This generation of MPC (Live/2/X/One/Key) are somewhat cursed by what a lot of people associate previous generations of MPC with. This gen are DAWs in a box with a control surface. The MPC Key makes it more obvious by clearly being a workstation keyboard. And that of course means there is a learning curve. Sure you can knock out a simple loop in a few minutes when you first start playing with them, but you have to put in some time to learn how it all works if you want to get good at it and be able to use it for more than simple boom bap stuff.
You are right. I'm not musician but I love music bought my MPC 3 months ago for some reason I make beats like Jack which not very easy on the ears tbh. I always lay down the drums first but falcon did the opposite. Also having continous loop with heavy sound will take over the melody and make it little irritating which what happened with Jack but they both did great job!!
Amazing job Jack and Falcon! One of the most notable things about this experiment is the smiles. The MPC in general is a good tool to create music and making music should be fun. In some aspects any tool has it’s limitations, but I think the MPC with enough effort can certainly make any kind of music in its own environment. However if you combine the MPC with a DAW, the possibilities become endless.
I loved this! So good! 💙12:30 - I thought Chris was laying down some mad Questlove polyrhythms here! 😮 Turns out he was just testing the kit sounds! haha
The new MPC OS can do just about anything a DAW can do. It's not just for hip-hop. I use my MPC One for synthwave. Your samples can be up to 5 minutes long and it has an onboard track recorder -- 8 tracks midi, 8 tracks audio. You can plug anything into it to record audio. If you want to record classical violin, go for it. There are great effects and mastering tools built in, synth plugins etc. It really is more like a hardware studio in a box. I don't use my DAW anymore actually.
Mpc is absolutely not just for beat making! It has serious midi implementation! I control a few hardware and drum machines and also use plugs to make all sort of music with my mpc one! I'll show you for some Mike and Ike's...or not it's cool
It's so unfortunate that everyone thinks the mpcs are only for hip hop! They were originally designed with country music in mind. I've done hip hop, alt rock, and classic rock on mine, and plan to move to other genres in the future!! They're just so much easier to use than a daw for somebody with an instrumental background rather than a production background
That was epic, you guys did a great job and I loved that both of you went in your own direction. The falcons keys were sophisticated and cool but Jacks beats stole the show. Amazing what you did in just a few minutes 😎 shows what the kit can do if you have some time on your hands to really delve into it
Sorry to add a ton of work for you guys but this was entertaining 😎 can we get a comparison with your guys actual baseline, I mean in terms of what can you do with a midi controller and a DAW that you know in 5 minutes… then maybe daw and controller that’s alien to you be worth knowing these three things….if the mpc is a workstation killer in theory the alien daw+controller should give similar results on output… will they? Might be good feedback for AKAI as well let them know what’s intuitive and what’s not (the different ways jack & the falcon got to the drums might suggest they should work on this?)
@@garyoneill5648 I think Jack is used to the old way of finding sounds on the MPC. The sounds menu is brand new and after what I saw its much better than the old way.
The MPC is often used to make R&B, Hip Hop, Dance, Trance, and EDM. Yet, you can make whatever you have the skill and imagination to make. You might use a DAW to make other songs, but prefer to use it for everything. Ableton Live is last mile stuff for me. You can use YT to see others using MPCs for all kinds of things.
