How I make My Drum Loops | Akai Mpc X 

The double hi hat tip is amazing! Hope life has been bringing you lemons Marlow.

I say all that to say, This video alone has the potential to take someone’s beats to the next level just like that if they apply these techniques properly. This video marlow is so Important.

You have THAT page every producer is looking for. Where you touch on the very small things that play a huge role in boom nap and lofi hip hop that most ppl starting out wouldn’t know how to research. But you touch on it all bro. Your page is such a gem and this is me giving you your flowers and saying thank you.

Bro…. Finding your videos is magic to me. You give so selflessly. I haven’t even applied any of it yet. Just listening and taking notes. I wish you all the success man. I can’t wait to apply all you’ve taught me.

Love finding this older tutorials....Thanks so much Marlow...!!

This channel is my favorite beatmaking channel. Should have a million subscribers.

Some of the best drum sounds and techniques. Amazing work! This will be a game changer for many, myself inlcluded

Among the best videos on RU-vid for drums and the mpc.

Very informative vid!! Love it!! Much love Marlow!!

Double hi hat! Sick tip for creating your own. Thank you, per usual. I just started teaching a friend how to create on the MPC. Next session tomorrow. Thank you for everything you share with us!

Great explanation of everything. I just got my X back ,and started smashing pads with no feeling. This!!! Brought me backk. Thanks brother.

Thx for dropping the knowledge on your techniques. DEFINITELY beneficial as there is always different methods to learn!!

Man what an awesome beat! Amazing tutorial also.

Drumz be smooth as butter&syrup flooding hot 🔥🥞🥞🥞🥞🔥

Ps: this is one of your best tutorials of all time... and I’ve consumed practically all of them 😆 I’m going to look into the sequencer tonight after I wrap up my radio show. Good stuff!

Great that you are sharing this!

You always inspire me to jump back on my mpc and experience sounds every time i feel uninspired. Thank you 🙏🏽

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

So that is how it's done... thank you sir. One of the top tutorials.

Double-hihats technique is dope! I like how you can easily change the feel by adjusting the offset 💣🤙

Dope as always

i learn something new from every one of your videos, both about sampling in general and the MPC live/x software. thanks!

Thanks for sharing the knowledge and experience.

Bro I was legit gunna message you soon and ask for a more in depth explanation about this. But to my surprise you're already on it! we appreciate more then you know Marlo! Thanks for all the knowledge and teachings brother, stay blessed! 🙏

Great Video Marlow!! Happy New Year!!!! I love how you incorporate double hihats in your production!! I've tried it before on the MPC 200xl. It definetely gives your production who different groovy feel!!!

Always good and effective 😀

Just subscribed to your channel. This is the best MPC guidance channel. Period. You're da man!

Great work ❤

Good job bro!! Tus baterías tienen un toque único!, Un abrazo locura!!

Nice drums workflow ! Thanks for sharing with the fam! Singers Unlimited on MPS cult label - love that record! 🙏

Like the techniques bredren 👍🏾 Thanks for sharing

Bro thank you for the knowledge you give, I’ll take what give and bare fruit 💯

Legend 🔥 🔥 🔥

Inspiring! Big up!

Ricky Tinze brought me here. Marlow made me stay. Your channel is amazing man.

One word... DOPE

Great tips! Thanks

Can’t believe i wasn’t already subscribed! Just want to say thanks for the consistent content. Truly have accelerated my mpc comprehension. 🙏🏿

Thanks Marlow can never thank you enough

So glad I found this channel. Learned so much from this channel. Appreciate you yo. Bows respectfully*

There were a lot of cool tricks here that I'd never even thought of.

that little hihat trick is dope, im steal that ! :)

Cool!!!!!!!!!!

Thankyou for tutorial.

That snare is knockin

Dope.

gope video and great tip on the hi hat..preciate you fam

I’ve started using the enhancer since your low end video and it’s made a huge difference! 🙏🏾

Wow @5:53. That is exactly what we are all trying to sound like.

Blessings brother this work flow for your drums on the X are great, I love that you are very passionate into getting your sound how you want. I have been experimenting for years on the Boom Bap and always good to see how other top beat makers work Love your style ♥️👊🏼

That double Hi-Hat by using sample delay doesn' t work with older MPCs, right? I' m using JJOS2XL and as far as I remember that the program edit does not provide this function.

Do you like using the MPC X? I have the MPC One and really like the layout of the buttons but since I'm using a lot of Korg Gadgets from my iPad, I don't get to use the Q Links as often as I would like. Instead I use the knobs from MPK Mini MK3. The ecosystem is nice but some odd quirks like midi channels don't get summed to a Master bus. You have to bounce it and then assign it to a pad and play the whole thing again if you want to render the full track with everything. But I have to resort to doing it this way because Korg Gadget doesn't have proper sequencer but the modules sound amazing for musical sketches. MPC has a good sequencer and I can use the chord function and experiment with different phat ambient pads. Essential for the music I make. Do you know if there's a way to record audio directly from the headphone port? Any special cables or devices?

I add filters to everything too

Thank you, do you have kits available which I can buy?

Very nice. Cool video!!!!!!!!! But what about phase and low-end frequencies or layering kicks and that phase canceling that may occur, are you avoiding these problems or you don't care?

Can you make a video explaining the difference using a MPC and a DAW?

Can someone touch base more on the difference between the functionality Program Edit/ Samples/ Tab4, "Randomize Screen" as Marlow says in the video. What's the difference between adjusting those parameters on Tab4, vs those of Tab2? From what I understand it to be, any adjustments made in Tab4 will Randomize for that specific function depending on the level set?

Is it possible to do all the things you did on touch screen with only knobs and buttons without touching screen? Or it’s impossible on this akai console?

Do you have a video on how to choose the right kicks and snares

Do you normally make multiple beats under one project? I've thought about doing this to simplify my workflow and sounds i like to use.

I'm still not capable of chosing my own kicks and snares. I usually go to the kits from the MPC expansions and use those drums. Still on that Pad Thai,that never gets old for me! These are amazing tips Marlow. (I think I tried that layering technic following one of your older videos) Thanks man!!

Double HiHat is a good idea. I never even thought about it. Good lookin' kid.

How do you stop the kicks snars from phasing together when layed

Double hi hat trick is so cooool.. where'd you get the kick sound from?

How do you get that lush reverb on the snare?

Owning an MPC1000, I wonder whether it has a comparable feature as the sample offset? Did you own or try a 1000 / 2500 and found such a feature? The only workaround coming to my mind would be to introduce silence right inside the WAV file itself, by resampling it or combining it with a silent wav...

First to comment first to view. Thanks again for teaching me something new.

thx#

Marlow i've been meaning to ask you how many drum samples do you have? I have amassed hundreds but do you have your favourites that you use quite a lot so you dont really need a huge sample library? Cheers.

What's the source of the kick? Built-in? Do you use external drum machines?

I didn’t even know half these settings existed on my MPC X

You got a drum loop pack?

Is there a way to do the delay just in the mpc software without a stand alone joint? I have the ren on the latest software but can’t seem to find a way to add the delay on the layer. I mess with the offset but it doesn’t really give me that delay. Any advise is appreciated 🙏🏾

Hey , Marlow is it possible to do that double hihat technique on an Mpc 2000XL/2500?

how do i get the sequence to start from the top without having to hit locate everytime, its so annoying ...when i start or record the beat should start from the begining not where u stop the sequence at u feel me

I’m going to tweak a lot of my samples. Now I have have an idea how Masada does his cycle kits. 👍🏾

Are your MPC-X's all working fine ? to the owners of MPC-Xs

So where do you get all your drum hits from then? From records?

Your video is good but… a close up of the MPC screen would have been helpful.