General Question about making songs on the MPC1K...

I'm into making house and electronic type beats and I Just wanted to get some ideas as to how you guys begin to lay down your full songs on the mpc 1000.

See my problem is that I LOVE making drum loops and simple little riffs. But I usually don't actually ever finish any of the songs I start. Also when I do try to finish a song it usually ends up sounding like a bunch of loops put together.

I usually make a drum loop, a couple of synth and bass loops. Maybe even a couple of vocal loops and then copy them and change them up a bit as the song progressess....

I guess I'm just looking for tips to keep the song making process smooth and flowing so that I may actually start to finish some of these beats that I've made.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Try bouncing your tracks down to in some kind of program like Pro-Tools or Logic - then try adding some crazy effects and bring the track to life with some automation

frankzoff wrote:I'm into making house and electronic type beats and I Just wanted to get some ideas as to how you guys begin to lay down your full songs on the mpc 1000.

Me to - except I make techno - I rarely arrange the whole song in the MPC - I usually bounce the tracks down into pro-tools or logic and arrange all my audio parts in the computer - I went to the REMIX Hotel @ the WMC this year and learned quit a bit about arranging in the computer using Pro-Tools - Hint it's how Dan and Dave Aude are writting all there sh** now (with a few outboard pieces of gear)

I'm still new to the MPC style of working, but I've used Sonar for this.
But in general I try to lay out songs in a spreadsheet (OpenOffice), working with the blocks. Intro, Verse1, Verse2, Chorus, Verse3 - you know, copy and paste blocks. Then throw together a very rough song in the sequencer, so I can see what's missing, are some bits too long, too fast, what does it need?

Of course, if I was really any good at this, I'd have some MP3s to send you to, and I don't ... yet.