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a sampler and a keybored would be the cheapest way rack mount samplers are cheap as fuck second hand and then just get one of them wee midi keyboreds to trigger it

totally off the meat rack!

a bit more fun than sitting a fecking PC for sure its as intuitive at looks too once youve sussed the controls, Ive used a really basic sampler in the past and got the same kind of results by stealing a Bootsy Collins riff, adding a beat and sticking a loop of Burt Baccarach sax over the top.....but on a non automated manually triggered sampler (AKAI remix16).....looks much easier if theres a sequencer holding the samples together than f*ck the vids have actually answered a lot of my questions so thanks min! *disappears for 48 hours to read the manual*

Horses for courses or whatever PC Versus Hardware. Ive done the PC based thing (with a load of midi <controllers and modules> hooked up) for a while thinking it was an advancement over dedicated hardware, and it is in a lot of ways it is, especially making less work for the operator and giving you more (too many???) options - but not in all ways. For me I work better and more intuitively with the hardware for some intangible reason. The feel is completely different and the work methods are very different. Sound is different too. I find screen based working a bit too visual, plus I sit at a PC all day at work, the last thing I wanna do is sit at another one when I get home. I found that people consider the AKAI sequencer to be as way better unit than the Roland ones so Im looking forward to getting into that side of it. Ill still be using the PC for runing Wavelab for sample editing and maybe mastering finished stuff and also still use Nuendo for capturing live vocal takes prior to editing. I utterly detest VST synths though, and find linking PC sequencers to my hardware synths a real fuck on. Never had any hassle with Hardware tho. OR crashes. The MPC4000 is a USB host so for file transfer and file handling it will interface with perfectly with the PC, to edit, file and access the samples easily. Thats what PCs are good at imo. Too late now anyhow, to redesign and re-invest in my PC based recording suite (which is pretty good (Emu audio/midi interface into Nuendo) - the MPC4000 arrives this week with a pile of dirty sample vinyls from the states. (The MPC has phono jacks on the back so will live happily next to me deck yo!) Plus for gigging, I still would never trust a laptop. MPC will go where I go generally. I think for original Hip Hop, Junk Reggae and any modern R&B styles (or anything with robotic tight syncopation) the MPC is gonna do the job and by all accounts has the perfect sound and feel to do those styles properly. PCs are way more versatile user freindly jack of all trades but thats not what Im looking for.

Anyone working with these? Ive done a lot of hardware sequencing on Alesis and Roland kit and done some sampling on an older s1000 Akai sampler....will this experience be any use on an MPC? Im hacked off with the drawbacks of PC based sampling/sequencing etc so Im thinking about doing some new stuff with an Akai MPC4000 (as used by Dr Dre!) Has anyone got one and can offer any tips?

yeh the new single is a new direction (sort of) but also probably the best thing they've done so far.....incredible when an amazing band like that just raises the bar even higher :love: Yo

Aye but did Brian Eno know that Phil Collins had got on his CD? The wee baldy bastard might have crept into to studio and pressed record while Brian was out for a fag. Brian might have then assumed he had accidentally recorded sound of someone trying to shit a melon out of their arse in the studio toilets, but left it in the mix as for artistic purposes. It could all be just a horrific mistake.

You may have to plead mitigating circumstances for that I think (LSD, Absynth, Newcastle Brown Ale or some other mind altering substance) Or you could say it was the voices in your head told you to do it and then at least you'd get a nice padded room.

dont care, they prob had something worthwhile to say in the first place given their ideologies/politics and the type of audiences that will lap that type of thing up in the belief there is a point to a band doing that fine but thats not the issue, its the local bands talking bollocks for the sake of talking bollocks between songs in order to feed the their fake rock star egos (they all know who they are)......its like a fucking plague on our town just like DJs who talk too much at the expense of actually playing records Maybe they like the sound of their own voices better than the actual music (and they maybe have a point there)

Im still in shock. Ship Song. I felt emotions.

Its a dream of mine that one day all the people of dubious musical taste will be asked to fill out a tick box style questionaire. The questionaire will ask: Do you like Phil Collins and/or his music? Have you ever liked Phil Collins and/or his music? Do you or any of your family own any recordings by Phil Collins? Have you even sung a Phil Collins song at Karaoke? Do you know any of the words to any Phil Collins song? Have you ever had a dream with Phil Collins in it? If Phil Collins was burning alive would you piss on him in order to put the fire out? If any YES boxes are ticked the person in question is taken into custody, tortured and beaten up a bit and then incinerated alive, with all records of that persons life being destroyed. Immediate family and friends should then be placed under immediate state arrest and asked to complete the same questionaire. There should also be one for Genesis, Asia, Chris Rea and Marillion. Hiltler had the right idea he just picked on the wrong social group.

I like them. But Ill probably go off them simply because Im shallow and I find all this hype boring. Although if theres a larger more boring anti hype than actual real hype I may stay on the side of the hype. The anti anti-hype hype.

so yeh, only the band then! (and maybe their mams) .....why bore the rest of us with a fake tale of inspiration or some bullshit ideology designed to impress (and therefore rendered void by its motives)... id rather read a book to be honest for a captive audience to bore shitless the mouthy bands should just stand outside Marks and Spencers on a Saturday afternoon imo if you ever hear these words at a gig ''just play the fucking song!!!'' that will be me (probably) and when bands start talking mates in the crowd.......don't get me fucking started on that one. Mate in crowd: ''You're all cunts'' Singer/Guitarist: ''No you're a cunt huhuhuh'' *Uncomfortable silence, shuffles a bit then points at bass player* Singer/Guitarist: ''He is most definately a cunt'' *bass player moves over to nearest microphone* ''huhuhu you're a FAT CUNT so shut up man huhuhuh'' *Audience heads for exit / toilet to poo*

most aberdeen bands could cut their set length by at least 20 minutes if they removed the shit-speak and in-jokes from between songs it would also make them look less rubbish ''erm yeah, this ones about......'' who gives a fuck?!

Im still in shock. A totally fucking stunning gig. I liked the smaller band. It made the songs bigger.

Im sure there was a thread like this about Phil Collins that was actually even funnier.... and Marillion and Midget Ure and Dire Straights and Chris DeBurgh and Pink Floyd and Tina Turner etc All should be destroyed and all records of their existence erased. Then the human race can move forward without guilt or shame.

Hmm thats a very valid point..... Go on Jester, write another pointless essay :laughing:

If I dislike awful bands like Asia and Marillion I must be apparently.

.....like the shit that comes out of a dead dogs arse after it got ran over by the bendy bus.

A giant comet smashing into the earth and killing all life apart from indestructable things like scorpions, ants and cockroaches, would be preferable to this.

must be the same band i accidentally saw in drummonds oh yeh it is..... first song was very clever muso pop - faultless but soulless, but I kinda enjoyed it in the way you might secretly like a song by Hard Fi but know that you shouldn't (not that thats happened to me - ahem -) then it went into a muso poo funk workout for at least half an hour untill it forced me leave in search of some filter disco and lower quality lager

love explosion - a face covered in spunk springs to mind but that may possibly be seen as offensive in some quarters of society no one is implying theres anything offensive about naked laydeez on posters, just that its usually irrelevent to the product its attempting to sell yo