MPC & MPD Pad Upgrade…

Note:  If you EVER thought that your drum pad responsiveness could be better, read on…

I’ve never been an MPC guy, but I’ve been around MPCs a lot.   I’ve seen them in action, messed around with them & made a few half beats on them.  The bulk of my life experience on the pads has been with pad controllers.  My first was an mpd16, then got the 24, now have the 32.   In my experience, the difference in responsiveness between MPC and MPD pads has been night and day.  The MPC pads were always WAYYYYY more responsive.   They were so unresponsive, I just started pushing them like buttons instead of banging on them like an instrument.  I just assumed and accepted that MPD pads were just complete bulls#it…

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Someone Needs A Motherfu@#ing Reality Check FAST!!!!!!!!!

Someone meaning Aarab Musik.  The youtube MPC playing sensation and Dipset producer, needs a  motherfu@king reality check.   Apparently he was at the studio with Kanye West, but Kanye wasn’t there.  Then according to him Kanye ” jacked his shit”.  “Shit” in this certain instance meaning, “playing an MPC live”.  I just wanted to weigh in on this real quick.  So let me throw a a few things out there…

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Scorpio61 The Album!

Hey everybody…  Everybody’s favorite sample dealer, Scorpio61 has put together a FREE double album for all of your Hip Hop enjoyment.  If you didn’t know, Scorpio is also a Hip Hop producer (you didn’t think he dug all of these samples for nothing, did you?).  The first disc is a compilation of some of the work he has done with artists such as Snowgoons, Agallah, Brooklyn Academy, Visual, Savage Brothers and more (Sean P and Tommy Tee can also be heard on the album).  The 2nd disc Instrumentality, contains 15 instrumental tracks for your listening pleasure.  Scorpio is just trying to put his music out there to the masses, so download these CD’s now and post your inevitable, “what sample is that?” questions below!

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Scorpio61 Samplemix Volume 57…!

Hey everybody… decided to come out from my cave and post up the latest mix from the dude known as Scorpio61…  You should know the drill by now, if not, do the knowledge…

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Zombie T.V. Scoring 101

What’s good everyone… Just wanted to drop in real quick and put you on to a great article by Bear McCreary.  Bear is a composer who has worked on various movies, TV and video game scores.  In this article he breaks down how he scored the premier episode of AMC’s Walking Dead.  It’s a very informative look into scoring.   I just discovered Bear’s blog, so I’d imagine there are some other goodies on scoring in there as well…  Check out the article here…

Zombie T.V. Scoring 101

Don’t forget to check out Walking Dead on AMC, Sunday nights at 10PM EST!