MPC isn't just for hip hop! Standalone chillwave jam on the Live 2

Here's a jam on the MPC Live 2 that we did while being out on a 24-hour music-making camper van trip. The MPC Live 2 is pretty much the ideal groovebox for these kinds of scenarios with its built-in battery and speaker. This allowed us to record this jam in one take without any cables whatsoever. All you need to do is to convert a song into a sequence, arm Automation and then hit Over Dub and it will record all track/pad mutes and one-shot hits on pads into the full sequence.
You can download the project files for both the MPC and Ableton Live 11 from / sineway .
We'd love to hear what you think! Please leave a comment below. Also, if you can help us identify the correct genre for this type of music, that would be really helpful too! :)
Oh, and we'll publish more jams from the camper van trip soon, including a Syntakt jam and another MPC jam.
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[@amstadeathhardcore816]

Great music man, starting follow

[@sinewaymusic]

Hey, really appreciate it! Thank you. 🙏🌟

[@Garnassium]

Love this

[@sinewaymusic]

Thank you! 🙏

[@iveno_]

Sound really good, I use the LIVE too.

[@sinewaymusic]

Thanks! It's a great piece of gear. 😊

[@SergeyCoder]

Good work! 👍 Really nice to hear non-hiphop music from MPC.

[@sinewaymusic]

Glad to hear that, and we agree. Nothing against hip hop music, but it's not the *only* thing the MPC is good for. 😊

[@droussel7359]

I love your music! I am nowhere as good as you are, but it is inspiring to know I could attain this using my MPC.

[@sinewaymusic]

Thanks for those words about our music! Yes, the MPC is insanely versatile and fun to work with. As we look back at some of the first tunes we made on it, we've realized how far we've come. Which is to say that you are absolutely right, you can absolutely get to this level and beyond, and it gets more fun the more we use the MPC. 😊

[@simcax6087]

This music is amazing, I aim to make similar stuff on my mpc one. Please make some kind of walktrough, how a song like this builds up. Thanks for sharing this, keep up!

[@sinewaymusic]

Thank you so much for your feedback on the music! It's a good idea to do a walkthrough but honestly I'm not sure the process is all that exciting because a lot of it includes playing around with a sound, or a melody line, and then layering things until there's an interesting pattern going that gets us to vibe with it. The rest is trying different chord progressions and essentially playing around with the potential parts kind of like lego blocks. The original chord progression is the one starting at 1:52. Unlike my music partner, I rarely have a full song idea in mind and this song was made by me primarily, so I basically went from the progression at 1:52 to a more monotone pattern, to adding a potential bridge (3:05). The rest is just layering sounds. That's the process in a nutshell. Maybe we'll try to turn that into a video at some point still, I appreciate the suggestion and your comment in general. 😊

[@soguy]

That's really great. I recently bought MPC One+ for this non-hip-hop music. I would love to learn more about your workflow.

[@sinewaymusic]

Thanks! We'll consider doing a video about our workflow with the MPC. It's an incredibly versatile tool. 😊

[@Harlem-Instrumental]

Nice job showing off the MPC other side!

[@sinewaymusic]

Thanks for the feedback! The other side as in the non-hiphop side you mean? 😊

[@stofbug]

Awesome track from one of my favorite synthtubers. 👍

[@sinewaymusic]

Wow, that means more than you might think. I really appreciate you saying that, thank you! We did a Syntakt jam on this trip too, can't wait to share that one next. 😊 Thanks again!

[@stofbug]

@@sinewaymusic Yeah, looking forward to that one. Got a Syntakt myself, so I always study other Syntakt jams meticulously.

[@eprohoda]

Sineway,‘sup?- how gorgeous video, godspeed~😌

[@sinewaymusic]

Thanks!

[@mann-vom-mond]

Great work

[@sinewaymusic]

Thank you as always, my man. 🙏💪

[@mann-vom-mond]

@@sinewaymusic 🙂

[@diswest]

Awesome!
How did you record audio? If I remember correctly, MPC doesn't have master recorder. But there is no external recorder on hour video as well.

[@sinewaymusic]

Hey there, thanks for the feedback. 😊 This is the easiest part of the MPC. All automation (knob twists) and pad/track mutes are recorded into the project live so all you need to do is to hit Save and then you can drop the project file into the daw using the MPC plugin and mix from the daw. No need to even export audio stems if you don't want to.