Elektron Musical Instruments

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

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

Yeah, if you're into hip hop, get a bunch of samples and an MPC.  
There's a Machinedrum sample CD on Elektron's site.

On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:49 PM, gregorio472001 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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I think the Machinedrum is great for any kind of fat
beats, and a great hip-hop drum machine. I do mostly
Techno, but I did do a live "trip-hop" set once on the
MD and a couple of friends told me the beats sounded
like Boards of Canada, so that can't be bad (sorry you
can't hear it, but I had it in MP3.com and now that's
dead). You can get Old-Skool beats like old drum
machines, as well as futuristic Amon Tobin sounding
stuff. Also, the thing everybody has always raved
about the MPC is it's "swing", the way the beats sound
really loose on the MPCs, and the MachineDrum has a
lot of swing options, so you can get your beats
sounding really loose as well. On the other hand, that
MPC-1000 looks really sweet, and if you don't have a
sampler and want to do hip-hop, you might want to go
for the MPC. To this day Squarepusher sequences on an
MPC-2000, so they're really both good, just different.
I myself had been thinking about the MPC-1000 for my
live set, but I just got a Quasimidi 309(and now am
falling in love with the Spectralis), but, again, I do
Techno and love synthetizers.


 --- gregorio472001 <gregorio472001@...> 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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I got both, and I can´t live without them. But my advice is. If you 
like hip hop style beats go with the mpc. Then you will have more 
options when making "realistic" beats. 

The MD is the best drumsynthiziser ther is, and the MPC is the best 
drumsampler there is. The MPC can be more realistic, but the MD can 
tweak you in to space. 

I dont know if that helps you. But that is my opinion;)

---

D



--- 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