Sampling - Dj premier

if u find quality sounds, the difference between 12 bit and 16 bit is minimal. learn how to use the mpc and manipulate sounds and u should be good.

but understand 1 thing----primo has been doing this for more than 20 years. even with a mpc 60 and 950 combo, if ur trash, ur trash.

wow, mrfantastic is digging up some old posts to reply to

if you watch the video for "classic" featuring krs one, nas, kanye, and rakim, you'll see that he uses an MPC 60II with an s950

i can't see any of the other gear because it's dark, but yeah....

the s950 is what gives his shit that grimy sound, or atleast i think so

but yeah, like dude said, you don't need to have the same gear, it's how you use it!

mrfantastic wrote:If you want to crunch up your drums use the resample feature (on 2000XL) and turn down the bit rate

it doesn't make the 2000 a 60..

Lazy Ray wrote:

mrfantastic wrote:If you want to crunch up your drums use the resample feature (on 2000XL) and turn down the bit rate

it doesn't make the 2000 a 60..

Yeah, true, but depending on the source of your sample will dirty your drums up nicely if you don't havethe option of a proper low bit rate sampler.
What I do is trigger an S900 from my MPC for real low bit rate. In a perfect world I'd have a 2000, a 60 and an SP1200 but i'm sure we'd all like those.

There is still such thing as original music?

Heres really nice DJ Premier article.

"I like the difficulties of the older equipment. I don't sample with the MPC60, I just use it to trigger drums. Instead I sample in the S950 and trigger them from the MPC — everything, also my keyboards, is MIDI'd to the MPC. I can only sample 60 seconds of audio in the 950, and that also has to include kick and snare and other drum sounds, so that limits the sample time I have. This forces me to be creative with samples. If I find a sample that's longer than 60 seconds that I want to loop, the first thing I'm going to want to do is find a way to make it funky with the limited sample time I have available. I'll mentally create the idea in my mind, because the mind makes the machine do what it does. Any machine is useless without my mind making it follow my command. That's how you recognise creativity versus someone who is OK.

"When my ear catches something on a record that I like, I'll send a portion of that record from my Technics record player to the S950. Once the sample is in the 950, I truncate the parts I don't want, program what I do have, and assign it to one of the pads on the MPC. I'll experiment to see if it makes me feel good and if it starts to sound like something I would buy. If it doesn't sound like something I would buy, it's not ready to go. I have to like it — I don't care what anybody else thinks.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul07/a ... remier.htm

he could use a fukn dildo and a tin can and im sure he';d still rock it. All thr power in the world is useless without a knack for tone.

potato I got something for you, big dogg. Check your pms.