Got a MPC ren
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Lol I'm sitting here taking notes at work reading the manual .....
Figured out how to chop and lay a 2 bar sequence
What exactly are you trying to do? I started on a mpc 2000 which means I had to slice and chop every piece one by one, 2kxl had the auto slice and program. Everything since then has had it.
My jargon might be off but load your sample (sample screen).put in how many slices you want (4,8,10,12,16 might be under edit) and you can individually edit the start and end points or let the program automate and decide where the starts and ends are then hit slice or do it and boom you have your chops.
@head shots101
The best thing to do which might be difficult now since I'm assuming they incorporate all the software is to sit down with the manual and the machine, go through each section and when they describe or tell you what something is, do it.
Even if you know the shyt. See what a one shot sample vs a hold does. Toggle the attack, release, delay, sustain, put a same on 16 pads see how the velocity changes with each pad, then put it on 16 pads and tuning, see how each pad changes the tuning of each sample (speeds up, slows down), assign shyt to the q-links, use the note repeat in each time signature, toggle the filters etc.
The best thing to do which might be difficult now since I'm assuming they incorporate all the software is to sit down with the manual and the machine, go through each section and when they describe or tell you what something is, do it.
Even if you know the shyt. See what a one shot sample vs a hold does. Toggle the attack, release, delay, sustain, put a same on 16 pads see how the velocity changes with each pad, then put it on 16 pads and tuning, see how each pad changes the tuning of each sample (speeds up, slows down), assign shyt to the q-links, use the note repeat in each time signature, toggle the filters etc.
I figured out how to chop samples and lay it down on a sequence. My time is very limited on the week days so I'm sitting with this shyt for like a hour a day smh. Next I want to figure out how to do More than one sequence and then lay it out in song mode. I still haven't fukked with laying down drums or going through effects etc.
I like to manual sample I don't really like doing auto sampling but this shyt kind of dope on here
It's a lot of shyt on here man
Trust the process breh.
I was back on the mpcforums in the early early 2000's. Anytime you had a question
I did, I just want to know how to or if.....
It was kind of assholish. But that's the way it was, it ran a few people off the site and also saved clutter. Nobody asked blatantly obvious questions that would've been solved by reading.
Also it made you a master of the machine. I read that thing back to front, front to back. Went through and toggled any and everything that could be toggled. When I got my mpc 2000xl I did it again, and I did it again with the Mpc 4000.
There's a video of YouTube from the early 2000s with pharrell saying something like "don't rush to use the next big thing or think you need something else, use whatever you have to its maximum capability." Basically master whatever piece of equipment you have, make it yours.
It takes a minute, but it was fun.
Definitely don't get discouraged. It's a machine, you won't break it or anything on it. So hit the pads, turn the knobs, toggle shyt on and off, slide shyt up and down.
Yea bro I can't wait to sit down and really get a chance to fukk with this....shyt is so sexy man lol
Hell me too
heck I still use that version when I first break out a new computer 
me either. Left it alone after a few months
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Beatmaker 3 for the iPad
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so beautiful
Trying to find a good video on that
Hopefully when I get home tonight I can fukk with it for a bit
Trying to figure how to have my samples and my drums playing at the same time 
Pretty sure it's simple as fukk
Pretty sure it's simple as fukk
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Man listen ....
