making beats
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- autoflavour0
so i went and purchased a Doepfer Dark time today..
but yep.. apart from the fact it was partially non functioning.. it wasnt for me..cool story i know.. but i guess my point is.. they are a bit lame
- i've never really understood the lure of a 16 stage sequencer - so limiting and dull. especially in this Age of Reason ®hans_glib
- autoflavour0
- i want a tq5 - like the sounds and it looks like a miami vice alarm panel in a house made of glass blocks and neonprophetone
- I didn't realize how small it was until I saw a hand interact with it.
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- autoflavour0
I kind of have a bit of a lady boner over this..
but i cant get over how ugly they made it..seriously, it looks like a kitchen appliance from the 90's
- cubanhaze0
This is a thing of Beauty
- autoflavour0
contemplating selling off a bunch of things and picking up one of these..
anyone got one/played in person.. (ie opinions that are based NOT on what youtube videos you have seen)
- i was seduced by the monomachine when it came out.. and then was very much disappointedautoflavour
- like going on a date with an amazingly hot chick.. only to find out she has a dick and her name is gregautoflavour
- I dont want this to be another awkward expensive night.. so many painful memories..autoflavour
- dark places..autoflavour
- this is how it felt after i worked out how to use it.. and that it was useless.. http://www.youtube.c…autoflavour
- loldasmeteor
- 23kon0
The MPC movies crack me up. The prerequisites are:
- as much "hip hop speak" as you can do
- baseball cap (preferably backwards)
- nodding as you hit hunch over the MPC relishing your musical genius creation when all you've really done is slice up someone elses creativity and re-ordered it
- hit one pad at a time when layin' down a beat (i.e no REAL talent needed).The only one worth it's salt is AraabMuzik's video.
Compare these to what Jeremy Ellis is doing for Maschine or the other NI promo videos out there. No comparison.
With Akai launching MPC headphones they are now REALLY taking the piss and diluting the brand.
- they went too far with the hedphones imo, i mean do we really need another pair of sh*tty phones?prophetone
- it used to be about the legendary machines and now it's all glitzy controllers and fluffy puffy puffsprophetone
- premier's not getting rid of his 60II, lolprophetone
- prophetone0
namm 2013 find of the day, $150 simple battle mixer with a mini innofader in there. a 3 million cycle fader wrapped in a mixer for cheap, i like it. i already have three mixers but you know...
- 23kon0
ERR, how are you liking your Teenage Engineering OP-1?
I was bidding for one on sunday on eBay after watching loads of videos about them online saturday night. Looks like a great bit of fun for on the road.
After I lost the auction I think common sense kicked-in and I realised that for the same money I could have a new high spec iPad (I already have a Mk1) which would benefit me more - both as a synth, sequencer, midi control apps etc etc. (More bang for the buck).
If I had disposable cash then i'd definitely buy an OP-1 though.
Have read stuff about the battery only lasting about 2 years though :(
What I would like to know about it is, I realise it's got the tape that you record bits to and you can have multiple songs on this tape (before recording to 'album A/B).
Can the tape be saved though to your computer?E.g. You create parts for a handful of songs which you could play as a live set whilst in 'tape' by jumping around the parts and playing/solo/mute/FX the 4 channels.
Is it possible to SAVE this 'set' then recall it at a later date?
( I realise that to 'save' you need a PC connection)Hope you see this post and can answer.
- you are not seriously comparing an ipad to a synthautoflavour
- are you?autoflavour
- synth ALWAYS over computers. in 5 years, your ipad is ewaste. your synth.. is still a synthautoflavour
- inteliboy0
I normally use logic, reason and ableton. Maybe garageband is simple enough? Haven't used it before though...
- autoflavour0
garageband..
but me no compute?
you use logic, reason and ableton.. ?- yeah, less ableton though. Just want a simple DAW as they are too beefy when just need to jam ideas.inteliboy
- autoflavour0
also, after going in today with enough money in my pocket to buy a Elektron Analog four..
i spent 45 minutes playing with..
and .. yes its cool.
but not 1049 euro cool..
not by about 500 euro at least.
- it looks dope but yeah not at that $$$. i'd rather drop coin on vintage gear like a 909, sp1200prophetone
- mike20110
Was wondering, has anyone used/bought one of the new mpc's? I had my mpc studio delivered a week or two ago and to be honest, its terrible.
The software is so ridiculously buggy its pretty much unusable - it doesnt save properly so when you reopen a project a chunk of the sequences and samples are missing, audio routing in ableton seems long winded and counter productive, the duplication of VSTs is ridiculous and it crashes - alot!
I cant believe Akai are pushing these so hard in the state they are in. Just wish I had spunked the same money on a vintage 2000xl...lesson learnt, rant over.
- 23kon0
Should've done some homework on the MPC forums and other music-making forums around t'internet Mike.
Both the MPC's are nice looking bits of kit but there's a lot of drawbacks.Return it as 'not fit for purpose' and get yourself a Maschine MkII
;)
- mike20110
:) Its weird, I only read the bad stuff after buying it!
Hoping the next load of updates will sort out a fair few issues - like you mentioned, the problems with it are well documented (embarrassingly enough). Its a shame as the work flow on it should be really good....if only it worked!
The Maschine looks great, if I hadn't invested in so much time watching youtube videos starting 'Word up youtube, its'sha boy *insert gangsteresque pseudonym here*...' trying to learn the thing, i'd take it back!.....so, im sitting tight. Y'all ;)