By Lo Pass Filter
Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:47 pm
Elm - I prefer the limitations of the EPS over the ASR.. I also prefer the sound of the EPS16. It's quite a bit darker, and punchier. It's like the ASR is an MPC 3000, and the EPS16 is an MPC 60 (sort of a weak comparison, but you get what i'm saying..)
LMAO at the seqeuncer love comment. Made me think of this Roy Ayers joint from like 83/84 called "Computer love". He gets on this sexy synth track, real chill drums, and he's like, "Baby.. your sweet 40MB HD, your incondesant glow". Now back to reality.. The sequencer to me, is the best sequencer i've ever used. Period. I've used every sampler i'd ever want to use, and the EPS to me, takes the crown. Because you play in a "non-quant" mode first (realtime), you hardly have a need for step editing events. I basically play the drums over the sample how I'd want them to be placed. My timeing is very good, so it's basically locked up the first go around, but if I slipped, all I have to do is execute the quant function (and what ever value of quant time I see fit) and it locks my event or events up, just enough to sound locked, but not robotic. Plus haveing banging bandpass filters, fx, etc. It just sets me off. Tempratures rising off the Infamous LP is one of my all time favorite cuts. The drums in the beginning of that track are stupid crisp. And now I know why. The EPS16+.
What always fu*ked me up is that, almost every other EPS user (Rza, El-P, PBW) has weak drums for the most part . Like they all got cuts here and there that bang (were talking drums, not music), but none of those cats I mentioned have really been noted as top drum programmers. Then I'd check Havoc out on the early Mobb Deep sh*t, and it' blow my mind. Like, "How the fu*k his drums get so crisp!? He gotta use an SP with it". Plus Tip produced a few cuts on there so I figured they were prolly sharing equipment. But na man, Hav just knows how to flip the EPS. No SP, no nothing. Now i've only been using the machine for 3 days. And i've already caught on to the secret formula. Give me 6 months, and it's a wrap! Like I said, i'm dumping all my other samplers. This is the "mother ship" for me at this point.
Check the MySpace again Elm. I up'd yet another new version of Massive Attack. BTW. The crew Massive Attack rocked the EPS16 hard for a long while now too. I actually no a cat selling the old Audix console they used to cut they're first commerical album (it's basically a knock off Neve Broadcast console). He's looking for $3,500-5G's.
LMAO at the seqeuncer love comment. Made me think of this Roy Ayers joint from like 83/84 called "Computer love". He gets on this sexy synth track, real chill drums, and he's like, "Baby.. your sweet 40MB HD, your incondesant glow". Now back to reality.. The sequencer to me, is the best sequencer i've ever used. Period. I've used every sampler i'd ever want to use, and the EPS to me, takes the crown. Because you play in a "non-quant" mode first (realtime), you hardly have a need for step editing events. I basically play the drums over the sample how I'd want them to be placed. My timeing is very good, so it's basically locked up the first go around, but if I slipped, all I have to do is execute the quant function (and what ever value of quant time I see fit) and it locks my event or events up, just enough to sound locked, but not robotic. Plus haveing banging bandpass filters, fx, etc. It just sets me off. Tempratures rising off the Infamous LP is one of my all time favorite cuts. The drums in the beginning of that track are stupid crisp. And now I know why. The EPS16+.
What always fu*ked me up is that, almost every other EPS user (Rza, El-P, PBW) has weak drums for the most part . Like they all got cuts here and there that bang (were talking drums, not music), but none of those cats I mentioned have really been noted as top drum programmers. Then I'd check Havoc out on the early Mobb Deep sh*t, and it' blow my mind. Like, "How the fu*k his drums get so crisp!? He gotta use an SP with it". Plus Tip produced a few cuts on there so I figured they were prolly sharing equipment. But na man, Hav just knows how to flip the EPS. No SP, no nothing. Now i've only been using the machine for 3 days. And i've already caught on to the secret formula. Give me 6 months, and it's a wrap! Like I said, i'm dumping all my other samplers. This is the "mother ship" for me at this point.
Check the MySpace again Elm. I up'd yet another new version of Massive Attack. BTW. The crew Massive Attack rocked the EPS16 hard for a long while now too. I actually no a cat selling the old Audix console they used to cut they're first commerical album (it's basically a knock off Neve Broadcast console). He's looking for $3,500-5G's.
You can get it to work and get used to it, but I know guys who use the ASR sequencer only and have been for years and they still complain about it, even though they got no MP or anything other to sequence with.
