years or so I can pretty much do now.

...Always loved music, always loved musical equipment.
...Grandma gave me her organ
...Made extended versions of pop songs with a double tape deck.
...Bought a simple Keyboard, listened to Depeche Mode and stuff like that and learned alot from it.
...Been in love with sequencers since the days of Atari Cubase 2.0.
...Then bought the 3.1 cause the cracked version always gave me the effin bombs on the screen.
...Had some drummachines and an emu e64 and some other stuff.
...Time went on and PCs and soundcards came up.
...It was easier and faster recording a drumset with 8 tracks on a PC with Cubase SX1 than it was with the Atari Falcon + 8In Interface + ....I forget the name of the Falcon DAW...
...Tried all sampler PlugIns on the marked and got frustrated with them cause they couldn't do the things the emu sampler can
...Found software that wasn't to bad (CoolEdit, FL Studio, shortcircuit) but.....
...Still was frustrated with mouseclicking and....
...the endless opportunities software prevent me from keeping focus on the important things in music
...switched back to hardware with an Atari 1040 and a Casio FZ1....
...making music is fun again
...saw Damu on youtube and was surprized about the sound cause I always thought MPC2000 = way to clean sound
...replaced the Atari with the 2000.

peace