greenleaf2001
New member
....cuz i don't....and i'm not tryin to sound arrogant, but i think i got some hot ass beats....i've never used an mpc, korg, or any piece of actual hardware, except for my cheap ass synthesizer....and i wanted to know if i'm the only person around who's from this 'new skool' of beat production....cuz, quite frankly, i'd like to hear some of the 'pro's of using hardware, versus software, cuz all my beats sound pretty damn good, and i have all the effects, and capabilities, if not more, than an mpc3000, or whatever....what i use is this....(now don't laugh right off, hear me out first....) i use Fruityloops 3.0 for sequencing....now here's what makes a TREMENDOUS difference....i don't really use any of the integrated samples that come with it.....i've sampled and collected single notes, kicks, snares, stabs, hits, strings, etc....all in 16 bit 44100 wave files, and i sequence them using FL3, to make my riff, pattern, or loop, and then sequence the 'song.' so if i have an 808 kick sample, its about 1/4 second long, just of that one bass hit, i'll sequence my own bass line in FL3 from it, just like if i was using a hardware seq.....and i do that with every sample, always single notes....always highest quality....i can't see what i possibly would need a hardware unit for, i can sequence a f*kin orchestra with my string samples, i have 1 sample on C1, one sample on C2, and so on....now once i sequence all that, i'll throw it into cool edit pro or something, and use the ME Compressor on it to the desired effect....(ME comp from steinberg mastering edition)....and i result in a bomb ass beat....sometimes i'll play with acid, or cubase, or reason, but i've never had to use an actual beat box, cuz, think about it....if you have all the samples from a beat machine, each note being its own wave file, its own sample, and you can seq them, with infinite send effects, and tweak the sample to sound however you want, why would i need a beat machine....hell, my PC is my beat machine....does anyone else make their beats that way??
)~~
)~~