Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By stephen126 Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:09 am
hello, i have a mbox mini and pro tools le, i know it only lets me record one track at a time. Thinking about upgrading to a digi 002 rack. would this be a good move, considering i do not have 8 outs? do i need 8 outs to be able to record 8 at a time? is this easier than i am making it out to be?

By stephen126 Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:24 pm
c'mon somebody's got to be able to help me.
By K-Mello Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:42 pm
stephen126 wrote:hello, i have a mbox mini and pro tools le, i know it only lets me record one track at a time. Thinking about upgrading to a digi 002 rack. would this be a good move, considering i do not have 8 outs? do i need 8 outs to be able to record 8 at a time? is this easier than i am making it out to be?


Think your way through this bruh. How could you *individually* record 8 outs at a time without having 8 *individual* outs?

Peace,
KM

By stephen126 Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:44 am
word, i feel stupid
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By 2000XL4Life Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:07 am
Get the 8 outs man. Check out Presonus Fire Pod. Much cheaper than the 002 with the same sound quality.
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By Lampdog Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:42 am
I've heard the presonus a few times, and the sound quality is jammin.
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By 2000XL4Life Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:27 am
Yes sir. It has 8 inputs and comes with Cubase Le.
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By Lampdog Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:07 pm
There are SO many to choose from...

Find the one that has the specs you want/need and maybe a few more specs than you need cause as you get better you will wanna get bigger with your ideas, you know give yourself room to grow, if your pockets allow ya dig.....

when you find the one you think is worth it, or find a few that you are interested in, see if you can find a place to demo them and listen to them with a range of different music, sounds, whatever.
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By d_avellee Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:31 pm
Lampdog wrote:There are SO many to choose from...

Find the one that has the specs you want/need and maybe a few more specs than you need cause as you get better you will wanna get bigger with your ideas, you know give yourself room to grow, if your pockets allow ya dig.....

when you find the one you think is worth it, or find a few that you are interested in, see if you can find a place to demo them and listen to them with a range of different music, sounds, whatever.



This Helped me out alot.......Alot of guys go out, Spend they're entire check on something they "thought" was hot.....

TIP:Go see the Equipment. ask questions... Research... Educate yourself On the Pros/cons...... Guitar Center is good for this....
Nothing is worst then buying a new Product,and getting that feeling Like you were influenced by the salesperson......

So when your in the studio and that one DEBATING-BRANIAC trys to talk down about your equipment.... You let him have it. and then you kick his azz out.

..... WORKS EVERY TIME......

By stephen126 Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:17 pm
hows the learning curve for cubase, i have a little experience with protools, but none with cubase?
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By 2000XL4Life Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:46 pm
There is no learning curve with Cubase. But, I only use it for tracking then I convert to wav files. I also have the M-Box1- ProTools but as you know it only has 2 inputs. I do all my mixing in PT becuz that's what I started with. One thing thats super dope about Cubase...The bounce to disk isn't in realtime like PT. You can bounce an entire song in 20 secs but in PT your bounce will be as long as your song is 3:43 or 10:15 sec and that sucks. Digidesign really needs to fix that.

Good luck man.

By stephen126 Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:51 am
Think i am going to go with that presonus, seems like the best for the money, and might use PT to mix.
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By d_avellee Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:49 am
good choice..... Get the best parts of Both worlds... Cubase and PT are not that different......

By stephen126 Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:25 am
thank you all for your input
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By sharif Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:49 pm
Son, you all good with what you got if you patient enough to record one track at a time... I got the same thing, Mbox2 mini, & I'm STRAIGHT... Long as you got Pro-Tools along with your MPC? You are forever straight, dog..