N-E 1 out there who DOESN'T use MPC or Korg in hip-hop/rap?

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Thx Spin!

...Just,ummm..."Keepin' it REALLY Real!!"
 
i agree with MISTERQCUE but 2 throw my 2 cents in, I had more fun making beats when all i could afford was a straight hand turntable and a cheesy keyboard i bummed of a friend.

Now i have a full 24 track digital studio setup including the MPC and i spend more time problem solving than knocking out beats.

i think the MPC is a good machine and the Korg has great sounds but when it comes to making original music i try using thingz (sounds and shit) that i am pretty sure no other producer has access 2.

If it's studio standard i don't want it! I use my brain to create a beat, than da instrument (whatever it is) to compliment my idea.

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creature
 
Wasn't early HipHop done with stuff from companies who maybe didn't even know what HipHop was all about ?

BigBee
 
Hip-Hop was formed basically by us inner city youths in the late '70's who did not have money for expensive musical eguipment and recording gear. Kool Herc of the South Bronx harped on the need to add extra presence to the party by using 2 turntables and combining the played records drumbeats to extend them into virtual, long-playing drum-solos which created new beatz, hence the term "BEAT-BOY" dancer which eventually evolved into HIP-HOP! With the use of a microphone to give shout-outs to the "Homies" or the "CREW" and to make simple ordinary announcements of upcoming parties and to urge the crowd to "get off the WALL and onto the FLOOR" and "WAVE your HANDS in the AIR and SCREAM OH YEAH" led to the party's"M.C." which again evolved into more complex rhymes and stories of braggadocio, hence the "RAPPER" was born!!!
Proud to say I was there when all that sh#t started in the South Bronx, NYC!!
 
Your on point MisterQCue

(applause) Cue you are right on the money with your statement
I wish more people would realize it's how you work the machine, not let the machine work you. I hardly even use my MPC, cause it's so stiff compared to what I create on my own, I mean you have the triple factor (timberlands hi-hats) and the stutter beat, but over all, it's for people who dont want to put forth the effort and creativity to create something new.

It's always easier for some to follow than to lead
It takes a leader to take chances to bend the rules and change the obvious, that's what makes a great producer or musician
not a machine that everyone tells you to get.

(applause brother, standing Ovation) to the creators, keep doing what you doing, cause you cant satisfy everyone, but the other ONE-million may love what you do.
 
you welcome bruva

Yeah yeah man, you welcome on that (daps)
 
akai or korg

It really doesn't matter what you use its what you do with it that counts. Think of the Triton or MPC or ASR as a pen and pencil that you use to sketch with. It's your ideas that make the beats. I personally use the ASR-10 and thats all i use to do beats. To hear some samples of what i've done check out:

WWW.Sandboxautomatic.com and look under CD's
look for Mr.Complex i did the "COREMIX and the Stabbing You remix".
check it and see for yourselves if it sounded like a Korg or Akai

(had to add my lil' 2 cents)
 
I USE TWO SOUND CARDS

BOTH BY TURTLE BEACH
AND CAKEWALK PROFESSIONAL 3.0 ,CAKEWALK PR0 AUDO 9 FOR AUDIO MIX DOWNS...
WAVELAB 3.0 AND SOUNDFORGE OR T-RAX TO MASTER...AND LOADS OF PLUGINS...
CHECK MY LINK FOR SOME REAL AUDIO SAMPLES...AND WWW.MP3.COM/HEAVYHITAZ
OR LENBERZERK.COM ..............AND LISTEN TO ANY TRACK BY WIZ C PRODUCTIONS..!
 
Yo Wiz C, you from the BRONX!! You already know the deal!!!
 
Production can be Misleading

I think that for a while the norm was to hear people using Trinity and Triton and MPC.

The Trinity definitely has a sound all of its own. The MPC however doesn't. It is a sampler. Just as such any other tool that can sample can be used.

I have MPC 2000XL, TrinityRack, EMU samplers, EMU modules, Alesis modules, Roland Modules, etc etc.

I use what I feel. Sometimes its all sampled instruments, other times its modified sounds from a device such as the Trinity.

90% of the most sucessful productions use samplers or reconditioned sounds(customized patches) from devices like Trinity or JV1010. This makes the thought of naming these devices as the staple of this sound, and little misleading.

Peace
 
bottom line (it is misleading)

raerae28 --- you are so right, I mean, it's as if someone said,
"Yo! you did that on a MPC" --- that's why that track is tight
"Yo! that sound is ill, you use the TRITON right"

I sit back sometimes and look and say how un-knowledgable some are, I mean, I could use my 880 blending arpeggios and stuff, but how I play or use the sound, people ask, YO! YOU GOT THAT FROM THE TRITON RIGHT" wrong!

or YO! THAT SAMPLE IS ILL WHERE DID YOU LIFT THAT -- I played it but it's how I play it that makes it sound as if it was a sample.

Oh and this kills me, "YO! YOUR DRUMS ARE ILL, YOU USED THE SP12 OR MPC3000 RIGHT" wrong all sequenced on CUBASE


--bottom line-- Knowing the intricate part of your gear, opens a bottomless pit of creativity, I love mixing it up, when people say
"You got that sound from here, You got that from there, or you used this piece of gear didnt you"

I'm like NO, NO, and NO, but the bottom line after listening to it is
------YOU LIKE IT------ so no matter what I used
------YOU LIKE IT------ bottom line
 
Well said, ms'1224', rae' 28, and moLeK'.

It doesn't matter what you use, per se. It's HOW you use it.
 
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