Akai MPC Tutorial. Mixing Live and Moog Synth Bass in the MPC Standalone. FREE FX Chain Preset
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- In this video, I go through some of the techniques and processes I use to mix bass in the MPC standalone. I go through two examples, a live bass and a Moog Synth bass. There are two FREE FX Chain Presets to download and share.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:33 Mixing Bass Ethos
02:28 The Live Bass
04:08 Live Bass Compression
09:28 Live Bass EQ
10:23 Gating for noise
13:37 MPC 60 Polish
14:38 Moog Synth Bass
15:40 Synth Bass Compression
17:53 Synth Bass EQ
20:20 Add some saturation
23:05 The Mother Ducker
26:32 Outro
FREE Preset FX Chain for your live or synth bass:
drive.google.com/file/d/17Ead...
For mixing and mastering services feel free to email me at: conan@thecratesmotel.com
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Equipment I use:
Headphones:
Audeze LCD-X
Beyerdynamic 770/880/1990
Shure 535
Sennheiser HD25 MKII
Pioneer HDJ X10
Aiaiaia TMA-2 Wireless+
Reference Monitors:
Genelec 8020D
Presonus Studio One 6
RME ADI-2 DAC FS
Audient Evo 16
Audient SP8
Presonus HP4 (My Grot Box)
Presonus Faderport V2
Arturia Minilab MKII
Novation 49SL MKII
Arturia Microlab
Akai MPC One
Akai MPC Live II
Roland SP404 Mk2
Isla Instruments S2400
Omni Portable Turntable
Content Creation:
Presonus Revelator IO24
Zoom H6 Recorder
Earthworks Custom Icon Pro Microphone
Sennheiser MKE 600 Microphone
Logitech Brio 4k Cam
Apple iPhone 12
DJI Osmo Mobile 6
OC White Ultima Mic Arm
Davinci Resolve
Filmic Pro
Knobs:
www.amazon.com/dp/B07TXYBB7Z
Data Wheel:
www.amazon.com/dp/B08R5THKZD - Jak na to + styl
"The drums and the bass sound like they are supposed to live in the same House with each other"
Genius quote!
Thanks for watching dude 🙏🏼
"Why not just leave the bass as it is?
Because its not where I want it to be in the mix"
I like that!
Thanks dude
Sounds fantastic
Thanks for watching man.
Impressive lesson!
Thanks dude 🙏🏼
Thanks man. Dopeness!!
Thanks for watching dude.
Thank you for the presets again dude
You're welcome dude. Thank you for watching.
Like this stuff!
Thanks for watching dude
Interesting. Nice to see how far we can go w the MPC. Intriguing use of the AIR Noise Gate.
It’s an old trick lol. Thanks for watching dude.
Stumbled across your channel today. Some amazing information here! I have had the MPC for 18 months, mostly for house, so really nice to see and hear how I can utilise the FX and chaining more effectively. 👍
Thanks for watching dude, and for taking the time to comment.
Nice one
Thanks for watching dude
Awesome stuff with very valuable bits in there. I'm one of those freaks who wants to overprocess bass and I mean * absolutely destroy * the sound to get maximum funk out of it and then just duck it when the kick hits. Right now I'm looking into producing some organic house/techno and this tutorial helps a lot, with the way more subtle basslines of the genre.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment dude
Great stuff thanks. The live bass sounds like Chic.
Good shout man. It's Sister Sledge (with Bernard Edwards on bass).
Awesome stuff... thank you 🤝🏾 I wouldn't have thought to bring a gate at the end of the chain! 🤔
It’s not something I’d reach for every time but the bass was a little noisy in this case and I thought it would be good to show people that it’s an option. Thanks for watching dude.
There is a topic in the akai MPC forum. I dont know if they listen to it but it would be a good idea to post your good suggestion there. "MPC Firmware/Software Feature Requests & Suggestions"
I have done a few times before haha. Nothing happened.
@@TheCratesMotel Ok thx for trying, and big thx for your video
Nice stuff here. If you’re gonna go with the best bass guitar, definitely make it Bernard Edwards!
Yeh man, Bernard was amazing. Also a big fan of Larry Graham, Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke.
Thank you for making these videos! I have watched a few of them all the way through and I love how you explain everything in the MPC. I've been using the MPC live 2 for a few months now and these videos have been very helpful. I recently purchased a tascam model 24 mixer to record the MPC Live 2 with my other synths. Do you have any other videos or can reccomend any material on using an analog/digital set up for recording, mixing and mastering? Thanks!
Hey buddy. I don’t specifically have any videos with the Tascam but there are probably some useful tips in my other videos you could apply to your workflow. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Man this is golden. I like to record live bass into my MPC X all the time! Speaking of audio tracks, do you know if it’s possible to bounce tracks in the MPC, like the old school way? I was thinking of work arounds for the limitations of 8 tracks.
Hey man, thanks for watching. Do you mean bounce an audio track to a pad? Yeh you can do that. I’m not in front of my Mpc but I’ve definitely bounced several harmony vocal tracks to a single pad before.
It’s actually a great idea for a video.
Well I was actually talking about bouncing say audio tracks 1-7 to audio track 8, clearing up tracks 1-7 to record more music on. But actually your way may be better because unless I’m stupid I haven’t found a way to mute audio tracks the same way you can mute the other tracks or pads. You’re right that would be a great video👍🏾
@@leogolive hmm it would be useful to bounce audio to audio too though. I’ll look into it.
Ok cool Conan. I’ll keep experimenting too. If I figure out something I’ll let you know!
Hello Mate , just a quick one
I put my 3 minute sample song into the sample wave editor for chopping
I set the slices to region
I then set it to 64 slices
I then convert it to the pads
Lovely jubbly 😊
My question is , is there a way to save every 64 pad "samples" that was chopped 🤔 into a new folder on the hard drive as separate samples ?
Rather than saving as chopped program markers
Cheers mate
Hey buddy, yes sure. When you go into the convert page from Chop, you can scroll clockwise to "New Program with New Samples". That will make new samples from each slice.
@TheCratesMotel OK I'll give that a try cheers
@@simcitybigworldmedia let me know how you get on
@TheCratesMotel
Hey there CM
I did what you said , but I still cant do it
There's no clear start to finish videos on CZcams help
There was 2 ways I tried to save
Step 1: I went to pencil ✏️ icon on the main sample progame ...... then I "Save Sample"
But all that did was just save the 3 minute wave file sample and not the individual sample chops
Step 2 : I held shift and save to see if that would work but that only saved a xpj file
I also tried to look around the sample wave editor but no joy there
All I'm trying to do is save the chopped individual samples in a folder on my memory card
I know I must be doing it wrong and I know there must be a way to do it , I'm just not knowleged enough on the Akai .
@@simcitybigworldmedia Ok. So let's get a sample in Sample Edit. Go into Chop - Regions - set it to how many regions you want (this also works whichever way you choose to chop a sample) - Hold down Shift - Convert - Scroll with data wheel to new program with new samples - make sure Crop samples and create new program is checked - Do it. If you now check your Sample Assign window to see your sample pool you will see that you have created small chops as their own samples. Maybe you didn't have Crop samples ticked in the Convert window. I just tried it to double check it works and it worked if you follow that exact procedure. Let me know if you have any issues.
What’s the headphones you are using? Thanks
Hey buddy. I am using the Beyerdynamic DT770 250ohm headphones in this video.
Conan, do you understand that you guard yor job for years with all these details ? ;)
Haha thanks man