MPC 1K vs. Laptop, GURU/BATTERY/REASON and KORG PADKONTROL

whats the advantages of getting a 1k over a laptop and midi setup with a pad controller and a mix of these 3 programs?

Jesusgetstheglory777333 wrote:whats the advantages of getting a 1k over a laptop and midi setup with a pad controller and a mix of these 3 programs?

they are both used for different reasons,

MPC for sample based from records

and your funny keybored and software to make syth beats.

exactly and thas how i use it ^^^^

You can do exactly the same with both. I find reason takes me half the time to make the same beat. You just need to mess with the swing in reason or your drums will never compare. I don't know about pad controllers though. I've messed with my mpc in reason and don't really like it that much.

solah wrote:they are both used for different reasons,
MPC for sample based from records
and your funny keybored and software to make syth beats.

You can make sampled beats with a laptop or mpc.

Synth style would be better off made with the laptop
and midi keyboard. You can do them on the mpc but
it would take some work and getting used to.

Jesusgetstheglory777333 wrote:whats the advantages of getting a 1k over a laptop and midi setup with a pad controller and a mix of these 3 programs?

one box vs. more than one box

less chance of crashing / slowdown? (I don't know haow much this happens on pc's nowadays)

quicker to sample

do more with samples

less distraction

Skagarax wrote:do more with samples

Get some nice Native Instruments or state of the art audio editor software and you´ll go way beyond any MPC in sample editing/processing/alterations added to that a much cleaner sounding result.
The MPC´s are rather underdeveloped in this area compared to both other hardware and software samplers.

i would add intakt by native instruments and live 5 to the mix and you will have a very nice setup.

workflow of a user who knows his mpc is more clean than a moderately skilled reason user.

in the end you can do the same thing, but i'd prefer mpc due to the fact that you can use it with reason and get the best of both worlds

plus reason's sampling is a pain

plus mpc has better timing/midi out
plus mpc doesn't rely on softsynths which take a lot of processing to make them sound less plastic.

i love reason too though, for sure. one of the best sound modules out there.

Reason is dope. But you'll have a tendency to overcomplicate things sometimes.

i like how my MPC keeps me humble and it keeps me more focused on getting the sounds that i sampled souding really good instead of wanting to mess with a million other sounds.

i wish i had a working PC right now.

i will always adamantly support the statement that you can make better drums on the mpc than on any pc system...don't ask me why this is, because i don't know. my drums were good before i moved to the mpc, but after...they became holy.

Reason is good for synth stuff - but the drum module (Redrum) is nothing compared to an MPC. I had a 2000xl about two years ago and when I got Reason I sold it, thinking it was now redundant. (Reason was king in my eyes in those days)

About 3 months after using Reason alone I seriously missed having an MPC, so then bought a 1000 to replace my old 2000xl.

Now its a "best of both worlds" scenario - but I'm surprised how much of my finished peices are mostly made up (or messed with) entirely on my MPC, Sampling any synth/bass parts I make in Reason and then importing into MPC for chopping and such like.

All in all I think it depends on your workflow and what suits you best, but an MPC is a useful and welcome part of any studio I think.

Right now i'm using the MPC with Reason and a G-Medi phatboy Midi controller - and all mixed down to a Yamaha 01v digital Mixer. - Took me a while to find the best setup that works for me - But it really works!!

I still like using Recycle! ythough too from time to time (although with the new chopping facility it has taken a bit of a back seat)

What is going on is I'm going to be able to buy a pretty nice pc, and go software or outboard and I'm trying to figure it out.

I'm thinking about the emu 1820m breakoutbox it has phono input for sampling straight from records. I got 2 garbage technics sl-b2 and dd5 or whatever the old 70's direct drive's that just survive anything, but really aren't scratch friendly with 2 shure mm-57 needles and a garbage numark 2002x dm mixer which has crossfaders that wear out every 6 months on hard scratching, but i found a site that sells new faders so i ordered 2 and am going to wear one out then put a new one in and sell the whole thing with a bunch of records and redo my turntable and mixer setup.

For sampling the only thing I have used is an akai s-20, it gave me a feel for looping but i got it in like 1998 or something and it just feels worthless after using a computer.

I have my own drumset, marshall stack guitar amp, an ok bass amp, and a lot of very worn out gear, but some ok mics.

I'm kind of going for a digital recording studio type thing where I can play my own stuff and sample and tweak it and then make beats out of it.

One thing that I would see in an advantage with the 1000 is I can get some preamps, compressors, etc. and use the multiple outs to get a really fat sound going direct into the computer and use that as a basis for my tracks. Now I don't own one, the only time I got to mess with one was at guitar world, and the kid couldn't even work the machine and I was totally unimpressed and he was like want to buy one? I was like gosh you made that thing look like a piece of junk and now your asking that?

Well I haven't given up on it after hearing what the new OS can do and some things, but really with the 1820m, emulator x software and a pad controller cant you cut and paste vinyl cuts exactly the same?

2g's

the THING about the mpc is when u load your samples on the pads.......and flip¡¡¡
i was sampling from records before i got my mpc, but it's another way of playing those samples.............enjoying the mpc a lot¡¡
although i wouldn't let my laptop away........it's a great joint.

peace