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

[Some Guy]

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 dont you take 486 of those floppies and put them all on one CD? Or you can put over 2900 floppies on one DVD if you have that many. 4 boxes of floppies equals what?....2 cd's worth. Not very impressive. To top it all off floppies are probably more fragile than CD's. Whats the point of using them anymore? To "keep it real" haha.

 

[BOSS AUTHORITY]

Hardware is definitely dope. You see anyone performing with a laptop? That's pretty whack! That's like a DJ "spinning" using PCDJ or shit like that. I'm not dissing software, it's all good.

 

[L-LaMENT]

I think it doesn't matter if you have a million dollar setup or a 200 dollar setup, skill is skill no matter how low quality it sounds (of course that doesn't mean you can come up with some seriously distorted crap... common sense.)

 

[capkom]

Since producing isn't a live performance it doesn't matter what you use. Producers aren't dj's! Hip hop has been using new technology from the start. I bet when everything first started there was a big discussion on a live band vs. a drum machine or sequencer. Everybody needs to accept that technology is advancing. If u like what u have keep it, but a laptop can do what u need it to with the right equipment and software. We're talking about makin beats here, not the total recording process. This site is the home for Hip-Hop producers, not engineers. Everything gets mastered in a studio(on some sort of computer) later on. It doesn't matter if a rapper writes his flows down on paper, or types them using a pda- the skill is the same. It's the same with beats. be the best you can on your machine, whatever it is!

 

[Some Guy]

Originally posted by capkom
Since producing isn't a live performance it doesn't matter what you use. Producers aren't dj's! Hip hop has been using new technology from the start. I bet when everything first started there was a big discussion on a live band vs. a drum machine or sequencer. Everybody needs to accept that technology is advancing. If u like what u have keep it, but a laptop can do what u need it to with the right equipment and software. We're talking about makin beats here, not the total recording process. This site is the home for Hip-Hop producers, not engineers. Everything gets mastered in a studio(on some sort of computer) later on. It doesn't matter if a rapper writes his flows down on paper, or types them using a pda- the skill is the same. It's the same with beats. be the best you can on your machine, whatever it is!

Thats what Im talkin bout.

 

[BOSS AUTHORITY]

Yeah but a large portion of hip-hop producers are DJs and therefor need equipment for live performances...

 

[inrctyhoodmusic]

Yeah but a large portion of hip-hop producers are DJs and therefor need equipment for live performances...

There are very few Dj's that are producers and a lot of the dj's that have become producers.....(excluding Dr . Dre ) are not as sucessful as producers look at Kid Kapri Irv Gotti was a Dj for many years before Murder pink sorry I meant stink opps sink no I belive it's murda inc...But Irv doesn't produce anything he had a team of about 10 producers and then he got Seven from rap a lot and jacked him for all the credit just like he did the rest of them ....so to say a large portion of producers are Dj's is other than the truth

 

[BeatOff]

Originally posted by BOSS AUTHORITY
Yeah but a large portion of hip-hop producers are DJs and therefor need equipment for live performances...

Like what 1200's adn a mixer? what else what a dj need for live performances?

 

[BOSS AUTHORITY]

Originally posted by BeatOff
Like what 1200's adn a mixer? what else what a dj need for live performances?

Yeah, those would help. Obviously you guys don't get out to too many hip-hop shows. Most guys use DATs or minidsics or whatever, but real heads use samplers and drum machines during there performances. I saw Anti-pop consortium and they based a large part of their performance on their drum machine/ sampler. I'm just sayin for all the people who claim software is equivalent or better than gear, it will never be able to replace it in that sense. Word.
-BOSS AUTHORITY

 

[BeatOff]

Originally posted by BOSS AUTHORITY
Yeah, those would help. Obviously you guys don't get out to too many hip-hop shows. Most guys use DATs or minidsics or whatever, but real heads use samplers and drum machines during there performances. I saw Anti-pop consortium and they based a large part of their performance on their drum machine/ sampler. I'm just sayin for all the people who claim software is equivalent or better than gear, it will never be able to replace it in that sense. Word.
-BOSS AUTHORITY

LOL is that so. You have no idea who your talking to.

 

[BOSS AUTHORITY]

You have no idea who YOU are talking to

-BOSS AUTHORITY

 

[Copenhagen]

Looks like people are running out of ideas...

You can use both and people probably don't care if you're playing live with hardware or with software f.x. with midi controllers. Once again, whatever suits you best is what works...

 

[inrctyhoodmusic]

Copenhagen
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Looks like people are running out of ideas...

You can use both and people probably don't care if you're playing live with hardware or with software f.x. with midi controllers. Once again, whatever works suits you best is what works...

Thanks a lot copen.....these people don't seem to get what the thread is...it's not what you have It's what you can do with it

 

[BoogieMan]

Yo... outboard gear (hardware) is always good to have. It's what sets the breeds apart. Software has made beat making affordable to everybody and it seems that everybody and their mommas are trying it. Fruity Loops, Acid Pro, Cakewalk and Reason, to name a few, have made bedroom producers out of many. Not that I'm knocking them, as I use all of them as well because they have great sounds. But mostly I'll sample the sounds into my MPC and flip the track like that. I dunno... to me, something about banging out a beat on my MPC is better than clicking one out on my PC.

 

[BOSS AUTHORITY]

Originally posted by BoogieMan
Yo... outboard gear (hardware) is always good to have. It's what sets the breeds apart. Software has made beat making affordable to everybody and it seems that everybody and their mommas are trying it. Fruity Loops, Acid Pro, Cakewalk and Reason, to name a few, have made bedroom producers out of many. Not that I'm knocking them, as I use all of them as well because they have great sounds. But mostly I'll sample the sounds into my MPC and flip the track like that. I dunno... to me, something about banging out a beat on my MPC is better than clicking one out on my PC.

-> Word

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[Copenhagen]

You can do the same with a MPC as you can with a PC and sequencer...we already had that discussion...let's not go there again.
What might be cool for some might be a pain for others...

Anyway, I was just reminded of something. In FruityLoops, someone has made a cover of Aaliyah's "Try again", which is incl. in the program. I haven't used FruityLoops in a long time but as far as I remember it was only the sounds that varied from the original...which only goes to show that you can make tight beats in a pc based sequencer if you spend money on the right sample CD's...almost all instruments are to be found on Sample CD's these days.

 

[Some Guy]

Originally posted by Copenhagen
You can do the same with a MPC as you can with a PC and sequencer...we already had that discussion...let's not go there again.
What might be cool for some might be a pain for others...

Anyway, I was just reminded of something. In FruityLoops, someone has made a cover of Aaliyah's "Try again", which is incl. in the program. I haven't used FruityLoops in a long time but as far as I remember it was only the sounds that varied from the original...which only goes to show that you can make tight beats in a pc based sequencer if you spend money on the right sample CD's...almost all instruments are to be found on Sample CD's these days.

-> Word

 

[inrctyhoodmusic]

Hardware and Software together is like peanut butter and Jelly..With both you can do a lot but if you have one and not the other you still can make a sandwhich

 

[Beatbrigade]

many producers make amazing tracks with a record collection and an mpc............gear is nice, but you cannot buy talent

 

[Copenhagen]

Just like a few other threads, this one has been around the block a few times and I think it's time to put it to rest.

Thread closed.