jahrome wrote:What I like to to is get my drums/samples sounding right before I sample them with an MPC. I use external EQ and filters, analog compression, etc on my drums and then sample them into the MPC. I get much better results than soley using the filters in an MPC.
Antonym wrote:right. gotcha.
i layer all my kicks, all the time...and have never run into this. i always use a deep bassy kick for body and a "skin" of a kick from a record for...well, skin. the skin is low volume, the body is high volume/pitched down. their frequencies never overlap this way, and the result is clean and sounds good. later on, i compress this down. the result is a decently accoustic drum hit that bangs harder than just the original skin would have - and the compression melts everything together nicely. roll off the bottom end, boost it around 160 (before compression, of course) and you're damn near good to go.
if only i was as good at layering snares.
007_xl wrote:Antonym wrote:right. gotcha.
i layer all my kicks, all the time...and have never run into this. i always use a deep bassy kick for body and a "skin" of a kick from a record for...well, skin. the skin is low volume, the body is high volume/pitched down. their frequencies never overlap this way, and the result is clean and sounds good. later on, i compress this down. the result is a decently accoustic drum hit that bangs harder than just the original skin would have - and the compression melts everything together nicely. roll off the bottom end, boost it around 160 (before compression, of course) and you're damn near good to go.
if only i was as good at layering snares.
see thats the thing... the "skin" is the part of the kick over like 200hz. what if i like the skin of one of my samples but the bottom end phucks with the others? thats where simult and seperate filters come in. it sounds like alot of other producers use this too. yeah, i could do some workaround like hitting a bunch of pads at once or going in and manually putting stuff in in step edit, but why? most people like the mpc for the quick workflow, why take features away?
savilion wrote:I emailed akai again about 2 weekago again with my concern about having mult filters for one pad or bring back the simult feature................................still no responce...that s**t really bites donkey balls
jahrome wrote:Yes they will share the same filters when you layer them in the 2500 (as discussed in a recent thread). However, when you are talking about filters in an MPC 2000XL, they are far from remarkable. Evem in the 2500, that are just ok.
I always thought by processing your sounds before you sampled them you addd xtra noise to the overall mix
any chance I could hear a sample
What I like to to is get my drums/samples sounding right before I sample them with an MPC. I use external EQ and filters, analog compression, etc on my drums and then sample them into the MPC. I get much better results than soley using the filters in an MPC.
