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Re: Machinedrum & Akai mpc-1000 question

2004-02-04 by needle201

well, i guess you can tweak something useful out of the MD, but you 
would be definitely better of sampling and crunching stuff in the MPC 
1000k for that particular style of music...

peace,
needle



--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "gregorio472001" 
<gregorio472001@y...> wrote:
> Hey guys and girls , let me ask you this ?!
> Is the MD a good hip-hop drum machine ? 
> i know the akai mpc-1000 is a sequencer \/sampler 
> and the md is a "synth.sequencer"
> but can the machinedrum do "dan the automator" style phat beats 
that 
> the akai are know for?
> is there anyway you can make the md sound good (sit-well in tracks) 
> for hip-hop?
> 
> , i will soon expand my home-studio . i make rock, punk, trip-hop , 
> amon-tobin type stuff .. and all i have heard from the machinedrum 
> are elektronic songs and IDM type stuf. does the machine cover alot 
> of styles or just those ?  am i better of with the akai mpc-1000 ?
> 
> Sorry for all this questions , is that i can't try out the MD (all 
> the samples i have heard sound so good) and i'm not sure if its 
sound 
> is right for me !
> 
> ps/ if anybody has a trip-hop , hip-hop type song done on a md , 
> please please post it !!! peace

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