Support and discussion for all of Akai’s modern standalone MPCs including the MPC X / X SE, MPC Live 1, 2 & 3, MPC One / One+, MPC Key 37/61.
By Caustic Yoda Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:38 pm
Dudes why all this rambling about a emulated summing mixer just get a rel one they have been the go for ever, this thread is biased promo for ua and click bait from the start, even the licensed companies ua make plugins for bag them out and know they are just a marketing gimmick. :vomit:
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By Danoc Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:03 pm
:lol: :lol: you went from Brooklyn to toilet paper lol :lol:
Without writing a book l was there when Hiphop started. Im from Harlem. From Kool Herc at Sdegewick ave to Edenwald, the Bronx river, I was there when it STARTED. so you're not sayung nothing.

Fun? Man I started off fun YOU turned it into something else.

You asking someone else to be YOUR ears is dam near impossible.
Hearing is like finger prints the people you asked will not hear Luna like you. That's why people use different mix engineers.

You don't believe l've tested Luna? Ok cool. I don't belive yiu. The burden is in you cause you made the title not me. So you don't own Luna you allegedly hear it at somewhere. My point was and still say Luna is Just another DAW. Just like S1v4. It has color to don't make better than S1v4 sonically.

Peace

Fre$hBreath wrote:First of all, I'm Originally from East Flatbush which is simultaneously the hip hop and murder capital of Brooklyn, NY, where I come from people get F u c ked up for fronting alone.

You can't tell me sh!t about NYC battle culture, I go all the way back to the legendary DOOR where I witnessed Sir Lord Professor P lyrically destroy Kool Moe Dee, to the legendary Howie Tee's back yard where he and the legendary Professor Paul battled on the turntables at Howie's birthday party cookout, the Vortex where I battled and beat DJ Miz exactly two nights before he became the New Music Seminar world champion, Braggin Writes where this unassuming kid called J-Live blew up long before he made a record, I used to help Ant Marshall and Danny Castro promote Lyricist Lounge where Mr. Man of Da' Bush Babees went at it on stage with Kool Kim of UMC's, I used to be a judge for the monthly DJ battles at the Brooklyn Moon Cafe in Fort Greene, and I used to sometimes DJ for the rap battles at Sincere's Hip Hop Stop next to the YMCA on Flatbush avenue by the Junction, my old rap group won a rap battle at the Empire Roller Rink and then witnessed a dude get his f u c king brains blown out just for accidentally bumping into another dude.

I may live in Seattle today, but I'm still a crazy-ass Crooklyn kid, I know what a battle is.

You didn't want a battle, you only want to be proven right about something I strongly believe you're wrong about.

WE DON'T AGREE.

I enthusiastically posted about LUNA because when I initially tested it, I heard my MPC X the way it should have sounded in a DAW for the very first time. I disagree with anything that does not ring true to me and expressed why several times. Sorry, but I still don't believe you tested it, anyone who says they think Studio One sounds better than LUNA is either fronting, or have very wack ears. I don't think you have wack ears, I listened to your Soundcloud links.

Most of my local production clients are software engineers and work for tech companies and I'm also working on my own projects with whatever little free time I have, speaking into my phone as I'm doing right now at this very moment and then quickly editing whatever words does not take up time like it would to make a bullish!t track for the purpose of entertaining you.

I did, however, asked three YouTubers who I'm friendly with to make such a video and one says they like the idea and considering it.

All you've been doing all along is talk sh!t and rouse up hate.

You totally ignored the fact that I said several times that Studio One has the superior feature set, but LUNA has the superior sound. You ignored where I concluded that even though LUNA sounds better than Studio One, a DAW I've been mixing with for years I'm still going to mix with it.

Why?

Because TIME.

I don't have the TIME to slow down my clients' music projects to deep dive into learning LUNA's automation, especially when there's a state of emergency going on in my city where people are literally getting in line at our local supermarkets to buy toilet paper like it's 1980 USSR and some of my clients are now working from home, giving them more access to me.

it's 5:48 AM where I am right now, after this I got to eat my first meal for the day, take my supplements, workout in my home gym, deal with my hygiene regimen and then put in a few hours to work on a client's mixing project and then after that is done, work on another client's project for a few hours, and then after that, work a little on one of my own projects.

Bump your gums all you want, I stand by everything I said, and I'm completely done with replying to this topic, because you took what was supposed to be a fun post about a dope creative option and turned it into some f u c ish!t for YOUR ego...
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By saltmcgault Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:04 pm
Fre$hBreath wrote:First of all, I'm Originally from East Flatbush which is simultaneously the hip hop and murder capital of Brooklyn, NY, where I come from people get F u c ked up for fronting alone.

You can't tell me sh!t about NYC battle culture, I go all the way back to the legendary DOOR where I witnessed Sir Lord Professor P lyrically destroy Kool Moe Dee, to the legendary Howie Tee's back yard where he and the legendary Professor Paul battled on the turntables at Howie's birthday party cookout, the Vortex where I battled and beat DJ Miz exactly two nights before he became the New Music Seminar world champion, Braggin Writes where this unassuming kid called J-Live blew up long before he made a record, I used to help Ant Marshall and Danny Castro promote Lyricist Lounge where Mr. Man of Da' Bush Babees went at it on stage with Kool Kim of UMC's, I used to be a judge for the monthly DJ battles at the Brooklyn Moon Cafe in Fort Greene, and I used to sometimes DJ for the rap battles at Sincere's Hip Hop Stop next to the YMCA on Flatbush avenue by the Junction, my old rap group won a rap battle at the Empire Roller Rink and then witnessed a dude get his f u c king brains blown out just for accidentally bumping into another dude.

I may live in Seattle today, but I'm still a crazy-ass Crooklyn kid, I know what a battle is.

You didn't want a battle, you only want to be proven right about something I strongly believe you're wrong about.

WE DON'T AGREE.

I enthusiastically posted about LUNA because when I initially tested it, I heard my MPC X the way it should have sounded in a DAW for the very first time. I disagree with anything that does not ring true to me and expressed why several times. Sorry, but I still don't believe you tested it, anyone who says they think Studio One sounds better than LUNA is either fronting, or have very wack ears. I don't think you have wack ears, I listened to your Soundcloud links.

Most of my local production clients are software engineers and work for tech companies and I'm also working on my own projects with whatever little free time I have, speaking into my phone as I'm doing right now at this very moment and then quickly editing whatever words does not take up time like it would to make a bullish!t track for the purpose of entertaining you.

I did, however, asked three YouTubers who I'm friendly with to make such a video and one says they like the idea and considering it.

All you've been doing all along is talk sh!t and rouse up hate.

You totally ignored the fact that I said several times that Studio One has the superior feature set, but LUNA has the superior sound. You ignored where I concluded that even though LUNA sounds better than Studio One, a DAW I've been mixing with for years I'm still going to mix with it.

Why?

Because TIME.

I don't have the TIME to slow down my clients' music projects to deep dive into learning LUNA's automation, especially when there's a state of emergency going on in my city where people are literally getting in line at our local supermarkets to buy toilet paper like it's 1980 USSR and some of my clients are now working from home, giving them more access to me.

it's 5:48 AM where I am right now, after this I got to eat my first meal for the day, take my supplements, workout in my home gym, deal with my hygiene regimen and then put in a few hours to work on a client's mixing project and then after that is done, work on another client's project for a few hours, and then after that, work a little on one of my own projects.

Bump your gums all you want, I stand by everything I said, and I'm completely done with replying to this topic, because you took what was supposed to be a fun post about a dope creative option and turned it into some f u c ish!t for YOUR ego...



Nice novel.
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By richie Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:35 pm
So just to confirm - The best way to hear how the MPC X sounds like is by _NOT_ actually listening to the sounds that come out of the MPC X ?
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By NearTao Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:42 pm
Some people might beg to differ

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BLMMPCXXB--black-lion-audio-mod-for-akai-mpc-by

I still don't get what any of this actually *does* though.
https://www.blacklionaudio.com/store/modifications/akai-mpc-x-mod/
"expect amazing micro-dynamics and space"... wth
By CharlesRandolph Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:12 pm
NearTao wrote:Some people might beg to differ

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BLMMPCXXB--black-lion-audio-mod-for-akai-mpc-by

I still don't get what any of this actually *does* though.
https://www.blacklionaudio.com/store/modifications/akai-mpc-x-mod/
"expect amazing micro-dynamics and space"... wth


It improves the noise floor by decoupling them from the power supply and other components that have noise. It suppose to improved the signal to noise ratio on the machine.

Decoupling: makes the interaction between (electrical components) so weak that there is little transfer of energy between them, especially to remove unwanted AC distortion or oscillations in circuits with a common power supply.
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By Danoc Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:33 pm
:shock: Dam

Black Lion Audio Mod for AKAI MPC X
Write review
Item ID: BLMMPCXXB
$795.00

So instead of spending that type of money there are alternatives into gettung rid if noise floor. Waves has software that does it where you can see it. Do a parametruc EQ sweep, even Audacity does it and its free.
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By NearTao Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:10 pm
CharlesRandolph wrote:
Decoupling: makes the interaction between (electrical components) so weak that there is little transfer of energy between them, especially to remove unwanted AC distortion or oscillations in circuits with a common power supply.


Yeah, I've read all that... but I just haven't noticed any noise floor issues with my X. I'm probably not the target market though. On the other hand I've often been sampling some pretty noisy older gear... maybe it'd help me... but the price is just so dang high... for something that I imagine is less than a 2% improvement.
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By Danoc Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:30 pm
I agree to high.
Let me ask you when you sample, say drums. Are sampling from records with popping noise in it or clean drums? Some producers leave the noise in the samples cuase they want that grit. I have record popping EFX that l put in the track if an artist want that on purpose.

NearTao wrote:
Yeah, I've read all that... but I just haven't noticed any noise floor issues with my X. I'm probably not the target market though. On the other hand I've often been sampling some pretty noisy older gear... maybe it'd help me... but the price is just so dang high... for something that I imagine is less than a 2% improvement.
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By CharlesRandolph Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:32 pm
NearTao wrote:Yeah, I've read all that... but I just haven't noticed any noise floor issues with my X. I'm probably not the target market though. On the other hand I've often been sampling some pretty noisy older gear... maybe it'd help me... but the price is just so dang high... for something that I imagine is less than a 2% improvement.



If you're tracking and physically sample there should be some improvement. However, if you're importing and exporting I really don't see much of a change. As far as the price, if it takes them 10 hours to do it, that's about 80 an hour, plus parts so it's pretty standard. Don't forget the shipping cost.