Why did most Hip-Hop producers still use MPC's and SP-1200's in the 90's???

[Wildin]

yeah, but why would you limit yourself with 5 seconds if you can do so much more with software?
I mean you can still only use 5 seconds if you want with software.

It's not really limiting yourself but forcing creativity. Like timbo putting pens in a cup shaking it adding a little reverb and further manipulating the sound for something original and exactly what he wants. In essence it's what we all want but instead of having a signature kick, snare, hats more amateur producers are apt to sift through libraries of sample files until they find what they want. Back in the day you sampled a kick or snare and tweaked it, then saved your sounds to floppies.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

But than again. You could still hook up 2 or 3 SP-1200's via MIDI if you had the money for it.
So the sampling time could still be expanded.

 

[kingdizzy01]

i enjoy the music making part more when im not tied to a computer. i only use a computer now to find a sample, edit a sound when i need to, and to mix tracks. in my experience, a computer takes the fun out of 'playing' music.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

I would love to own an sp1200

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I would love to own an sp1200

Me to! but after a while i probably won't find it that special anymore and go back to Fruity Loops.
That's what happened to my MV-8800 after i went back to FL Studio... finding out FL can do much more and is faster.

I'm thinking about just getting an MPK 261 keyboard. (It has 16 pads)

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

i enjoy the music making part more when im not tied to a computer. i only use a computer now to find a sample, edit a sound when i need to, and to mix tracks. in my experience, a computer takes the fun out of 'playing' music.

true but that's why i want to get a midi-keyboard/drumpad.

 

[Will Ross]

Cost

 

[Myrical Lyfe]

I would love to own an sp1200

For real. I keep wanting to get an mpc again but I have a feeling I'll regret it.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

I would love to own an sp1200

That & An ASR 10 Too

 

[Wildin]

Me to! but after a while i probably won't find it that special anymore and go back to Fruity Loops.
That's what happened to my MV-8800 after i went back to FL Studio... finding out FL can do much more and is faster.

I'm thinking about just getting an MPK 261 keyboard. (It has 16 pads)

You still got the 8800? That thing looks so dope to me, ive seen a couple irl but never got to plug one in and mess around. I frequent pawn shops and music stores all the time just to see what second hand equipment comes through...ive always been jealous that you can hook it up to a computer monitor. I think mpc would be so dope if they could do that.

Theres this dude on youtube he has these long ass videos with him fukking around with one. I dont listen too much about what he is sayin but I like to see the interface and the fukkin around.

if I keep watchin videos im gonna end up coppin one on the low...

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I would love to own a SP-120

You still got the 8800? That thing looks so dope to me, ive seen a couple irl but never got to plug one in and mess around. I frequent pawn shops and music stores all the time just to see what second hand equipment comes through...ive always been jealous that you can hook it up to a computer monitor. I think mpc would be so dope if they could do that.

Theres this dude on youtube he has these long ass videos with him fukking around with one. I dont listen too much about what he is sayin but I like to see the interface and the fukkin around.

if I keep watchin videos im gonna end up coppin one on the low...

I had a lot of fun on the MV though. I would still prefer it over a MPC.
You had this guy called Madman from Philly who made great tutorials on the MV. (Think they not online anymore)
And Roland themselves made good tutorials to start with.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I would still be using the MV if you could paint notes as easily in the piano roll like in FL Studio.
But it works very different and takes a lot of time to do.

The MV-8800 is probably the greatest hardware sampler of all time.

 

[HamAndEgger]

I was in Scott Storch's studio about a year ago and he's still using the MPC2000XL. He just uses it for tracking drums but mostly uses Logic now but imports the drums from the MPC. A lot of it too is if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I personally went from a MPC2000XL I used for 8 years to a Maschine and I love it, but there are certain things I used to do on the MPC (filtering samples / basslines) that I CAN do in Maschine but not as effective. I never quantize my drums and used to LOVE the swing on the MPC but I've managed to work around it on Maschine.

At the end of the day it's really preference. 90% of the audience listening won't know the difference between a kick coming from an MPC and Beat Making Program (Maschine, Logic, etc).

 

[Maschine_Man]

Outside of protools for tracking or recording vocals. Daws weren't that popular in the 90's
They were expensive, and the computers were limited back then.
They didn't have 3-5 tb drives back then

The work flow of an mpc was just(and still is) a lot easier to use. You can be up and running dropping a beat in minutes.
Plus linking up your racks for sounds and sampling directly from vinyl all made it a part of the process.

Using a usb keyboard and sampling from iTunes just ain't the same lol

I use Maschine now, but I still have my mpc

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

hmmm... yeah this seems really possible cause the computers couldn't do as much back than.