Is the mpc 1000 a complete package?

Hi I've been making beats on my computer for a while now as a hobby but I just don't like clicking the mouse and all that jazz and I was thinking about getting the mpc 1000. Here is the way I would like to produce my beats:

I would get all my drum, snare, hi hat samples off records to make the beats. I would also like to sample like jazz and get some melodies and basslines to stick in. I would also like to record my friend playing his guitar and his synth live.

Then I would just edit, filter, and eq everthing in the mpc and sequence it up and theres my song.

Can I do this with the mpc 1000? Can it be an all in one solution?
I know Madlib can make sick a$$ beats with nothing but some vinyl and an sp 303 so I must be able to do all this with an mpc 1000?

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

Yeah, it can do all of that, now go buy it.

Well that sounds good. But first I must study the greats and collect my records. Thank you Lampdog you may just have paved the way for a young beat maker to shine!

You'll be fine, when, you get it, go through the manual and push the same buttons and do the functions that you are reading about, it might become more clear that way. When you try and do something that's NOT in the manual come on back and we can all discuss what's going on cause if you come back and ask how to SAVE, you just MIGHT open yourself up to being clowned on the forums, I'm not saying it will happen but it's a good chance it will and I don't want you to get discouraged, make them beats bang and have fun. holla back..

MPC1K = Da FUCl<IN Sh*t Mayne

boy even i was inspired by that Madlib interview in scratch mag, nice to see heads are being inspired more into getting serious about there choice of equipment etc.

Don't tell the guy it's an all in one solution when it clearly isn't. Particularly for someone new to music tech. It's like saying all you need is a swiss army knife to put up some shelves. Yeah you might get by but there's some other tools that'll do it quicker and better.

The MPC1000 is a great tool that's very good at doing a number of jobs on the journey towards finishing a song, but if you think it can do all of them, infact if you think anything can do all of them, your living in the clouds.

Yes you can finish a song on an MPC, you can finish a song on f'ing kazoo if that's what you want but just, just keep your expectations in check that's all I'm saying.

Nobody has forged an entire career on a single piece of equipment and a single working process it just doesn't work that way.

Yeah buy it, you'll love some things about it, hate others, be surprised by some features and be disappointed at the lack of others. Buy it, enjoy, learn, grow, get something else. Don't tie yourself to any one piece of gear.

Jim.

shootah, yes the 1k can do all that you have asked of it and much more. my main, personal, limitations i run into with it though are range of notes/tones at once(16 levels only allows 16 tones) and a step edit screen with a grid. other than that i'm quite fine with it. other things, for me, are secondary

dont get one your going to chop too fast. sequence too dope and have too many hand orgasms from the pads. werd


get one !!

Don't tell the guy it's an all in one solution when it clearly isn't. Particularly for someone new to music tech. It's like saying all you need is a swiss army knife to put up some shelves. Yeah you might get by but there's some other tools that'll do it quicker and better.

if he's been making beats on the computer first (like i did) i assume he is already familiar with editing programs and pc timestretching, etc. since he has these tools already via software, i would say the 1000 is an all in one solution--so as long as he doesn't leave the computer behind forever. this was the case at least for me. the only other gear i "neeD" is just stuff i dream about having but my music doesn't demand it.

Shootah wrote:Hi I've been making beats on my computer for a while now as a hobby but I just don't like clicking the mouse and all that jazz and I was thinking about getting the mpc 1000. Here is the way I would like to produce my beats:

I would get all my drum, snare, hi hat samples off records to make the beats. I would also like to sample like jazz and get some melodies and basslines to stick in. I would also like to record my friend playing his guitar and his synth live.

Then I would just edit, filter, and eq everthing in the mpc and sequence it up and theres my song.

Can I do this with the mpc 1000? Can it be an all in one solution?
I know Madlib can make sick a$$ beats with nothing but some vinyl and an sp 303 so I must be able to do all this with an mpc 1000?

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

Yo I had to evac for the hurricane and i only have my mpc and i respect the mpc even more it does things i never had to do at home. As yoda would say "a must have the mpc is"

jellyjim wrote:Don't tell the guy it's an all in one solution when it clearly isn't.

Pad, Pen and myself never said it was an all in one
solution, it can do what he stated though.

Aye is it.

Well I'm going to get one as well! Being able to upload to the computer will make it all the better.

Equipment I've had... MPC 2kxl, XP-50, Roland MS-1, & what I have now is Acid 5.0, Fruity Loops, & crates of LP's.

I'm about to start over & use the MPC 1k as a base!

I'm rockin the same thing. A mpc1k(main derivative of creativity), Acid Pro 5(which I luv). lots of vinyl myself, and a few others i like to use occasionaly.