please lord help me im falling down the stairs!!!!!!!!

i need soooo much help. #1 im sorry for my punctuation handicap. no need to point it out i already know. im working on it #2 thank you ahead of time for even skimming through this mess. #3 most importantly i desperately need help im very new dont know shit got tons of love for music dont know shit. i have a akai live 2bought it 2nd hand. when i got it the people hem hawd about the license transfer to the point im subscribing some stuff through air. i have the mpc software on my pc good its great. the machine on the other hand is a kerfuffle to the 10th power. theres a ton of shit on my pc that my live dont ever recieve or even when hooked up to the pc it dont even acknowledge then. i cant save anything on the internal harddrive it says read only. beyond frustrating. my usb ssd is a huge mess but its the only thing i can pull any sounds from in standalone............. please help me. listen i believe deep in the lord and karma all that it will come back to you ten fold i promise i got jesus backing me.

I guess the MPC is not one of your mayor problems.

MPC internal drive cannot be accessed in controller mode, only your attached drives (SSD, SD card, USB). Copy all your content to your USB SSD.

If you "dont know shit about music" - start simple. Don't worry about plugins. Don't try to connect to your PC. Get the basics nailed down. Get the MPC BIble and go through every tutorial.

And plan to make a lot of crappy music before you make anything good. That's how you get good.

Lampdog wrote:

jamos wrote:And plan to make a lot of crappy music before you make anything good. That's how you get good.

This should be on a t-shirt.

Didn't I mention like a month ago there needs to be clothing like based on quotes from members posts. You said something like: "I'm on X...the MPC, not the drug... =$$$$

Lampdog wrote:

jamos wrote:And plan to make a lot of crappy music before you make anything good. That's how you get good.

This should be on a t-shirt.

33 or so years in, I still throw away probably 10 tracks for every one that MIGHT be worthy of releasing haha.

kobabeans wrote:listen i believe deep in the lord and karma all that it will come back to you ten fold i promise i got jesus backing me.

Just a heads up - the concept of "karma" is rooted in Hinduism (or what you Christians like to call "pagans") though it also was prevalent in Buddhism, Jainism, and other Indian religions.

That aside, sounds like you have some growing pains to get through with your Live 2. Hopefully you'll get sorted.

All of the above.

But: first, yes, especially get the MPC bible and do every single tutorial in there. Then do it again, but change something in every single tutorial so that you start to learn to make the ideas your own and find out what not to do.

Having said that, if you don't like to learn that way, find a producer who uses the MPC family in your neck of the woods, find out what bribes they like (beer, weed, pizza, blowjobs...) and provide an ample supply of those bribes in return for walking you through stuff.

Also, it might not hurt to just go to youtube and obsessively absorb lots of producer/composer type channels until some of the concepts sink in a little. Adam Neely is a good place to start, and the recommendation algorithm will get you a bunch more. Keep a wikipedia tab open next to the youtube, and you will learn more in a week of coffee and bandwidth than most people learn in their whole lives.