Elektron-Users

nice....that's the use I'd be putting it to as well.

plus, I have to admit that I've wanted some of those MPC pads ever since I first got into electronic music production about 4 years ago...


Milk: do you use the MPC1k sequencer much to drive synths? Does it handle it well?

I'm using a mpc1000 with a MM and MD for live stuff, and i love the combination.

I've got the MPC as master, and each pattern is set to control the patterns of the MnM & MD (which I can mute when I want to stray from the program). I've got the main outs of the MPC going straight to a channel on my mixer. outs 1&2 into the inputs of the MnM, which handles sampled synth/vox/melodic loops, that i want to use effect in real-time. outs 3&4 into the MD, which handles percussion samples (i only use single hit samples), which gives all of my drums the elektron compressed sound. the main outs from the MPC are used to play patterns which i use as transitions between tracks.

when my nord g2 gets here, I plan on sequencing it from the MPC.

for me it's been a very productive set-up, and very compact too, which is great.

steve

yeah, I have used it to sequence my Virus to death - its probably one of the best hardware sequencers in the market in my opinion. Plus, the 2 midi I/O's put it in the big leagues with even a PC sequencer.

Rockland: thats a great idea! I use the MnM inputs for effects - with the latest OS it has been even easier since the ringmod bug is now gone. You seem to have a nice compact rig and have it dialed in - I have a lot of respect for that. int:

ggoodwin wrote:
^^ since you mention it, I guess I'll point out that the MD-UW is very far removed from a normal sampler. It is really cool to be able to use your own stuff as raw material for the MD engine/sequencer, but it really doesn't fill a lot of the more traditional sampler roles. For example, I want to sample some patterns off my evolver for multitrack-esque functionality, but the UW can't really do that properly...so I think that there would be little overlap between an MPC (or any phrase sampler) and the UW.

Quite true. I have found that I prefer to use the MD to make my drum sounds, instead of using samples (not that I have anything against sampling, just a personal preference), so the UW will handle my limited sampling wants nicely (don't need a lot of memory, but need a lot of tweakability). Good idea about routing the sound of the MPC out into the MD or MNM in's. That opens up the tweaking ability a good deal, although not on an individual track basis...hmmm.

If it works for Autechre...

cchocjr

Oh shit, the mpc 2500 looks damm good.

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/2010/mpc2wj.th.jpg

I have an mpc1000 although i don't really use it much, outside live performances. The biggest complain is the lack of midi control. The mpc1000 is very summier for using in a daw, you can't automate much. Thats why i use Kontakt2 nowadays, which is far more advanced. And has far more features, like most pc based sample plugs do.

PS. the 2500 looks great, although the improvements are not really revolutionairy...

Anyone else have problems with the following:

Q-link sliders - why are there two of them? Am I crazy?

Forgetting about the feeble ultra cheesy effects - how about the attack? I'm trying to make jumpy baselines and I'm not entirely.. feeling it...

Also, this goes O/T so I might be double posting (pardon!) but does anyone run their MPC1000 with a Motu 828mkII and Cubase SX 3? I'm trying to open up the input buses correctly for Cubase. The Cubase mixer only responds to what is flagged "default bus". The CueMix console shows all channels properly. Recording in Cubase is proper. But before I hit the monitor switches for each channel I see nothing (except for default bus). When I hit monitor I get evil double layers of flam. Been tampering with this for a week. :-o

Mok: thanks for the input...I already use Kontakt with Cubase, and while it is powerful for sure, I just have trouble getting my inspiration captured with that setup, for some reason. I'm looking into the MPC line to replace that exact combo with a more hands-on sequencer and a more direct sampling engine. I don't often use the more esoteric/synthy parameters in kontakt, anyways.

Friend: obviously I don't own the MPC1000 but it sounds like you might be having problems with the attack segment of your samples? Normally you should be able to adjust the attack on any sampler just by altering the sample start point.

ggoodwin wrote:

Friend: obviously I don't own the MPC1000 but it sounds like you might be having problems with the attack segment of your samples? Normally you should be able to adjust the attack on any sampler just by altering the sample start point.

That was me at work!

I'd like to play with the attack of the bass sounds after a bass line is recorded, to make it more vivid and bumpy.

Using the Q-Link slider for adjusting the attack parameter, from the minimum of attack to the maximum - the effect is rather weak. It's not comparable to what my friend gets from his MPC3000.

On another note, I'm thinking of selling off my MPC1000, with the MPC2500 on the horizon (it might be a hoax but I feel it coming!). This would get me some headroom to cop a used SF6 to keep with my MD-uw. The pads and step editing in the 1K sequencer would be missed at first.

Question: Is there some way of using sampled drums/sounds in the MD-uw and make them bump with the same, if not ease, at least confidence and SWING that I get spontaneously from the MPC sequencer? :-?

I haven't had any headaches using the MPC1K to master my whole setup. While the prospect of owning an SFX-6 might be reason enough to giving up anything, it would be hard to play my drum sounds the way I like on the Machinedrum. Either that or it's an excellent opportunity to learn what sampling is like with limited capacities.

But it's not an MPC-like situation, where I can free hand a lot of funky stuff on a Machinedrum with Time Correct turned off. Ways around this? Insert empty space in samples? Tweaking I might have missed?