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By Pazuzu Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:27 am
Hello to all!
I'm new to the forum and sampling.
I am trying to find what the right setup is for me and looking all over the net wont give me the right anwers so I thought of asking the experts here.

I intend to make music on the "experimental" side, using drones, field recording sounds and beats - all using a sampler.

On one hand I want to use a good sampler for home & studio production, so I am thinking of getting an APC 40 using Ableton, which is on my budget.

On the other hand I want to use a hardware sampler for live perfomances.
So my question is, is it possible and wise to prepare and produce songs on Ableton
and then transfer to the MPC, say, the basic backing track and rhythm section with some effects and other parts for stage performance,
or should I get an MPC-1000 and do both?

Thanks in advance to anyone putting their time to read, hope someone can help a guy out!
By LZ Roberts Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:40 am
I don't think many ppl are coming back with answers because its a hard question.

Can't you use your ableton live setup and an APC to gig with?

I used to use live but switched to the MPC and for what you are saying about your music Ableton sounds like the way to go. But I switched to the MPC because it puts the physicality back in music, ableton just seemed too cerebral. Also I like using hardware synths and processors rather than plugins.

You could put a backing track programmes into the MPC & and then have a Pad group with a series of one shot samples to wing in live. But those sounds won't be synced up so if your timing is out it won't sound tight. (not on my JJOS at least)

Also the amount of realtime control you have over those samples would be quite limited on the MPC.