It's Not What You Have It's What You Can Do

[inrctyhoodmusic]

JoeBurnem - the akaia s900 was my first machine and the fan went out in it....it was a damn good machine I wish I still had it.....I like the s 3000 or whatever thousand it is it looks very nice and has a detachable face.....but I'm going to get my s900 looked at because I had a lot of shit in there that I can't find in any moduel I had ashit load of samples in that thing

 

[HaZwaiOh]

i think the s900 uses a standard fan. open up the machine and take the fan to your dealer. I´m sure you can replace it with a 10$ fan.

 

[Scholar]

prob a comp fan..lol

 

[inrctyhoodmusic]

Thanks Hazwaioh......When I started this thread it was to show how computers and hardware go hand and hand and a lot of you don't seem to understand that one isn't better than the other...It's about creativity after all the thread is called IT'S NOT WHAT YOU HAVE BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO

 

[Scholar]

you know its funny i love the mpc series but i found myself looking for stuff to make my samples a lil different so now im selling my MPC and looking into Comp setup. i know that it wont make me better it will just open the door a ll wider for me to make my self better.

ONE!

 

[Barock]

Yo, Going4Broke... I use my Comp for editing my samples, but use tha MPC for sequencing and stuff... Shure you'll sell it? I mean you self said that you love the MPC, so why not usin it?

 

[Scholar]

i just know that i can do so much more on a comp. its alot faster i can load alot more sounds into it. i could save for a mpc4000 but why pay all that money when i can build a comp and get software for a whole lot cheaper and do a whole lot more.

 

[inrctyhoodmusic]

Going 4broke - it sounds like you all together given up on hardware and you make it seem as if you can't do anything with hardware and you're using a computer as a cop outmaybe you don't have the patients but it takes a whole lot more patients to try to produce from a computer and software if anything you would buy a midi adapter to run from pc to your mpc they even have usb midi ...if you know how to use the mpc you wouldn't get rid of it just like that you would use it together that way you could load the sounds in your computer control and sequnece them with the mpc if you know how to use the mpc you would think of ways to use it with your computer.....Like I said before software and hardware go hand in hand it's not what you hae but what you can do with what you have no disrespect intended but if you can't do anything with the mpc what makes you think you can do something with a computer?

 

[BeatOff]

I think what he's saying is that when you get a computer set up you can get a 124 track mixer along with everything else vs paying 75 grand for the hardware version. You can get an entire studio in your computer vs a giant room.

 

[Scholar]

this is what i am saying i have a roland xp60 and i love it way more then a MPC i love my mpc but lets be honest if you could have a MPC 4000 you would right? now look at computer i can do all that a MPC 4000 can with a computer and still look at a movie or anything else. im not knocking it but come on i see more on a screen then you can and if you really want to go deep look in your MPC ram, cpu, screen. keyboard(pads), you're really working a computer you just dont see it. beat off said what im thinking. i have a fully loaded MPC if you want let me know shit $900 its yours, but im going computer i have ill skills and i make money doing what i do. sorry you feel the way you do.

 

[Fade]

It would be cool if the MPC could be hooked up to a computer monitor!

 

[Scholar]

u know what would be the illest if they made a software like the MPC! you could load all of your sequences and all of your sounds now that would be dope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vitaminman]

Hey,

You can! Just get something like Kontakt; it will read Akai programs and play MIDI files. All you have to do is export from the MPC your sequences as a MIDI file and your sounds as an Akai program, then bring them into Kontakt.

Take care,

Nick

 

[Scholar]

cant halion do that as well?

 

[joeburnem]

KEEP ALL HARDWARE!
Hold that MPC, hold that 950, love it, cherrish it.

My comp crashed. I lost every sample stored on the hard drive. I forgot to update my disc for storage.

That never happens with my Akais. I have 3 or 4 Timbo boxes of 3.5's that will never go away.

 

[Barock]

The thing 'bout a bigger monitor was mentioned earlier. But I think, that if you hook your MPC via MIDI to your copmp, there wouldn't be any problems... because it's about music, it's not what you SEE it's what you can HEARE!

 

[BeatOff]

Originally posted by joeburnem
KEEP ALL HARDWARE!
Hold that MPC, hold that 950, love it, cherrish it.

My comp crashed. I lost every sample stored on the hard drive. I forgot to update my disc for storage.

That never happens with my Akais. I have 3 or 4 Timbo boxes of 3.5's that will never go away.

Why wouldnt you back all your samples up on a CD? Its the same thing. I've known people who's MPC Froze on them and they lost a beat they were working of for days. If you save as you go along there should be no problem of this. Not to mention the MPC display can burn out over time.

 

[joeburnem]

Hardware

I still say it is just as important as software based stuff.

An SP or MPC and some vinyl, come on! That what it's about.
Sore fingertips and worned down pads from those beat makin' all-nighters... I love it. And I know all you cats out there love it, too. so hold what you got cause Large Prof, Diamond D & Lord Finesse
are going to make us all fans again.

 

[Funkworm]

I hear you joe but I've gone completely software and I got to tell you, nothing compares to the editing or tweaking I can do inside my computer. I've converted my whole MPC library (and this took a looong time) to wav files so that I could use them with my software samplers. You're talking about a guy whose survival kit consisted of my MPC, food and water (in that order). But now she's just a midi controler because I still like the feel of her pads.

I have heard that there's a software program that allows you to control,dump, and organize your library for the MPC 4000

 

[Barock]

@FUnkworm.. I do almos the same like you... using the MPC as a MIDI Controller, and editing twisting chopping etc. everything on my comp. I think a MPC and Comp. work perfectly together...