Convince me to keep my MPC 1000

I purchased my 1000 last month, and have yet to really sit down with it. I use Live 6 and produce IDM . After really reading info about the 1000 and MIDI timing issues with Live, I'm starting to think it may be a bit redundant in my setup. I bought it to use mainly has a drum machine, and to write beats due to me hearing about that famous MPC swing. I just don't know if I should keep it, or sell it and buy a MachineDrum. Give me some ideas of how to incorporate the 1000 into my setup and workflow.

Macbook Pro
Presonus FireBox
Live 6.0.5
Fabfilter complete bundle
CME UF5

sell me your mpc and the rest of your equipment

da gifted 1 wrote:sell me your mpc and the rest of your equipment

&your pet

just sell it

if YOU dont feel you need it and you've had it for months and you havent sat down with it and really gotten into it, why should other people convince you to do otherwise....

Nah, if you took time to go out and buy a MPC then sit down with it and play around. Once you use the MPC for a little bit, you'll realize why people like it. It all depends if you rather use hardware or software. But if you bought the 1000 it's at least worth the time to sit down and play with it a little bit.

Sell it to me for 100 bucks

I purchased my 1000 last month, and have yet to really sit down with it.

Then you go on to say......

I'm starting to think it may be a bit redundant in my setup.

You haven't even worked out in depth yet whether it works well with your setup or not, you also probably haven't even tried the jj os's to see if it would make a deep and better impact with your setup.

Convince yourself by doing all of that.

Lamp with the real once again.

convince me to convince you

Lampdog wrote:I purchased my 1000 last month, and have yet to really sit down with it.

Then you go on to say......

I'm starting to think it may be a bit redundant in my setup.

You haven't even worked out in depth yet whether it works well with your setup or not, you also probably haven't even tried the jj os's to see if it would make a deep and better impact with your setup.

Convince yourself by doing all of that.

So true, your right. I guess I was just reading way too much. So I will have a serious go with it. What other OSX software is out there besides MPC Pad 187?

i am using the same seq as you, i use a 1000 with live 6.

first i will say, that you will get the same midi delay issues with a machine drum. it is not the mpc causing it, it is live 6 and your sound card.

next, i hear the machine drum has a pain of a learning curve.

you want the mpc to sequence your drums then keep it. not only can you get that "swing" but it makes the process much faster and a lot more fun. i got an mpc for the same reason and that reason only, drums, and i love it.

so as your doctor i advise you to load up some programs and samples, fire up some green goo (if you so chose, unless you have one of those so called smoke free studios) and start banging on those pads and make some beats. then re post in the morning.


as for the sync issues, you can get the mpc and live synced, you just need to adjust the latency in live. for my work flow i usually work on my beats on the mpc, then when i have the feel i will record a four or 8 bar loop into live and then work on other elements i want in the song. eventually i will record all elements of the different drum patterns into live as clips. or if you choose just mute tracks and record you different elements as different clips, high hats, bd's, snares, etc.

there is a thread on the live forums dedicated to live and the mpc, do a search mpc + live on their forums.

if you don't need the cash then keep it for a bit and play around. don't think a machine drum will be an easy way out though.

i hate threads like this lol. let me show this fool of this topic how to do shit.. **** ya newgen idm artist ya aint intelligent to comprehend the power of the akai check it fool..

check this video fool ---> http://youtube.com/watch?v=tlnjb0xuuGQ

naugie wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=tlnjb0xuuGQ