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What are the most used drum machines and keyboards to produce freestyles ?
 
Emerson Dj said:
What are the most used drum machines and keyboards to produce freestyles ?
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The akai Mpc 3000 (an old favorite) sampling drum machine; and the now legendary Mpc 4000 Super new and improved with dvd quality full blown sampler capability.

Let's see; there was also the Emulator series

Todd Terry created masterpieces on the Emu Sp1200 (very old by todays standards)
The Vargas Brothers (try yazz, the breeze etc....) also used the sp 1200
I'd go hands down with the mpc 4000 and a keyboard midi controller; that's all u need.
The keyboards are too many to name
the old ones
Ensoniq Mirage
Ensoniq Eps 16
Korg M1
Korg 01/w
Juno

If you need to do this by todays standards go with the mpc 4000 and and a radium midi keyboard midi controller. You decide what samples to put in there and trigger with the pads, and you can import the legendary akai series sample cd-roms for your keyboard sounds and trigger it with your keyboard controller.
That's it
 
Yeah, I always wanted to know Too
I knew about the Akai tho, thats also Dr.Dres baby!! What about the Roland Tr-808?
My Question Is for Key boards, Whats good for Trance like Synth sounds?? I have a Korg MS 2000 and a Roland JV-1010 but still very limited.
 
YOUNG MEGATRON said:
Yeah, I always wanted to know Too
I knew about the Akai tho, thats also Dr.Dres baby!! What about the Roland Tr-808?
My Question Is for Key boards, Whats good for Trance like Synth sounds?? I have a Korg MS 2000 and a Roland JV-1010 but still very limited.
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If you want ill keys hardware; I'd go for an extreme Lead (emu) turbo. Illest sounds for all types of music ESPECIALLY TRANCE. This is what thunderpuss 2000, Hex Hector, Victor Calderone; mad heads use this. It's a discontinued piece; but wow; the sounds (1012 of them) incredible!!!!!!! The Korg Triton with the dance xtreme board and the Trance explosion boards too; nuff said!!!

The tr808 is a classic; use rebirth software by propellerhead it's a perfect software emulation of that and the 909 as well as the 303.
Peace
 
well, I think the triton with extreme dance and the trance attack expansions would be a good keyboar. Or the upcomming triton extreme with just about all their expansions preloaded and with 2 usb ports. For drum machines/sequencers the akai rules. But I have been messed with rolands new mv-8000 and think it's definately sumthin to check out.
 
OK , My Lil Bro Just Got a Triton so maybee I can swoop one of thease other baords, Thanx !!! OH Doese the Akai come with drum sample pre-sets?? Or do you have to up load your own sounds? and if so wehere do you get thease drum sounds to up load?? a cd sampler?? I mean the Akai is like a sampler 1st, then a drum machine rite? or is it a drum machine , then a sampler?
 
lots of places will have akai mpc package with some sample sets. well pssl.com does anyways.
 
crazydee said:
lots of places will have akai mpc package with some sample sets. well pssl.com does anyways.
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The Akai Mpc 4000 is a full spec sampler 24 bit 96khz and a very robust hardware sequencer.
You can import akai cd-rom libraries with literally hundreds of thousands of sounds. This unit is more powerful than the mighty triton extreme and the Roland although it's a good machine just doesn't come close to the mpc 4000 spec wise.
If you need a library of sounds hit me on the pm; I made these libraries myself ready to go on the mpc 4000 or the triton or any workstation/hardware software sampler (even reason)
Planett phatt
mo phatt
orbit 3
Orchestra/strings
XL 1
Thousands of drum kitts and synth libraries. It takes alot of work/patience to build your own kitts that you'll be comfortable with. Learn the machines first worry about the sounds later.
 
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