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DJ Shadow - Endtroducing +1000
It was not the mpc that made this album legendary, but the time he was spending searching for samples from old vinyls. It took him 2 years before it was finished.
Shadow talks about it at 54min. Great docu.
Please tell me this isn't the case to use it on the akai hardware.
Oh yeah I know it was not the mpc that made the album, I was more saying the limitations of the mpc may have made him focus more on his sample selection etc. it was a mono sampler with 12 seconds of sample time or something like that. He had to sample the L and R channel of every stereo sample and line them up manually
this isn't the case.
ok big surprise here, realtime time stretch is not available on the MPC Live in programs (only audio tracks and clips!!!). Big disappointment for me as this was one of the most alluring things about it for me and was confirmed as having this feature in the Q&A with Akai
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=182255&start=435
from the MPC Live manual:
"Note: The Warp algorithms are very CPU-intensive and can result in audio drop-outs during playback if used too
freely. Be mindful of how (and how often) you use the warp function. You can reduce the CPU resources required
by doing any/all of the following:
• Minimize the amount of pitch adjustment (e.g., the Semi and Fine fields).
• Avoid warping very small track regions.
• Warp as few tracks or track regions as possible (i.e., reduce the number of total number of voices [of the
polyphonic limit] that use the warp algorithm at a given time). "
you work for akai lol 8 tracks is stupid limiting when not plugged into a computer lol glad your happy tho
indulge me for a minute..
I actually have an ipad pro. had it since launch. i have probably 300-400 dollars of music apps on it and i dont even use them at all. im a hardware guy at heart and the LIVE (and X when i get it) are the answers to my needs. i even have cubasis and auria and have not used them once.
I used to have an mpc 2000xl studio which was the center of my workflow but sold it a while ago because i got caught up in the roland aira boutique hype (ive since sold all of my boutique machines save the tr09 which im sellin on fleabay at the moment. yes i had the VP03 too and just sold it). once that novelty wore off i ended up with a beatstep pro to sync my ob6, tempest, jupiter 80 and some other things.
well sold off a lot of that as i was having gear paralysis (!!) and now am going back to just an mpc at the center of my hardware gear.
the LIVE (and X) is perfect for someone who wants standalone FIRST and controler surface SECOND. ive had the LIVE for 3 days now and ive not even downloaded the software for the computer as i dont expect to use it.
if you are not a hardware person, the LIVE is not for you. you can use impc and be done with it (i have that too and never used it!
) or stay in the box with the ipad pro.
lol hey the "8 tracks is stupid" guy.. you clearly dont have the LIVE and its obviously not for you. there are hundreds of folks out here that are dying to get the live and they are happy. but I know, its the internet and someone always has to hate on something..
Im not hating its super limited and I have used everything all the way from mpc 60 weird shit like beat thang and maschine studio. I love akai but there tripping lol. If you like it get it sir people thought i was crazy for buying two 12.9 inch 128 gig ipad pros when they came out lol. For me I keep blowing musicians artist and producer on what I am able to do with an ipad a audio interface and a great midi controller. Im an Ipad fan boy lol forgive me. Not appl fan boy but they struck gold. this is a list of some the shit i have on my ipad. You cand do all this on any mpc sir
What I Have so far
iPad Audio Units
AU HOST
Audio Evolution Mobile Studio (Davy Wenzler) *instruments & effects •iPad only
Auria (WaveMachine Labs, Inc.) *instruments & effects •iPad only
Auria LE (WaveMachine Labs, Inc.) *instruments & effects •iPad only
Auria Pro (WaveMachine Labs, Inc.) *instruments & effects •iPad only
AUM (Kymatica) *instruments & effects •universal
Cubasis (Steinberg) *instruments & effects •iPad only
Cubasis 2 (Steinberg) *instruments & effects •iPad only
Ferrite Recording Studio (Wooji Juice Ltd) *effects only •universal
GarageBand (Apple) *instruments & effects •universal
Helio Workstation (Peter Rudenko) *instruments & effects •iPad only
midiSTEPs (Arthur Kerns) *instruments & effects •iPad only
modstep (AppBC) *instruments & effects •iPad only
MultiTrackStudio (Giel Bremmers) *instruments & effects •iPad only
n-Track Studio MultiTrack Recorder (n-Track) *instruments & effects •universal
TIZE (Tize Music, Inc.) *effects only •universal
Twisted Wave Audio Editor (Twisted Wave) *effects only •universal
Twisted Wave Recorder (Twisted Wave) *effects only •universal
zMors Modular (mobile only) *instruments & effects •iPad only
INSTRUMENT PLUGINS
Addictive Pro (VirSyn) •iPad only
Baervaag - FM Synthesizer (Klevgränd produkter AB) •universal
BASSalicious (MIDIculous LLC) •iPad only
Colossus Piano (Christian Shoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte) •universal
CMP Grand Piano (Christian Shoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte) •universal
Enkl monophonic synth (Klevgränd produkter AB) •iPad only
FM Essentials (Yamaha) •universal
Heavy Brass (Crudebyte) •iPad only
iCathedral Organ (Christian Shoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte) •iPad only
iSEM (Arturia) •iPad only
iSymphonic Orchestra (Christian Shoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte)•universal
iVCS3 (apeSoft) •universal
Jussi - Vocal Synthesizer (Klevgränd produkter AB) •universal
KQ MiniSynth (Ryouta Kira) •universal
NS1 (Nikolozi Pty Ltd) •iPad only
Oriental Strings (Christian Shoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte) •universal
Pads - Lush Pad Synth (Klevgränd produkter AB) •universal
Phasemaker (Bram Bros) •universal
Phonem (Wolfgang Palm PPG) •iPad only
Poison-202 Vintage MIDI Synthesizer (Dmitrij Pavlov) •universal
ReSlice (VirSyn) •universal
Ruismaker (Bram Bros) •universal
Ruismaker FM (Bram Bros) •universal
Sensual Sax (Embertone) •universal
SwarPlug (Swar Systems) •iPad only
Tines (Klevgränd produkter AB) •universal
Troublemaker (Bram Bros) •universal
Turbosounds for Accordian (Reinhard Rieder) •universal
Viking Synth (Blamsoft, Inc.) •universal
WaveGenerator (Wolfgang Palm PPG) •iPad only
WaveMapper (Wolfgang Palm PPG) •iPad only
EFFECT PLUGINS
6144 equalizer by DDMF (Christian Siedschlag) •universal
apeDelay (apeSoft) •universal
apeFilter (apeSoft) •universal
AudioEffX (VirSyn) •universal
AudioMaster Pro (Future Moments) •universal
AudioVerb (VirSyn) •universal
Buttercup Bitcrush (Flora Creative Ltd.) •universal
DC-9 Overdrive (Blamsoft, Inc.) •universal
Envelope AU Reverb by DDMF (Christian Siedschlag) •universal
Esspresso de-esser (Klevgränd produkter AB) •iPad only
F-16 Filter (Blamsoft, Inc.) •universal
frekvens (Erik Sigth) •universal
FuxEQ (mattoncino software) •universal
Haaze- Stereo Tool (Klevgränd produkter AB) •universal
Korvpressor - smart dynamic hotdog device (Klevgränd Produktion AB) •iPad only
Lofionic Duplicat Delay (Chris Rivers) •iPad only
Lofionic Mani Chorus (Chris Rivers) •iPad only
MicSwap: Microphone Emulator & Recorder (Future Moments) •universal
MicSwap Pro: Microphone Emulator & Recorder (Future Moments) •universal
NoLimits Audio Unit Limiter by DDMF (Christian Siedschlag) •universal
Phlox Phaser (Timothy Barraclough) •universal
PressIt multiband compressor (Klevgränd produkter AB) •iPad only
Remaster (Audioforge Labs Inc.) •universal
Resampler (Blamsoft, Inc.) •universal
RF-1 (Kai Aras) •universal
RP-1 (Kai Aras) •universal
Saffron Saturator (Timothy Baraclough) •universal
SquashIt (Klevgränd produkter AB) •universal
Svep phaser, flanger, chorus (Klevgränd produkter AB) •iPad only
ToneBridge Guitar Effects (Ultimate Guitar) •universal
Voice Rack: FX (TC-Helicon) •universal
Zero Chorus (Blamsoft, Inc.) •universal
Zero Reverb (Blamsoft, Inc.) •universal
zMors EQ (mobile only) •iPad only
small list i posted on a different topic
Thank you. It was half the reason I abandoned ProTools years ago. I still haven't recovered/forgiven!
That's reasonable but still a little sad not to see an option 4) "Tap the bounce-in-place button". (aka freeze/unfreeze)
I think those are totally reasonable suggestions about time-stretching, it's not magic people.
Dude. It's a Dell an MPC. You still have all of the programs/samples you could want (which is, I presume, the reason for the audio track limitation along with the time stretching stuff). Not an MPC historian but I'm pretty sure eight audio tracks is infinitely more than any other (non-jjos) MPC.
Not trying to defend a product I don't own, and in particular not trying to defend a product by bastard Jack but it's a portable beat machine with audio tracks, not a portable multi-track with beat making capabilities. The Zoom R series is the latter (and I've never heard of anyone who likes to make beats with one!).
I hope it has (or gets) 'smart' features for packing and unpacking those 8 tracks (like bounce and freeze). And virtual tracks for dealing with takes.
Would also eventually like to see a mode where they flip the priorities for those who need/want them on a case by case basis. Where you could boot it up and say "promise only to use a single program with <16 samples and not use any time stretching, etc" and it then frees up resources to use 16 or 24 audio tracks.
Wow. YUM. Still saving for the OB6. Wish it had 5 octaves and poly-AT but probably going for the keyboard version anyway!
@syrupcore, it has bounce to audio tracks... shazamm is not even responding to the quotes of mine that he quoted lol, he doesn't get it... and I'm not even going to use the audio tracks, I don't need a beatmachine for that.
I guess the work around would be bouncing tracks after you warp them... thanks for the heads up though
I'd like to know how many of the time stretch algorithms are available in stand alone mode?
Except you have to put any samples you want to real-time time stretch into an audio track, time stretch and then bounce them which is precisely the opposite of real-time.
Trying to understand what this means in practice. Can you really not put a loop into a program, change the tempo and have it time stretched? Because, if so, I'm with @mireko_2: big disappointment. I don't even use loops that often!
good question, I'm trying to find videos on it right now.... I wasn't under the impression that time stretch was contingent on audio tracks, that would be weird. I dunno what the big deal is about audio tracks anyway, both my other mpcs have audio tracks and I never use them, but audio is audio as long as I can take the audio/ warped audio and slice it up I guess it's not a deal breaker but it really will depend on how simple that is. gonna investigate
just looking through Mireko's links it looks like the realtime time stretch is only in audio tracks and audio clips....
hmmm that's booty
so it looks like it is realtime time stretch but only in those 2 modes, now I gotta eat crow cause I didn't even know I needed to care about audio tracks... looks like I'll be tossing a sample on an audio track time stretching and resampling or slicing the audio track up to make a program..... and ableton remains number 1 when it comes to time stretching but of course the last was to be expected. I still need to know the workflow to be certain if it will work out for me, but in theory it's not that big of a deal cause when you're in an audio track, and audio clip, or a program track you're still in the mpc and they can all work together at the same time. ... we'll see how It pans out.
the addition of phono inputs and lack of digital input/outputs is more of an issue for me.
haha, I know but I want as close to ableton in a box as I can get..... but like syrupcore said it's not like there's another beatmachine out there doing this.
ToRaiz maybe? It seems a maschine/remix decks killer attempt...
Agreed but if you time stretch a program or keygroup in the software it looses it when loaded in the standalone, then when reloaded into software the timestrech is gone
so are you saying you 'can' time stretch programs in addition to audio tracks and audio clip trigger clips?
(obviously you're saying something like that) but I was under the impression that you couldn't do the programs... ?
the ToRaiz wasn't ready for prime time when it was released but I'm planning to get one when I can find a really good deal on a used one, it's got some promise. I didn't like that those creamy dave smith filters were only global but pioneer said they were going to make them inserts as well .... Plus pioneer are literally the only beatmachine makers who put out roadmaps, if they follow through with the roadmaps I'll have to get it eventually.
https://www.pioneerdj.com/en-us/news/2016/planned-updates-to-toraiz-sp-16-from-november-2016/
It seems limited towards mpc but in timestrech/pitchshifth duties it points "realtime" so it seems a revamped SU700 (or the never released aira sampler).
I will love to see a reduced ToRaiz sampler (sp-8) or new SP-888/555mk2... something simple for slicing and warping. Boutique Variphrase!
I need more than 8 tracks man for how I produce and work sir. But for beat makers I guess its cool. I stopped being a beat maker years ago and became a producer now Im trying to upgrade to being a composer. So I guess my view is modified. I look at music differently than back when I was so called just making beats.
i need subgroups vsts and way more functionality than it can offer in standalone. Shit the desktop version super limited to me too. You have to have a certain machine to use the qlinks and all its just not like a studio one 3 or Auria Pro or Logic I need a DAW atmosphere IMHO
it's a little janky, the quality of the time stretch doesn't sound that great, also I thought pioneer would do allot better on the fx so I was looking forward to great pioneer fx combined with dave smith filters and crazy sample editing and sequencing but having all of those things the quality isn't there... I think the pioneer multi fx app on the iPad sounds better than the fx in the beat machine......................but
it has this character to it that I like, I just haven't been able to fine one at a price I'm willing to pay yet, it's crazy what they are charging for that thing new.... I'm waiting for crackhead prices on craigslist lol
OMG