Section of a wycleff interview.

I read this and thought it was pretty cool. A guy from Kool and the Gang taught him how to use a drum machine (linn 9000)

Wyclef Jean came of age at an interesting time in technology, when certain key items, such as the drum machine, were poised to become the instruments of urban music, just as the Stratocaster had for rock & roll. "The way I learned was with a single format — a Linn 9000 [sampling drum machine]," he explains. "Kalise Bayon from Kool & The Gang taught me how to use it. It was the fastest way to make music. All you needed was a Linn 9000 and a keyboard. That's where I got my recording style. My cousin Renell bought me and Jerry [Wonda] a little Tascam [multitrack] tape recorder and we started cutting to that with the Linn and an [Ensoniq] VFX keyboard. Than I needed to plug my guitar into something and I just plugged it right into the Tascam, so we were always recording live. What I was learning was to make it happen as quickly as possible and find the sounds we wanted as quickly as possible. That's where I got my recording chops. I'll tell you a secret about 'Killing Me Softly'. I wanted a Fender Rhodes piano on that track but we didn't have one. So I took a sound in an S900 sampler and put a delay on it and detuned the sampler and played it like a Rhodes and it sounds like one. We just had to invent shit as we went along.

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dope pic...

anyway maybe wycleff should go back to a linn 9000 and a keyboard, he hasn't done anything that's impressed me lately

Sumtin bout that Nig I don't like.

Yeah I don't feel him at all, I read an interview in keyboard I think where he talks about the 60 and the 3.10 upgrade, somewhat crypticly, but he was praising the 60. But he was an ass whole the rest of the interview, talkin like he's some sort of genius and no one knows it but him, that I kinda wished he didn't.

I just thought it was cool to have Kool and the gang teach you how to use the first sampling drum machine, and using that and a keyboard and a 4 track to mke music for years, it's a story of the birth of the MPC style, a sampling drum machine sequencing your keyboards. A cool thing about the Linn 9000 is that it has 2 external inputs into the internal mixer, they have two sliders for their volume and you can do mix changes in the 9000 to control the volum and panning or two external keyboards. That's pretty cool, and again, what I keep telling people about the playing well with others design philosophy behind the creation of MPC's. The 60 plays well with others, but not that well (providing mixing for external equipment!!)

i just discovered two days ago that my old emu allows me to sample on it while it stays playing his samples midied by the 60 .I can really multitrack this way ( my instruments are plugged into a very old powered italian mixer , then miced into the emu ) and that changes my life !

That's pretty cool. What old emu is it?

TUtors getting sneaky, using our own words as links to his new joints!

Very nice Tutor!

yeah i noticed that too... that is pretty sneaky

1994 e64 ( half EIV ) .

Very Cool.

Clef is not a good producer at all. He can play a few instruments, but that's about it. He get's over by surrounding himself with talented people and taking all the credit. Just ask any member of the OUTSIDERS how much work they put into "The Score" and how much credit they got.

yeah, I don't doubt it, when he was on chappelle show it was like he was trying to be bob Marley and shyt, all fake jamaican accent and shyt. fukin vampires.

If I liked the guy I would have posted the whole interview. It came up in a google search for Linn 9000, so I took the cool part of the interview.