MPC skills

I can't remember which thread had the long discussion about people playing MPCs so I'm posting this here, but feel free to merge this if you know what I'm referring to.

Anyways... this is pretty cool:

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i believe it was the "maschine mikro" thread.

cool, but why does he need 2 mpc's for this?

i posted this in another thread here, i think. but this is an old favorite of mine:

That's good but this guy is on totally different level!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGJTSLdrRc

all this is doing is rekindling my MPC lust. the one you posted digit is great.

while that ellis guy can play really fast it's hardly listenable music. It's the same realm as like drumline music. :D

  On 1/8/2012 at 6:04 AM, digit said:

i posted this in another thread here, i think. but this is an old favorite of mine:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwRhohpVoE

not impressed...

i thought jel from anticon was the pioneer of this type of stuff?

  On 1/8/2012 at 1:18 PM, Promo said:

That's good but this guy is on totally different level!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGJTSLdrRc

 

a local hero here for many

Nuff said, the mpc is now officially dead.

ya that's the guy I've seen all over the internet. Really not so impressed. Sure it's technically really impressive, but the music is honestly crap. Not anything I'd ever actually listen to without watching him at the same time.

big meh.

If the music were really interesting AND his technical skill were that high then it would be something else. This is pure novelty. It's why no one in that second vid is even dancing. They're all like "whoa he can hit the pads so fast" nothing more.

i'm with SDB on this. only decent video posted in this thread so far was kcinsu's. people forget how much skill goes into finding the pocket, it's not just about how fast you can play.

i wonder what product jeremy ellis and araabmuzik use to clean all that jizz off their mpcs?

I'm sure it makes for a good show, but yeah, I'd never listen to any of that music in any other setting than watching it.

There are some cool ideas, and some skills, but musically it falls flat (and some of it is kind of sloppy, which bothers me, honestly... like ryan said, it's hard to play a really solid groove, and I wish these guys focused more on that skill before moving on to the super rolls. The rolls arent even all that musical either, especially with velocity lock on!)

Certainly nice to see live stuff though... gives me ideas!

haha that's because I'm sure at that speed he has very poor control over the velocity he's playing ;)

theres twatting pads and showing off then theres sequence cross muting which is a very creative improv way if working

the two methods are totally different

  On 1/9/2012 at 3:44 PM, soundwave said:

sequence cross muting which is a very creative improv way if working

What is this?

Check out this woman rocking out on an 88-pad controller:

  On 1/9/2012 at 4:07 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 1/9/2012 at 3:44 PM, soundwave said:

sequence cross muting which is a very creative improv way if working

 

What is this?

imagine each pad with its own midi loop of varying lengths all playing different riffs (or a segment of a riff) at the same time all on the same midi channel

you then have all parts muted except the ones you want playing, you then hit the active pads at the same time as the muted pads you want to play next and chop n change for many variations on the fly all tightly in sync. you can do the same with the monomachine too but only on 6 tracks, the mpc can have 64 (4x 16 pads)

there is a new pattern to pad feature on the latest jjos but i havent got my head around it yet

you maybe able to do the same on Live with a launchpad or something

great way to use the electribes.

whilst the guy in the first video has some dexterity. it was a 30 second loop max and he didnt jam it out or anything

jel is better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKMyOh8Ch4

  On 1/13/2012 at 7:23 AM, digit said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ShAWzqAzYM

The funny part, is that she has more raw talent than araab "oh listen to my wasted talent on skrillex fast fingers" Muzik.

that little girl is amazon