Machine Favourites: Ian Pooley on his MPC 3000 Pt. 1 (Electronic Beats TV) 

MPC 3000 is such a beautiful machine - aesthetically, operationally, and sonically.

fantastic. i've been telling everyone for 20 years to get an MPC to make great house and techno and here Ian shows us why that rings true. even in this age of DAWs and plentiful budget gear, an MPC as the heart of your studio will connect you to the music in a very different way than mouse driving your way thru a DAW. Thanks Ian and EBTV for sharing these videos.

Woa, this dude just whips up a brilliant house track and he’s just playing around with it.

Pooley is all up my crates,with his great tracks...

That VGA output!!!!!!!!

Just when I swore to myself to not procrastinate today, this comes in …

Ian Pooley’s ‘Chord Memory’ is one of the great classics in electronic music. What a treat to see some of his workflow. Would love to see more of this, even just a stream watching a new track being born and completed.

Mr G is another master of the MPC. Would love to see him making a track on one.

This made me really appreciate my Akai Force! It's so easy to get overwhelmed on the Force, this video really helped me re-look at the basics of what the Force can do. Great job Ian. Thank you for this.

An absolute legend....been listening for years and finally glad to get this video!!

It's always a great pleasure to watch Ian Pooley. Thank you!

Golden. Calssic for years to come! thx Telekom

This makes me miss my MPC3000. Lovely videos, great to see!

Still my favourite mpc to this day and I have many. The 3000 is special!

Thanks IAN, awesome to see how it was done back in the days and still today :)

Thanks Ian, couldn't put my finger on any particular tune but those beats brought back memories. Always a good night when a flyer said live set (mpc).

Great video. Always great to listen and watch legend - Ian Pooley!

Wow! That was nice! We want more of machine favorite! 👍👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻

the best tutorial I had ever seen on mpc, pure gold

Since so many years Ian is such a creative, nice and polite musician and producer! Stay healthy and keep up that great work Ian!

Thanks for this video! Loving it!

Ian, I love your studio and such a nice approach how you create you music.

Ian, keep the MPC 3000 videos coming, much appreciated!

Master at work

It is Wonderful to watch a Artist at work.

Love you Ian huge inspiration to me, thank you for breaking it down, much appreciated and much respect for your craft

Great job Ian! Really enjoyed seeing how the 3000 is used by him.

I would love watching him creating a complete track, to know how he would structure the sequences, making fills, variations and transitions on the mpc!

Thank you for this video!

That is Roger linn's best creation. It's a beast. Especially with the Vailixi upgraded ram capacity. You took great care of it. It looks clean like my 2000. Bought my 2000 in 1997. It still looks brand new. One thing I like about the 3000: There is 1 physical single function button for every single menu. Which makes the 3000 intuitive af. Akai started putting that double function button (hold shift and press other key bs) in 2000 and newer MPCs. Which was their way of adding fewer buttons (56 physical single function buttons in 3000 vs 41 physical buttons in 2000). My 2000 has 12 buttons that require that double function button bs. Including "sample," "song," "disk,' "program," "midi/sync," "mixer," "other," "punch," "trim," "assign," "start," and "end." There is no "help," "timing correct," "count in," "seq edit," "step edit," "edit loop," "simul seq," or "wait for key" button. Some of those buttons are virtual buttons that are accessed through menu with cursor. Others, such as "simul seq," dont exist. Just imagine if Akai removed all of the "commands" physical single function buttons in the 3000 and relocated them as double function buttons under each of your "data entry" physical buttons. Then added a shift key to access the double function buttons. That's WTF Akai did for the 2000. Bahahahahaha. Despite that bs, I still wouldnt trade my 2000 for a 3000. I cant deal with the lack of wave editing and lack of other upgrades (.wav supported files, less power consumption, less weight, brighter screen, digital output, etc). Although I wish it had the vga output and foot switch outputs.

Amazing video! love it 💣👍🏼💥

bigggg up for the vid!! heaps of useful info ty!

That is an absolute banger!

Good video thanks, I love this channel 🎶🎵

Wonderful. This guy is great!

Good stuff. Thanks Ian

I recently bought a MPC 1000 and upgraded to JJ and good pads. This is awesome for me, thank you.

FANTASTIC!

Awesome video! Makes we wanna get one for that swing alone!

Killer video !!!

The man is truly a legend. I have an MPC 2000xl I've been trying to learn so this has come at the perfect time.

Great Video. Thanks Ian & ebTv! One thing though: the MPC 3000 has not analogue but digital filters

Nice deconstruction of your workflow, Ian!

Thank you!

I have a huge respect for this man !! So much tracks he did with a lot of vibe .. More pls :)

Ian Pooley and MPC 3000 is like Butter and Bread

super nice thank you for sharing that

Thank you very much!

Nice visual showcase man. 👍🏽👍🏽

Love the beat

Man thank you for the video at least I learned something about the Mpc 3000

All his great drum fills and squelching delayed synths, you can see how they came about.

This episode made me buy an MPC. Not the 3000 but a 1000. I use now it for my external gear. Wish I got on it sooner. One of the best hardware sequencers around. Compliments my SE Engine well too.

This kind of nice videos make me want to collect all of the models of MPC........

No hay nada que hacer el sonido del mpc 3000 es el mejor , gracias Ian por tu tutorial !!

One of the best...

Einer der besten Maschinen, hab auch eine mit 3 Samplern aus der S Reihe.

a legend!

GREAT waiting for mpc 2000 edition

Legendary!

He is a Legend!

Fantastic video! Dope to see peeps making house on physical samplers. Another one who does it all on the 3000 is Phil Weeks. I dunno if I could master it like that, I'm quite spoiled with my Toraiz SP-16. I do see alot of parallels between the 2 machines though. Thanks for sharing this video! 👌👍🙏🎶🎵🎧🎛🙌💯

Great Tutorial. Just picked up a LTD edition to sit along side my 2k classic.

Thanks!

Ian was nice enough to speak to me recently about his experiences using an older MPC. I was questioning about whether to either incorporate one into my workflow, or adapt my workflow around the MPC. Now there’s a video for people like me!

please more videos going in depth! and how do you expand from a MPC idea/concept/jam into a full track. please :D

Those drums are so crunchy! ooof

Awesome 😎 🙌🙏🙏

I’m new to the world of mpc. I got a 2500 recently and am so happy to see a modern video on workflow.

Definitely do a "how I did my live-show edition" too, please!

he makes it look so easy

Legend

Awesome

Brilliant stuff, Ian. You really can’t beat the swing on the old MPC’s!!! would love to see how you go about the rest of the process after this :-)

Man, the 3000 may be the best MPC of all time. Dare we say Mr Linn shot his load with this one! The minimalistic design of the interface is perfectly focused on "where the musician might go while in the middle of creation" destinations and not "cool shit for live performance" buttons. The amount of FX built are just enough for getting a nice sound with just enough space for out-the-box additions.

Great. I do almost the same at Amiga with Tracker software. The problem was only the sample size to put one track at one 3,5" floppy disk.

It's one of a kind

exactly what I was looking for. Producing house on an mpc. thanks!

KiNK x Ian Pooley B2B would be next level

It's like you are waiting hip hop beats when you see mpc in a video, but here is house music, that's funny

Its totally wild to see the technological leap that's been made with the newest evolution of MPC 's, particularly the MCP ONE.

Dope

This is informative and inspiring. Great video!

thank you ian, what about the mpc live/one? same sound and swing?

I would love to see more akai mfc42 and space echo in the next one w ian !

Big man!

MORE MPC PLEASE!!!!

Very inspiring video and the isolated screen raises it. Does the MPC 3000 have a video output or how did you add that effect?

"Two Thumbs Up!" 😎

Well… nostalgic! ;-)

I love the workflow, the machine and the music which results from it. Especially the filter stuff is great, combined with the MPC3000 groove. I use a MPC 60 and have bought a AKAI S3200 to have the filters I miss in the MPC60. Still working on the best method to use the filters, and of course the groove is a bit more sloppy, as the MPC 60 is more "laid back" than the MPC3000. Ian, do you have any experience doing the same stuff on a mpc60, regarding groove and tightness?

wait you had them vga on the 3k?

Hi Ian just wanna ask you if the midi output a b c d of the Mpc are also a midi thru thanks

Is there some oldschool live set from Ian pooley in that style? Please post below if you know something. That is so groovy!

Is there a way for MPC to play back unquantized midi that you've tapped in?

Love this, but a wee correction: filter on the 3K is digital, not analogue.

What do you think of the X? And Live2?

How did you capture the MPC display?

Great vid, filter is digital on those though.

Where did u get the blue screen from,my first mpc 3000 came the vga and when I hook it too a computer screen,the screen was black and green.how get yours too too be blue and white like the display on the 3000.thank u Holla Back