Industrial/Experimental Music and MPC 1000

Hello,

I am just wondering if anyone here uses their 1000 for industrial/experimental/weird sounds. Can the machine be used in this way? It probably sounds a bit stupid given most use it for hip-hop/techno, etc. Anyone at all?, hahaha.

Thanks alot.

all i ever write is industrial and noise, every now and then my flowers side pops out and i write happy synthpop. but ya ur mpc1000 is not limited at all to one genre of music its not limited to any not even idm, its all on how u use it as well as gear u use with it and so on.

do you use the 1000 for this kind of thing alot. I am thinking of getting one especially for this purpose. Thanks alot.

I love the MPC for this purpose, I like to make beats out of radio static and weird short loops. My brother also uses it this way for experimental type stuff.

MPC has been billed as a hip hop machine, but it is a very flexible sequencer and a good percussion sampler, so any music that you see a place for these elements, will be served well by the MPC.

Just don't get it expecting a full fledged sampler, even with OS 2.0 its best used for percussion and loops.

ya i always use my mpc1000 its not only the heart of my setup its my most used peice of equipment sense i bought it. if i were u read the manual before making a desicion. play with the ideas of the do donts that the mpc can perform. i want u to sit down and see the future and the set features this sampler offers. to me its a great box but to so many who bought it cause dr dre owns one ended up selling there box cause of frustration or wasnt what they wanted. please read more about it. or ask me question feel free. were all here to help u decide

Hi there. I'm using my mpc 1k for experimental / noise / glitch / dark ambient - usually atmospheres recorded with my other gear + some wierd soundscapes / loops. Never used it for anything rhythm-driven, actually . Prevoiusly I used an s 6000, which is probably the best sampler ever made, but I find the mpc much more convenient in terms of how intuitive and quick the music-making process is.

a sampler is a sampler.
wierd sounds in = wierd sounds out
it's the only thing i do

yup..its what samples you put in and how you sequece it all....the prophet samples and some dirty drums...........a guitar riff here....a riff there.......then you are ready to rock.

DnB, IDM (and hiphop too) here. What is industrial but tekno with heavy metal guitars (this from an industrial head from way back). It's all about using equipment in ways it wasn't intended. A lot of early hiphop and industrial stuff shared similar production aesthetics because of all the lo-fi sampling and DIY attitude. You'll get a lot more out of the MPC by running it through guitar effects and amps and distorting the output stage on the MPC (or input stage on whatever you run it into)... Not repeat WAY too fast (here's my bellyache about no start point modulation)... Lots of ways to make rude noises with perfectly good machinery.

The MPC1k can be used for this. It's pretty powerful when it comes to sequencing noises, and the root from A-Z is pretty short too.

What do I mean?
Well say you have spent the last 2 hours creating a noise/fx part to add another layer to one of your tracks and now you want to re sequence it and incorporate some glitches. This is where the 1k could come in.

What you'd do is just sample that track into the 1k, do a 'slice sample' and a couple button presses later you'll immediately have that entire track cut up into equal sections ready to be triggered from each pad (16 pads x 4 banks). Using a function called note repeat you can glitch up each of those sections with anything up to 1/32-3 repeats. You can also timestretch, pitch shift and reverse any of the samples on each of those pads you might choose too.

The same can be done for drum loops or anything you throw at it. Like RundFyrkant said, "weird sounds in = weird sounds out".

Does that make sense?
If you'd like an example I'd be happy to provide one.