how do you do it?

average wrote:

Wil wrote:Maybe I do have a lot to learn but this seems more logical to me. First I bang out the track on the MPC. When It is done I open up logic. Next I set the tempo in logic to what the tempo is on the MPC. Then using midi timecode I record each individual sound from the MPC into logic. So if I have a 4 bar beat I record for 4 bars in logic until each sound is on a individual track. Then Once I am done I have a 4 bar 10 -12 tracks worth of audio all from the MPC lined up perferctly. Now all I have to do is copy my four bar beat to make it fit the lenght of the desired song. Along the way I can now drop the snare when ever I want and apply effects and eqs to any track and mix to perfection. Not to mention I still got about 25 tracks still left to play with for vocals. This process is what most people do. It really opens your project up and makes it sound professional and full. I guess you could recored all of your audio on one track and then vocals on another but if you want that sound that you hear on the radio and in the club this is where you should start. You tell me what makes sense.

this is pretty much exactly what I do. I just use protools and smpte. I think people may have misunderstood him. It's a good technique and it's the way I've seen it done the majority of the time in most studios. Not to say it's the only way, it's just good advice.

I also work this way, I'm pretty sure there was just some confusion in all of this. I do ALL the sequencing in the MPC and record everything into PT on seperate tracks, then I bring in the mc or singer and track the vocals.

descartes wrote:

Cheech wrote:

Lampdog wrote: I only record like that cause I represent all the poor peoples that aint got the 8out board ya dig.

Lamp holding it down for us poor bastards.

REPRESENT, REPRESENT !!!

maybe we should take up a collection to buy lampdog an 8-0ut board.

Don't be stingy.... if ya'll takin up one for him, ya'll gotta hit it up for the rest of your poor brothas out here... i.e., ME!

All I do is make sure each track in the mpc sounds exactly as I want it to. Efx, compression, all of that. I too do not have the 8 outs. So instead of me having to dump each track/sound individually on the PC I do what needs to be done before that, similar to what Lamp said. If it sounds good on the MPC then I feel I don't need to have to individualize each track on the PC. Just a little overall touch up on the instrumental track is all that's needed to me. And since I like my sh*t dirty and grimey I don't need to do all that. I only dump individual tracks when I'm doing R&B joints which normally are squeaky clean

Can you do what Will described about Logic (put each trach from the MPC to diffrent tracks in the computer) WITH cool edit Pro 2? I know that it has a mulittrack function!

And, to you record it through the midi cables??! Or do you have to use the master out at your MPC?

I want to learn more about this, because I like that way to work, im just newbie with my MPC! But I'm good with multitrack recording sessions when we make tracks in my home studio.


Abu

You cannot record audio through MIDI. MIDI is just a control signal that musical and non-musical equipment can use to tell eachother what to do.

Recording each individual sound on a separate channel is time consuming if you haven't got 8 outs, but pretty much necessary when mixing.

Sorry. And 8outs is??

It's an expansion board for the MPC2000/XL that gives you 8 separate outputs, which means that you can have separate channels of audio for each instrument (kick, snare, shakers, percussion etc).

So, when this is something that I really think I should have, I cant do this with my MPC1000??

Because, a friend of mine, has the XL LE, and I think he can do it. And I though that MPC1000 could do it also.

Abu

I might be wrong, but the 1k has 4 outputs, doesn't it? That should be enough for most of your needs, I think.