What actually inspired u to get an MPC?

DILLA....

Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat

I listened to everyone else who stated that I needed on to make better beats. Im right back at FL Studio now, killin 'em again while the MPC 2000XL and Akai S900 collect dust!

I started using gear with an esx-1 by korg. I eventually got a qy700 and an akai s5000. I thought a mpc would be a helpful addition for more expressive dynamic drum sections, but I didn't realize how musical it would really end up being by itself, and also alot funner to use than the qy/s5000 combo. I think actually seeing an MPC 2000 xl being sold locally in a music store was what really sealed the deal. I took it home and tried it out. Returned it... eventually went back and bought it.

i've seen a Cypress Hill live show with dj Muggs at the mpc2000 in 2004 and i get mad!

for real, i've always loved electronic music, hip hop, hard rock and funk

Now that I think about it, I saw a few Producers using MPCs or SP1200/12, but I always wanted to rock a sampler that no one had and different from the rest. But the market gotten so small now, that everyone and their mother got an MPC. I remember back in the day when big and small companies were manufacturing samplers like candy. There was a sampler for each class from simple sampling and trimming to the complicated tanks and racks for pros.
The most obscure sampler I remember was from a company called Next and that was like a poor man's SP202 and they were cheap like $200. Ah the good 'ol days

MegaTON wrote:what was it that made u want to get one?
why not download free software?
why not get a cheaper sampler?

for me it was because all my favorite producers had one and i wanted to be able to do what they could do i used flstudio for 5 years before realizing that i needed more - the effects in flstudio are much easier to use etc but i love the mpc way more - finally getting used to my style after about 4 years on it

Well for me I started doing music in 94, I bought a Dr-5 drum machine and you had to get nice on that because the sequencer was garbage and it made me learn how to make drum patterns on time. What got me was the look of the MPC and when I was looking at MPC's I saw the MPC2000. I only knew about the MPC 60 and wasn't getting that and the SP1200 and I hated that machine. The specs blew me away so I got it. The sequencer was the best in the world! It was mad easier than my Dr 5 then I moved on to the MPC2000xl and I still have that same one from like 2001, love that machine. The sequencer and the pads are like the best that's why I love that machine. People are trying their best to get rid of them due to all this software but there's nothing like banging out your own joints than to let some computer do it for you. MPC for life!

well... i start buying records in the mid 80s when i was in high school (mostly hard rock, metal, punk rock, psychedelic rock and some hip hop like "the light" by Afrika Bambaataa and family)
in 92 i started to play bass guitar with some bands, then in 96 i start to deejay (mostly electronic stuff)
in 99 i started to organize rave parties with some friends and i started to make beats on my pc; then in 2004 i buy a vestax mixer and a pair of technics 1210 and i discovered (in "the new beats" a book by S.H. Fernando jr.) that the legendary hip hop producers (and many others) of the 80s and 90s make their beats with the sp1200
in the same year i discovered Madlib, Dilla, MF Doom and many other underground hip hop artists that definitely inspired me
in 2007 i eventually find a good sp1200 and buy it, and begun to use it every day to make some beats for scratching.
in 2009 i copped a s950 in good conditions (maxed out), then this year in january i found a cheap mpc2000 that is really good for sequencing all the other instruments via midi.
but my favourite sampler remains the sp1200 because it's really easy to use and has a really strange and hard sound.

because the sp-404 didnt have a usb connection and my card reader for it didnt work with my computer.

i also wanted something with more than just 3 numbers on the screen. i was stoked that the 500 had 2 lines of text lol.

1. great music i grow up listening to
2. hands on, on mpc more body parts involved in making stuff, grooving.
3. timming
4. No computer and many other things to dick around with
5. being independent.

use what you have


mpc500

was recording samples into audacity and cutting them up to load into the fl mpc, using my controller to make a beat. My computer was getting slow and an mpc did what i wanted so i chose it over a new computer!

The first beat I made was on a cracked version of Acid Pro 4.


I looked for like 6 months for a turntable.... lived in a small college town... finally found one.

It was probably the most creative I ever felt... even just on the computer.


Within a year, (I had just started getting into underground hip hop a bunch) I bought my ASR 10.... mostly because of listening to The Grouch, Eligh, Blockhead, etc etc... and i KNEW that was the SOUND I wanted to make.

It took me almost a year to even learn the basics on it (didn't RTFM)... and I still sucked on the sequencer. After realizing the limitations of the ASR sequencer (about a year later), I spent some more College loan money on a 2000XL...

After about 6 months on that, I met my buddy Phen (jivin scientists) and he showed me every trick in the book on the XL... never looked back.

Since then, I have kinda gone off the MPC deep end

Gear finds me now.

When I was real young my dad was a DJ. My mom was in the marching band. I grew up listing to Queen, The stones, Beatles, Funk....I always had a pasion for music. I bought a drumset when I was 12, played that for a while. Durring that time ( around 1992) one of my neighborhood friends brothers started rapping. My friend wasn't into music but another one of his brothers was into making music. I remember going over to his house and seeing a box with 16 big buttons on it and wondering what it was. His brother told me that's what he uses to make his beats. ( It was an MPC 3000 ) After that
my friends older brother and I would talk about producers and their beats.

(Now years later)

I just started about a year ago saving up for my own sampler. I'm slowly learning and reading the manual for my 5000. Now all my records can be put to use. My wife and I are trying to buy a home so a home lab is in the works.

Dan L wrote:I just started about a year ago saving up for my own sampler. I'm slowly learning and reading the manual for my 5000. Now all my records can be put to use. My wife and I are trying to buy a home so a home lab is in the works.

Now that's real cool best of blessings on that.

Danoc wrote:

Dan L wrote:I just started about a year ago saving up for my own sampler. I'm slowly learning and reading the manual for my 5000. Now all my records can be put to use. My wife and I are trying to buy a home so a home lab is in the works.

Now that's real cool best of blessings on that.

Thanks man

My wife will hate it for a while. My plan is to buy her a new Hand bag every now and then to keep her happy. My ultimate goal is to have a fully funtional studio. Then I can start producing and put out my own compilation album with work for hire rappers.Then all the money is MY MONEY!