By tron27
Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:11 pm
Looking for examples of how people are using the MPC 1000 live. My situation may be a bit unique. I play a real drumkit and want to use the mpc in a live setting with a rockband for playing pre-recorded loops and maybe the basslines as well. It appears that most people Use the MPC for the drumbeats and that the large majority of the music is hiphop. So I will be using the mpc to play loops that I (and other musicians) will be playing instruments along with. I imagine I will need to run a click track to myself via headphones so to avoid any train wrecks. Most of the loops are generated from synths ( A Micron, and a MicroKorg) and we cant decide whether it would be better to run the loops on the MPC via MIDI from the synths or to pre-record/sample them on the MPC and let it do all the work itself. Anyone out there that is doing something similar? I know bands like the Raveonettes and Blonde Redhead play against some pre-recorded back tracks but there isnt much info on how they are doing it and how I can do the same with the MPC 1K.

