Producers today: This synth part is made with serum, a vintage chorus plugin, valhalla reverb, a tape emulation, and soothe to filter out the resonances. Then I layered it with 49 other synths all panned in different directions. Producers in 1988: 909 and 303 go screeeeeeech
The MPC Key 61 is a strange Frankenstein's monster that has kinda wrecked the existing MPC line. It also doesn't make any sense to buy one because you could get one of the cheaper ones and a cheap USB 61 key keyboard and you have the same thing without all the expensive plugins that don't improve anything. Why do you need the MPC key sample libraries when the main point of the MPC has always been sampling? It doesn't make any sense.
There is a lot of high quality, free plugins out there. Apart from ones you've mentioned I'd like to recommend Full Bucket (a lot of Korg synths emulations), Surge XT and freebies from NI (Komplete Start) and Roland (Concerto) are nothing to scorn about.
@@perrypelican9476 English is not my first language, whatever you say I guess. Another great one: Cardinal is a free and open source version of VCV. In other words - great stuff if you want to try modular synthesis for free.
Thank you for your English content. English is a constantly evolving language made up of many other languages. It's a mess of contextual and conflicting rules. Speaking English as a second language is like trying to hit a moving target. Your closing statement was very insightful!
"We humans are good at making excuses..." That's um... yeah, that's pretty much right on target. Don't forget the companion rule: We humans are, well, pretty lazy." :D
What is most remarkable is how you're making such complex music with a 4GB RAM Macbook from way back when. I'm on the hunt for a new laptop (for work) and I'm thinking I need 32GB RAM and a high end processor. Then I come here and see that you're doing what I want to do on lesser hardware. Thanks for the inspiration
@@playpm I flat out refuse to use cpu hogs unless they have a really good reason to be one. Some plugins are just way too bloated, especially those from big companies. Free (and open source) plugins are the answer to that. Most of my go-to plugins are freeware or even better, open source, with a few exceptions which are commercial products.
@@playpm absolutely, people will simp for the latest plugins, that do nothing but eat up 50% of a modern computer's CPU and add 200ms of latency to your session
I bought the Nektar SE49 two years ago when I decided to take piano lessons and used LABS soft piano sounds. I figured the 49 keys were enough to learn chords and play some melodies at the same time, and the spacing between keys were close enough to the real thing. A year and a half later sold it and bought a digital piano with weighted keys (Korg D1) only when it was clear that I wasn't going to stop taking classes.
My brother bought me an SE49 last year as a belated b'day present. Pretty solid feel for one of the least expensive "name brand" controllers out there.
Some of your videos are fun to watch, but this time you get it completely wrong. I am using Logic Pro on Mac and iPad and I have a master keyboard too. Most of my music I produce on this gear, but since I got the MPC key 61 I often find myself preferring to work with this device. Why? Because it got all I need built in, sound quality is pretty good (24 bits) and it is very easy to use, if you get used to its ways. What you get for the price is pretty awesome. In Germany it‘s around 1650,00 Euros. I don‘t see any alternatves on the market for the type of music I am composing. I want some keys and some physical drumpads. I do not know many musicians I respect fumbling around on a touchscreen. There is a reason people choose a physical approach to making music and there is nothing awkward about it. And not everybody likes to spend hours (days?) on figuring out how to put together thousand lousy pieces of software to get results. AKAI‘s pricing is actually quite fair. You got to pay for convenience and practicability. If you get a kick out of wasting your time on playing around with garage band and constantly crashing plug ins getting horrible sound quality output in the end. Just go for it. But please stop trolling instrument manufacturers. This is the real scam!
Hey man. Your videos are amazing! I have taken so many of your suggestions already. Can you please show us how to replace the Hologram Microcosm Pedal for free?
The Spitfire stuff is really really worth looking into. They also have a lot of free VSTs for more specific instruments. Sure it doesn't have all of the features from the Komplete instruments, but in terms of sound quality, it really is worth seeing whether the Spitfire suffices.
If you're handy with a soldering iron and a schematic, another good way to set yourself up cheap is to watch for good deals on broken gear. I've scooped up a Keylab49 and an old Alesis QS8.1 for nearly-free level prices and repaired them, and by all rights I should not need to buy any more keyboards for the rest of my life. :D Oh, another good free FM plugin, for folks who might find Dexed a bit overwhelming, is ExaktLite. It's a 4-op as opposed to 6-op, but with extra waveforms besides sinewaves, so it's essentially a TX-81 rack module in software. And for a good virtual analog, there's the venerable Synth1 plugin that's been around for well over a decade now. It's more-or-less a Nord Lead copy in a free plugin, with great flexibility and over 10,000 presets available for it.
I'm learning how to solder this fall at my local community college I'm interested in learning how to do this. How do you typically get a hold of schematics and where did you learn how to do this?
@@aidanmcmahan3546 In some cases you can just download 'em from the manufacturer, but other times you might have to contact their support organization and see if you can talk em into sending you some. Often times problems are not hard to spot and/or rectify. In the case of my QS8.1, it was just that the jumper cable from the AC transformer to the main board was unplugged (!). The Arturia's problem was purely mechanical - the keybed was made of rubbish plastic - and just had to be swapped for a new one. One guy posted a vid of how he fixed a Roland drum machine by finding a cracked solder joint on the power adapter jack and resoldering it.
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Not sure if you own logic or not, but it’s worth the money if you don’t. I barely use it but still put the money down for it because there’s a lot of value there for the money. I appreciate your videos though!
nothing to do with mpc61 but a request if you allow it: i would be interested if you know about free granular. I won't buy Hologram microcosm or Tasty chips Gr1, but i feel it's a way of making sound i don't have at all as far as i know with garage band. Guess some VST may do it... Anyway it 's a great great channel , concept and execution you did! Thanks a lot
Dear playpm, I can now say you are my therapist, when I first saw the akai mpc key61 all I can think was GAS, saw Scot torch promoting the key61 -> GAS. Something changed in me I see top audio gear and I don't have the rush to get it. Thanks!
Traded in my Launchkey 25 (soon after getting the 37 and when already having a 49key and 3 MPKs (bought 3 to customise by switching parts)) for a video game (WWE22)... and I don't play that either
Hi Michael, thank you for your advice. I'm 61yrs old . I come from the old days of analogue recording. But I'm trying to keep up. I've just finished a track in GB only 2 instruments alot of DSP. Is there anyway I can send it you. I used a GB ehu Chinese instrument and I would like an opinion to release or not. I hope there is a way. I respect your ideas and think they are fantastic. Regards Douglas
“Do you even play keyboard?” Lol at least 50% of people who want to buy this will have to admit no. Not that I am one to talk with three midi keyboards 🤣
Haha, we are cool, I'm preparing another form of therapy by learning how to code right now, the release is soon, I'll be back with harder strikes then.
@@playpm Is it learning Linux coding? I keep waiting for someone more skilled than me to figure out how to create custom vsts that can be downloaded to mpc in standalone, or figure out how to morph those free vsts into mpc. Maybe even be able to customize the vsts that ship with mpc. Just wishful thinking :)
Numa Player FTW! I downloaded it to every computer i own when i discovered it. *American english is my adopted language. You speak Cantonese, Mandarin or...?
