![]() When you buy a live drum set you are essential stuck with a single kit but you can and will develop methods to get a large number of sounds from it. Also this let’s to you be very creative not only in terms of being artistic but in also making the most of your hardware as it is. This kind of discipline and ear focussed workflow is quite different from the we will fix it later trend of DAW based production. You really strive to make every single one step you recorded live or via step mode make it sell its full worth and you go about your compositions and productions with a very ciritical ear becos your time is super important. The beauty of this interface is that it makes you hear more and listen critically more than thinking in post production terms of an edit done later. The sample layering and repeated takes on the pads that MPC 1000 has will test your patience, unless you like it of course. MPC does not jam well with laptop like workflow where you just visit an event and drag and drop it or do fades like in Renoise as a tracker would… you need to use step edit for fixed grooves and mostly live record mode for the human parts. It’s one thing that will take you aback when you go for the 1000 or 500 or any other in that series. That is where bibliography works best, for references to others works for further research if the reader feels like it, similar to your plugin architecture on Renoise.ītw for the DR 880 and similar drum machines with their unique falvours and features, I dare you to program a live rock groove in any MPC especially the older ones with that level of realism without significant time spent doing step editing in the LCD. The author did not think it was relevant to have a muffin recipe in any of the pages even if some of his readers might be cake addicts and need their daily fix. You can always complain about a muffin recipe missing from Proust but it’s not there for a reason. I find the same thing with Renoise, it’s like an excellent book. Like a good book makes you think and learn and pontificate at the same time and not get bloated with ‘filler chapters’, it’s exactly the same thing with an MPC. ![]() Likewise MPC does the things it can exceedingly well, and many of which transcends gear fashion trends. ‘A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.’. I really have to quote Mark Twain here again for this: It all about how you use it, not what it can or cannot do. Certainly works for the entire hip hop scene for the past 2 decades. The MPC works best for folks who think like Brian Eno where his entire studio is his instrument. Has some good points, but you can’t regret buying a guitar, with no midi or screen either.
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