what do the industry cats use

[The Bastard]

anyone know what typa equipment famous producers are usin, like alchemist rza jusblaze kanye west ,just tryin to get an idea of whut the pros use, i read an article that said that prince paul still uses old ass equipment like the sp1200 to make beats

 

[soundboy2]

al, uses the ASR-10 mostly, I saw Kanye in the lab on a video interview like 2 years ago on the 2kxl, Blaze is on the triton and mpc mostly .

Do know about, Rza.

I find it interesting that I never ever even heard a hint of what Timberland use, anybody know?

 

[bigdmakintrax]

Timbo uses a combination, one of the reasons I even went and copped fruity loops a few years ago because he was using the grid to do some of his tracks and create patterns he resampled into the MPC....and I saw a picture of the setup and there was an sp1200 in the background too along with a triton not sure what out of that assortment that got use on beats.....also don't sleep on the sp1200 a lot of producers use it until this day because peeps like prince paul like that sound along with a rack of other Platinum producers I went to a panel less about a year and half ago......and I won't go into all of who attended 5 out of the 7 producers mentioned it as the centerpiece of a lot of production and they also could have mention the mpc4k which 2 of them were using too, have you done a sequence on an sp1200 or worked with one more than a few weeks to see what it can do? its an old piece but all of the software like fruity loops emulate this piece as far pattern to song creation, pitch, truncate..... the only thing it cannot duplicate is the sound....I resampled the entire 808 kit from fruityloops to the SP and I am still amazed at what it does to a sample like a kick that sounds ok coming out of the computer but then you trigger that same sample from the SP I don't know what else to say......I had an s950 which was supposed to be equivalent to the mpc60 and it still didn't put the same bottom into a normal or flimsy sounding Kick or Bass.

 

[maddogg]

I know Just blaze uses mpc2000xl and a roland 5080.And i know tim uses the triton alot you can tell in alot of his tracks that its triton sounds.
Plus ive read interviews on both recently.I seen a video online with alchemist and i forget what it was but he was using some oldschool ish.
Peace



P.S.also just blaze was posting at hiphopmusic.com for a while under the name Jb after his interview. http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000245.html
if you feel like reading through all that he drops some knowledge on diffrent stuff.

 

[CooGi_dice]

yea alota people use the triton serries, as well as the trinity.

mpc 3000 is a real popular peice as well. dj shadow uses a mpc60II, basicly the same as a mpc3000. kanye uses a mpc as well.

i know the rza used to use a asr-10 and mpc2000xl... that was about 6 or 7 years ago so iim not sure if he is still working with that.

i read what the alchemest uses a while back but i forgot......ha ha.

 

[onetildawn]

Madlib uses a Dr Sample. ( roland Sp 202 ) for sampling, I don't know if he uses it for his beat making tho, I'm sure it would be hella akward.

 

[Cold Truth]

im not so sure about that. there is a picture of him and jay dee on the jaylib cover with them sitting in a room with a motif rack, xv5050, and mpc 3000/4000 (wasnt sure about the mpc)