Ski Beatz Goes in on MPC Stems! 

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I always support ski. About 10 years ago first started making beats, he did a tutorial on Ableton about chopping samples and using machine.. I couldn't get it right. sent him a message, the brotha called me 10 mins later and walked me through it... Forever a fan

Yea he is a beast! Replacing the sample audio with your own sounds is an old school gem from the 80s and 90s. We would take the audio of the drum tracks from the two inch tape machine and feed each track into an audio to MIDI box of the computer. Then we’d assign the new MIDI data to a MIDI channel and track within the sequencer. From there the sky was the limit on what sounds we chose. That same technology was then used and is still used as drum mic triggers. Awesome stuff! Ski Beats is pulling on all his years of experience AND making it look so easy….crazy fast too! Great video! I’ve watched so many of them and you helped me on my research to get the MPC live. Keep up the great work! Thanks for all that you do!

It’s just that changing out the buttons on your mpc gives it your own unique style and look

He put in work on that. The fact he added his own twist to make stems work for him, that was dope.

About to fire up my MPC and this video will be on repeat until I can pull this off myself!

He did kill it ..but that's the difference of somebody who really does something DIFFERENT with THE MACHINE . LETS NOT FORGET... all it is is originality and that will always be dope

The export to create event was genius too🎉

Thats was dope Ave…👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

I know you needed a self care break. I understand I deal with depression. Your content is part of my life line. If I wasn’t in this space I might have ended it already

You cant beat a good old day out digging vinyl ❤

Ski Beats is a genius. a craftsman.

He blew my mind with the drums breh! I had to watch the video 3 times to get that truck.

Good Afternoon to you ☀️🍃 I purchased one of your courses the other day. Thanku for responding to me on X. I appreciate you. Im going to master this MPC. Have a blessed day ☕️🎵🎼🎧🎤

Ave first, thank you for what you have and continue to do for the community and culture. Secondly, I’ve been an admirer of Ski Beats expertise and body of work for decades. Man, this brother dropped yet another gem with this one fuhsho - bravo, job well done!👍🏾

i love how the brother doesn't hide how he does things. newcomers can really learn from him. skibeatz a legend.

He’s one of the only older producers who doesn’t hate keep! Just brought one of his drum kits & it didn’t disappoint

Yooo! that was a nice lesson by one of illest producers. good lookin' Sir💯 🔥

Man he's smooth asf with it... Dope. Thanks for showcasing the homie and sharing the sauce Ave...

Glad to see my guy ski beats still rocking out. He been doing his thing a long time. Greensboro NC stand up. Guilty county in tha building. 🫡💯👑🔥🫵🏼

Yo this was so dope ave,ski killed it.great video

This was on point. I saw the "Create Events" function in another video but couldn't remember which one it was. Good thing I saw this

WOW! To do what Ski did, I would program a drum pattern then shift each note step by step to match the loops drum pattern. This was a DOPE tip!!!

Ayee! Gotta swipe those gems when they drop em. Peace Ave.

Wooooh ❤️‍🔥 I was really thinking if a mpc was important but you just confirmed

Yo!!!!!!!!!, I can’t sleep now after seeing the stealth beat Jack flipping with your own sounds, that’s 4king Genius, that’s like robbing the IMF, and creating a trillion dollar bit coin for 100 dollars and happy meal. 👀👁️

The creating event and replacing the drums with your own!! Crazy!! I been rocking the MPC Studio and it was just time to upgrade! So my MPC studio one plus will be here tomorrow! That polarity gem is for us old-school heads who really understand what he said Back in the days when I used to rock the MPC2000xl and the ASR-10 reversing the polarities was always something we did. Yeah I'm an old school head and I'm like wait MPC has Bluetooth and wifi now?!? lol He does a similar groove hack for Ableton live which is dope but nothing like what he did on the MPC! Good point on the stems, I believe they made stem not perfect on purpose! Dope cook-up and dope content! Have a great day!

That was dope, 🫡 to Ski Beatz da god

gems dropped, I'm definitely gonna make a note on that. as far as the stems sound i think its just right .

WOW! That's a very interesting way to "steal" a beat. Hehehe. Seriously though, I just learned something I didn't know about these new MPCs. I didn't know you could create midi events based on a sample you just chopped and that you could get the machine to create these events to follow the same groove/pattern as the sample, provided you get a perfect loop as he mentioned. Take the generated midi sequence, swap the drums with your drums, and there you have it. SWEET!!!

So basically, he takes how we sample in Ableton and does it on the MPC

The equivalent of using stems now was using midi files to jack the individual melodies and chords and substituting them with your sounds and then chopping that. Same vide from the sample without dealing with the audio from your record. You could also layer the chops from your records on top for texture. That’s how I use the stem feature. I isolate what I want to take, then use harmony to melody (Ableton) or melodyne and take chords or whatever and keep it moving. People are just lazy and want everything instant. Stop making chicken nuggets and get back to making gumbo. Thanks Ave for always sharing with the community.

I got to watch Ski do this live in one of his Dolo classes. This dude is the absolute truth when it comes to music. Always dropping gems and teaching.

YEAH...DOPE YAL!!!

That groove jack method saves so much time. Ski beatz is a legend. That beat was fire 🔥

Yo, this guy here is basically reading my mind and I need to get in touch with him that that was dope. That’s what these things are supposed to do I like that.

That was dope.

What he did was sick and clever…….nice vid ✅💯🔥‼️

I've done this type of stuff in my DAW but not in my MPC! This is cool for sure!

Thanks for the class

That was dope

Good vid Ave! Yo, Ski, i need that tutorial in slo mo big cuz! 😅

Reminds me of the 90's with my MPC 60. but MPC One let's you layer. With honesty MPC ONE IS A BEAST (so is Ski) . nuff love from the UK

Been doing the same with recycle when it came out. Slice. Bring slice to same note. Replace note with sound. So you keep the groove as shown, but the sounds you want. Stems of course add all the possibilities, so we have great times ahead

I learned reverse polarity from he who shall not be named. Probably the best thing he taught me. 💯🙏🏼✌🏼

If there were stems back in the 80’s and 90’s one can only imagine how dope the creative limited could have been.

He gave a few as you said diamond gems and I’d love to see more of his work flow

Wooooow the groove jack was a GEM! Techniques for days

He basically did that without Midi! He has mastered the MPC if you ask me

I've gotta study this one again!!

Ski bitz!!!! Is a Beast!!!!💣how he did that??? 😲

This was damn near a master class

Can you make a tutorial on the techniques he used? Didn't get it

2:19 DJ Quick said he had this tech in the early 2000’s. He said it in multiple interviews. Everyone said he was capping though….makes you wonder 🤔

AMAZING!

Bruh he needs to make his own masterclass and put a price on it. I’d scoop it up quick. Diamond hands down good looking fam❤❤🙏🙏

Ignorance does not mean a person does not know in fact it means they do know but choose to ignore hence the Ignor in Ignorance. To believe that means you don't know because you have to believe it cause you don't know.

In Ableton, you can get a groove of a track and apply that unique quantization to your track. There are pools of grooves where you can apply that feeling to your drums or anything. I'm not a MPC guy but I'm guessing it's a technology that if isn't present on the MPC, it's a software thing so it could be added if they wanted.

Finally 😃 Reverse Polarity Phase for precise separation of any element for music

Recycle does that aswell ya jack the events and replace with your own samples used to do a similar thing in logic audio when it was windows based but we would jack the groove convert to midi events and turn it into a quantize template

pretty sick

You can do this in Maschine as well. By using the midi notes from the sequence of a drum loop.

Man he apart tht history a real boss wit it I would be honored to collab or tap into more knowledge & college frm him

love Ski Beatz, I still use his Ableton "slice to MIDI" preset!

DOPE COOKUP:)

Dope 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👊🏽

Fire video keep it goin 🫡

Wow 🤯

That was fly how do we add those rolls and break down

Regarding processing power needed to do stem separation in standalone: the unit had Internet connection, so akai could make it a cloud based process. Until recently, phones did that for processing voice activated stuff. Newer processors to do that in the device are only just coming on the market

Yo Ave, can you please explain in more detail what he was doing at 3:50 and how he was doing it? 🙏

My A.D.D. does not allow for such things.... Two seconds in,and I'm off to watch television!!

He’s dope, easily one of the most underrated producers ever. Him and Lord Finesse are my 2 favorites that nobody I talk to know about. Y’all reading this look up Locksmith Devil Lasso if you ain’t heard it. One of Ski’s best beats And whatever he did on the MPC, I need to watch again so I really understand. I know it was some next level shit, but with how quick he was doing shit I got kinda lost

Nice!!!!!

To me, if you're sampling just to put drums and other sounds over the samples, stems from virtual dj, and serato, is good enough for now. I prefer DJ style of using stems cause it's how I learned to produce. This era is like a dream cause I did this stuff before, but not this damn easy! I can make beats in minutes with new DJ programs that have stems. Just watching Ski sample then stop, and change drums, etc. took too long for me, and I had to fast forward🤣. I like to stay in the groove once I'm there

I like watching these videos and mass appeals ..makes me feel confident in what im already doing..jus in a different format

GEMMMMZ 💎💎💎

Man, I’m sad that a lot of that went over my head. Looks like I’ll need to watch this a few more times.😂

SKI BEATSKI!! GAT DAMNIT!

I think you should invent a new powerful MPC or have MPC combined with apple for a more powerful MPC that can handle STEMS😁💪🏽👍🏽

They could use the same algorithm as on computer version it would just take much longer to process so they should just let you select a quality level for your separation and then you can wait it out if ur cool with that, otherwise take the lower quality.

dope

Life under the scoop

How do you feel about Serato Studio as a beat production DAW?

I watched this before , still didn’t process wtf just happened shot out to ski legend!

Can you do an In depth on those diamonds and gems he dropped in the video? Thats if skibeatz is cool with it. ::looks around the room:: Thanks Ave! 🤙

Dope🔥🔥🔥🔥

I didn't really understand what he meant at 3:45 can someone explain how this works.

Next MPC should have a NPU processor. That could make stems in standalone

It was a dope video... but if you've made beats for a while , some of tge things he said you already knew, but I've never saw anyone slide the samples to the pads... that one idea threw me back... but would that idea work in today's music... cause beats today sound way different than that 90s style...

idk man. I haven't bought serato sample yet I'm still with Maschine but it seem like Akai is ahead.

This method of drum replacement actually works better with beats that don’t have much groove or swing. If you have a heavily swung beat to chop and you chop by transient at the beginning of each drum hit. Once you create new program with events the events will all be ON THE GRID, with none of the original groove. You have to then dial the groove back in with swing until it kind of matches the original, and nudge hits yourself. Chopping by region instead of before each transient will preserve the original groove but make drum replacement slightly trickier as again, it’s not on the grid

Do the older mpc guys do finger drumming?

btw that was Litlte Beaver in the sample.

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A true MPC or now in dayz Beat machine bible...

@ave do you think stems will be improved over time

jus got an mpc tryna start sampling i chopped my sample and converted them to a drum program but when i try to play my chops with the pads but no sound comes out👎🏾 any tips ? Tuff video 😎

Yo Ave can u break this down for your students?

The are Old Sp 1200 gems he droppin