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i bought an mpc 2000xl from a friend yesterday! i'm pretty excited about it, and i'll probably be spending the next several days messing with it. i've been making music on a computer for a long time, and it's interesting to try it in a different way. this means no point-click beat editing in reason for a while (sorry reason! i still love you!)
first, does anyone else here have any tips or tricks they would like to share? something it would take me a long time to figure out otherwise? i can already tell there are a million different ways to make music on this thing. any help would be greatly appreciated.
second, it has started me really analyzing how physicality (or lack there of), affects music. how do you think a more physical, instrument-oriented approach affects your music? or, inversely, how does a mouse-centric approach affect it? does it affect it at all? how can we connect more with our music?
anyone?
(also check out my cat in the lower right corner of that pic. he likes it too!)
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09/11/08
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tmns
Is that a copy of the psychedelic sounds of the thirteenth floor elevators i see in amongst those vinyls?
09/11/08
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breakscience
Turn off record quantize and leave it off forever!
Not having any or limited visual cues to influence the music is a great thing. Just to get away from the computer screen is such a relief sometimes.
09/11/08
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KidQuaalude
congrats. moving to mpc definately made music less of a chore for me.
imo dont leave quantise off, learn -when- to turn it off! 
09/11/08
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breakscience
your mother uses quantize! ;)
09/11/08
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dkarma
mpcs are teh pween
09/11/08
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hecanjog
so hot! you're making me rub my hands together and scheme an mpc acquisition of my own ;-)
next cedar show: dual MPCs, yeah!
09/11/08
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quip
thats a really good thing. how much?
09/11/08
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skab
my mpc tips
-max out the memory as soon as you can
-whip out the floppy and put in a mmc card reader
-learn to work those pads, get your fingers up off them fast to avoid unwanted flams
-rtfm. seriously - so much good info in there
-run all your hits thru a batch normalizer like soundforge, that way you can learn the velocity response of the mpc much faster
-use the mpc for sampling - A/D is great - and use a computer to edit/loop samples - mouse is much easier than frantic data wheel turning
09/11/08
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EsromCole
NO SCREEN!!! Use your ears, it's great. What I spent trying to make music with hardware I found myself endlessly noodling and never actually getting anything done.
09/11/08
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madeofoak
quip: $450 all told. got lucky, and it was from a good friend. souped up, too: 32mb of memory, plus the 8 output expansion.
09/11/08
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breakscience
Good price!
Now turn around and sell it for $700 or so and get a used mpc1000 and add the jjos2. Sorry had to say it.
09/11/08
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breakscience
Hmm, maybe they dont sell for that much anymore.
09/11/08
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soundhdack
Yeah, I never had a use for quantize when I had an MPC 2000. If you have good feel and timing to begin with, you don't need quantize. The result is that your sequences do not sound computer driven.
09/12/08
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skab
also
-get into the habit of putting each pad on a separate track.
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-get hold of instrmntl by dabrye.
09/12/08
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bla
get a mixer and effects and stuff for the 8 outs
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