J Dilla "Don't Cry" recreation - Boss SP-303 

I play guitar, and honestly this seems a lot more difficult to me since you can't play according to a scale, so it's extremely non-intuitive

​@@Sarcasticallyinchargmaybe im wrong, but I dont really get why this should be hard. He has 4 different banks, each with 8 different sample chops, that means he just has to remember the sequence of the sample chops played

​@@Sarcasticallyincharg its hard to make it sound this smooth though

Yeah shredding the guitar is’nt that hard either you just have to remember where to put your fingers… hard to make it that smooth though hahahah 😆

@@einarthorgeirsson728 respectfully, comparing playing guitar and a few buttons is stupid

anyone that knows the chops knows

I started learning about sampling this year... So your wish is coming true.

​@@smiauuright if you know you know!!!!

Anyone who samples or uses hardware knows this is nuts

oh people are very aware as a matter of fact dont cry is the only dilla beat most people know its hilarious 😂 its a pretty mediocre beat compared to the rest of his catalogue and not even in the top of donuts you circlejerk people are very annoying 😴

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Not at all 😂

@@emilymiller1853shut, no one cares about what you think. This is mad impressive.

@@Lee-One sure thing Lee 👏

Pretty cool to run into you over here

that song was made on the sp303 during Dilla's days on hospital :)

@@grimreaper7250nah it was made on protools, that rumor got debunked in dilla time

@@vcbf101honestly man, i’ve seen so much controversy over that. who knows if the book is true. In an interview the author said some things were interpreted and might not be true

@@vcbf101it was made on the 303. He was in a hospital bed

Chill, that’s literally what most of us did circa 1997.

​@@discowolf25Yeah and it's impressive as hell.

Sorry this so late but what is a bank ? I can see it in the machine but i dont know what it is and cant find anything to explain.

@@Fretlesswash thats ok. Basically its just like mini libraries of sounds. If you have 16 pads for example. Each pad holds one sound. So you have what is called banks which holds multiple libraries of 16 pad variations which you can switch between so you have access to more sounds if that makes sense?

@@Koedean Oh ok so if you had 8 pads and you wanted to use 16 sounds you would need 2 banks, right?

@@Fretlesswash thats exactly right.

@@Koedean Thank you for explaining, appreciate it.

He made it on the 3000

@Swxft yeah but I read he did a lot of this album from his hospital bed where he usef a 303 and a 404

@@RallyCar08 i think dillatime confirmed he did a lot of it on a laptop in pro tools but i could be wrong about that

@RallyCar08 yea that was an urban legend that PBWolf & Egon debunked years ago. Most of donuts was done when Dilla first got to LA. The album was in its final mix stages by the time he was hospitalized

He did it in protools.

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You were right the first time, if you have the chance, check out the book “Dilla Time”! The author clarifies JD produced all of donuts 🍩 n Pro Tools alone. Nevertheless, beautiful work recreating on the 303!! ☮️ 🌎 ❤️ 🌊 🍩

@stillmaticz847 yeah I read it....... also found out that peanut butter wolf gave dilla a New SP404 & not a 303 like the myth implies....

@@stillmaticz847i loved finding this out. it’s easy to worship the gear but the book really told a story of dilla constantly finding new technology, pushing it to its limits, and then looking for the next thing to master. he was not a purist about the gear

⁠@@lil-j-waters🙌💥 Dilla Dog

​@@stillmaticz847Who wrote the book. Unless the author is Ma Dukes herself or his brother I dont know how factual it could be

Not always needed

"Dilla would be proud" is the highest level of praise you can give a beat maker.

He didn't make this song on an MPC, he used the same gear the youtuber used

​@@47AdriRamiAKAETHGyou guys really believe everything you read? Instead of using our brain?

@@miguel5652 honestly i cant find info about whether dilla used an MPC3000 or an sp 303

@@carbon98 try to search in your brain

Amen RIP to Dilla 💯🙏

Ya fr

This doesn’t seem like how he would’ve made it. He probably had a sampler for the chopping and a whole separate drum layer. That’s the producer way right?

@@EASFromTheWest yes he had an mpc 3000 Le

@@redhoodm2227the whole donuts album was created with an sp 303 in the hospital, for every other project he primarily use the mpc tho

@@EASFromTheWestthis is really close to how he would’ve had to make it on the sp 303, he may have resampled stuff and created loops though

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Yeah I'm almost positive Dilla did this one on his MPC3000 LE, I literally didn't have enough pads to do the intro.

@@Cats-Eye Yeah, the legend that he did all of Donuts with a 303 on his death bed is very exagerated. He did a lot the beats before his hospitalisation and he used Pro Tools a lot in the process. But I mean who cares? Still one of the best album I ever heard. And this cover is super good. Insane.

Read dilla time, the book. Donuts was made on pro tools on his laptop mostly. The book also opens up alot of the claims of dilla not using any quantization etc.

@@Cats-Eye wondering how that was even possible since as far as I know, on the 3000, you can only cut off 3 pads at a time. People worked around it with th enote off feature, but you would have to release a pad right when you hit the other one. A track like this would be really hard to do precisely quickly.

@47 Everything I read somewhere it’s 2 songs but I don’t believe that? One of them is definitely One for Ghost (on Ghostface’s Fishscale album) and another is definitely Stepson of the Clapper as that was a chopped up version of a beat he did for De La Soul (Verbal Clap)

Ya fr tho