By Headphones
Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:30 pm
Most sites want to make it clear that the mpc is the ultimate tool for hip hop. And that's cool and all, but not too many sites are letting it be known that the mpc could do techno, drum n bass, trance, breaks, house, etc....I don't know if this is mainly because hip hop people use the mpc so much, and all the other styles might gravitate toward Reason, Logic, Fruity, Cubase, etc. But as long as you can sample every wobble bassline, break beat, etc, then the Mpc will be the tool you use to produce drum n bass, instead of a software sequencer. Nothing wrong with software mind you, and there would be endless VST synths and effects to choose from, but who has time/money to learn them all? Even Reason is going to take you some time to discover all it's secrets. Sometimes just when you have nothing but samples, and you build a track from that, is the beauty of what the MPC is capable of doing.
Most people don't know this, but drum n bass started when techno people were getting bored of 4/4 techno & house beats, and they were looking for a way to make the beats more interesting. They would buy Atari ST computers, and a S900 or 1000 Akai rackmount sampler, and would just sample the drum breaks off of jazz records. The sample time wasn't much back then, but the earliest version of Cubase was able to map out where the producers wanted their breaks, and at what pitch, etc. Then they could play them at 140bpm, 150, and beyond. (At the time, the faster the bpm of the record, the better it was in the underground)
Anyway, I'm sure there are some drum n bass sites out there that can give you advice on how to get the sounds you want. There might be other gear you need to buy, and maybe there isn't. But good luck to you...
Most people don't know this, but drum n bass started when techno people were getting bored of 4/4 techno & house beats, and they were looking for a way to make the beats more interesting. They would buy Atari ST computers, and a S900 or 1000 Akai rackmount sampler, and would just sample the drum breaks off of jazz records. The sample time wasn't much back then, but the earliest version of Cubase was able to map out where the producers wanted their breaks, and at what pitch, etc. Then they could play them at 140bpm, 150, and beyond. (At the time, the faster the bpm of the record, the better it was in the underground)
Anyway, I'm sure there are some drum n bass sites out there that can give you advice on how to get the sounds you want. There might be other gear you need to buy, and maybe there isn't. But good luck to you...
