You’ve not been following this thread, then not too long ago were some trance/melodic techno joints made on the live 2 by a fellow elektronaut.
And ages ago I remember a couple of videos on Telekom electronic beats where Ian Pooley is walking through his mpc workflow using, I believe, an mpc 3000. So there’s at least three videos on the internet with mpc that aren’t anything hip hop THREE(at least). Also analog kitchen uses mpc on his melodic house/techno live sets and he puts out videos as well
These non lofi hip hop examples are cool, but still showcase my frustration with MPC’s so far. All these other examples are still very rigid and straight forward structures. Don’t get me wrong, I love the sound of my MPC and am determined to come up with some music I like (I’ve come close a time or two, but still have so much to learn). On my Elektron machines for example, polymeric stuff is super easy to set and play around with. Randomizing slice points on the Octatrack with an LFO, not to mention using LFO’s on fx. It’s just easier to play around with different structural concepts for me on Elektron devices. The thing that keeps me trying to crack the code on my MPC is the audio quality is just so dang good, as are the fx. Plus Akai keep adding more and better plugin fx and instruments and created an ecosystem where they can keep expanding those things indefinitely. I have a Live 2 but often think a Key 37 or 61 even might’ve been a smarter move to be able to play in more on the fly improvised parts at gigs. I’m committing myself to trying to make MPC’s work for what I have in mind, but it has been an uphill battle. In part because I just haven’t had enough time to really learn lately.
Sure, you have a point. Or you would, if the videos (and email campaign) were about mpc 3 and not about a certain plugin called sub factory which works on mpc2 as well as in 3 and as a vst, right?
I think for me what works is just letting time take it’s course and not trying to rush it the more you use it the more it’ll come to you and I like letting the natural pace whatever that may be guide me…
another thing I find that helps is that contrasting workflows used back to back especially when I’m tired of one and immediately move over to another helps me to define whatever i’m working on more clearly, so basically all day I just work on one thing til I get sick of it and then hop on the next and go in a circle from digitakt to mpc to deluge to ableton, to tracker, to the next thing and and so on til getting back to the beginning, somehow the different workflows help to sharpin one another… but most important imo is having patience with myself unless deadlines are involved.
Idk. I want to give more credit to the kids. There must be at least one like me when I was a kid who looks at all that that everyone else is into and thinks it’s lame af.
I have just started teaching myself the MPC with the purpose in mind of doing some crunchy ambient drone type of stuff. Here’s a little babysteps clip I was starting on before my vacation. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PtcQQ5F9Y54
I’m trying to figure out if I can switch from a MacBook/Ableton live set-up to just my MPC Live 2.
One of the issues I have is that some songs have instrumental breaks, and there are 3 of us, and I’d like to not need in ears for click tracks.
I’m thinking I might be able to use multiple (2-4) ‘Songs’ in the MPC to allow for breaks, then manually bring sections in via different Song tracks. If this makes sense!? Is anyone doing anything similar?
I’ve been here before, got frustrated and just took back to Ableton as the path of least resistance… but I’d really like to see it through on the MPC for these next shows.
not too long ago were some trance/melodic techno joints made on the live 2 by a fellow elektronaut.
THREE(at least). Also analog kitchen uses mpc on his melodic house/techno live sets and he puts out videos as well
I just delete that email.
the more you use it the more it’ll come to you and I like letting the natural pace whatever that may be guide me…