LIVE MPC

do any of you take your mpc out and play live?

ive got a dj and another mc that i work with, and i take my 2000xl out and do all kinds of crazy shit. dropping beats and chopping up samples all live. ive got a zip full of sample that i use so all the gigs we do are never the same.

I rocked my first gig live with my mpc1k, kaoss pad2, and my laptop running ableton 5. I have a threads with pics in the off topic section. Maybe we can share some ideas, and what not. i'm inexperience to giggin with my mpc live. But i have mc'd shows before.

ive never done it, but im always thinkin of maybe trying it.

Not yet but next year i plan to do it.I hope i can find someone to run the mpc while i emcee because i don't know if i can handle both at the same time.

i def planning on going live with my 1k. i bought it so i wouldn't have to lug my computer around

yo i been workin on something like this with my crew. We're trying to break out of the standard hip hop format by adding a live/jam element to our set. I rock my 4000 on one channel of my dj mixer and a cdj800 (looping jazz breaks or solos and atmosphere sounds, some dub as well) on the other channel. Also running effects through a pioneer efx500. My homie rocks his tt's also equipped with final scratch 2. Throw a roland (or boss?) 505 and laptop w/ mpd16 as the controller in there as well. 2emcees and live drummer/ percussion in the mix.

We rock our songs but also do live remixing w/ freestylin over some of it. Tryin to get or shyt tight for a live set. We've got enough material we're just gettin it locked down

By chance I been thinking about using the MPC live today. I did a funk 45 DJ set on Xmas eve which went down real well. I think it would be ill to do some shit with the MPC live. I agree about the 2 decks and a mixer format is too boring and has been for a while. I want to see fools doing live remixes and jams and shit.

I got a MPC60 Mk2, MPC3000LE and a 2000XL but would probably use the 2KXL live as that would be the easiest and cheapest to replace if anything happened to it. Plus it also reads most of the other 2 MPCs files so thats good too. I got a Rane TTM 56 DJ mixer but I'm weighing up getting an Allen and Heath Xone 02 to use live:



so the Rane don't get bosted but also because the Xone is like a 4 channel mixer with the additonal gain knobs for line inputs. Effectively there is no line switches just a volume knob for the respective line inputs for each channel as you can see on this (much larger) picture:

http://media.zzounds.com/media/brand,zz ... 2a6bcf.jpg

Not too sure how EQ and Panning integrates with it all, will have to research the manual

stryke wrote:I hope i can find someone to run the mpc while i emcee because i don't know if i can handle both at the same time.

it would be a good gimmick if you could do both

the average man wrote:

stryke wrote:I hope i can find someone to run the mpc while i emcee because i don't know if i can handle both at the same time.

it would be a good gimmick if you could do both

i 've seen jel do it..f- in ill

i'd love to see more video of this kinda shit

especially JEL

i rock the 2kxl live (using a stack of sequences to cycle through and the mute screen) alongside 1210s, a kaoss pad kp1 and a circuit bent speak & spell... i'm always into seeing other people use em

i 've seen jel do it..f- in ill

that's because he's better than jesus

That cant be too fun to watch

markjames wrote:chopping up samples all live.

edit:

hahah!

"wait...wait...let me zone this real quick, listen.....listen....wait...THERE! no, wait...let me adjust the...yeah...get that start point right ....THERE!! first zone done! only 15 more to go!"

check out www.jamielidell.com for some crazy live stuff. it's the track in the royal festival hall, third track from the left in the video section.

actually, here you go:

http://www.jamielidell.com/video/rfh.html