dr.dre

[GrassHopper]

hey n e one see a commercial for budwiser with him in it?

like if u have its like there one where hes on a plane and like he gets a budwiser and like hes playin on some kinda beat maker thing.

i really wanna know what that protable beat thing is.
if u do know what i'm talking about then lmk. post here.

thx guys.

[dj4mula]

Could it be a drum sample machine?

Akai MPC2000XL?

[dfltr]

drool...

you should have put up a warning before posting that image 4mula, that shit's like porn to me.

sooooo rad. i just finished paying off my mixer... time to go into debt again for an MPC? i think so.

[GrassHopper]

yeah shit something like that drum sample thing.
his was like all black with white buttons.
can u hook those up to like ur cpu and record beats or ?

[dfltr]

^^ as far as what an MPC does, the following is damn near true:

it does everything but make babies, and the next version might actually do that.

sampler, sequencer, you name it. it's most often seen in videos being tapped at by a wily dj type... those 16 black pads you see on the front are velocity-sensitive triggers.

i want one... i want one NOW.

[dj4mula]

^^^

LOL..ya man I was drooling to when I went to Tom Lee a few dasy ago.

Grasshopper, you dont have to use hardware to produce music now. There is a lot of great software out there. Go and do some research on Reason or Cubase SX. I'm using Reason right now and they have a great drum sampler. You can also find CdXtract, which will extract sounds from AKAI discs that you can input into the Reason Drummachine. But them me warn you, AKAI cds are really expensive. Also if your trying to look for them online, there very difficult to find because people trade for em.

Good luck.

[dfltr]

while gettin my drool on (shopping for an MPC at work... i love this job) i found this site:

MPC Tutorials

how cool is that?

[GrassHopper]

ahhh ok cool.
like yeah i know what chu mean dfltr when u say those djs tappin on those pads. like yeah those are exactly what i'm lookin for.

so like where do u actual samples come from? those akai cds? like canu only get certain beats and tones or can u get n e kinda sound out there? and are these cds a lot of money??

so like is this machine a good investment if u wanna make beats, coz i got lots of beats in my head. :007:

[dj4mula]

Grasshopper, making a beat from your head to an actual track is a hard process, because you have to track down the right sample.

Akai, Gigafont, Refill and others are brands of sample cds.

[dfltr]

Originally posted by GrassHopper
so like where do u actual samples come from?

it's all about D.I.T.C.

[GrassHopper]

hey i'm trying to use reason rite now but i can't seem to get it runnin.
like did u buy urs in stores or d/l it? coz like i d/ld it and like it doesn't start up for me. it goes like error 1880 or something while installin and its like can't find reason sample blank.rfl but i have it. whats up with that?!

[dfltr]

sounds like the guys who ripped that release removed a bunch of samples to save space. if there's a custom install option try setting it up with only the core program files.