MPC X SE UNLEASHED! Workflow / Breakdown of my best song yet ft. Subsequent 37 / Polybrute 3.0
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2023
- I wanted to share the process of how I came up with one of my favorite songs ever on the @AkaiProVideo MPC X SE, using the @MoogSynthesizers Subsequent 37, @ArturiaOfficial Polybrute, @dsmhumboldt Simplifier, @empresseffects Reverb and @Hologramn Microcosm!
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I will always prefer and enjoy a video like this more than any review focused video. Context is so helpful and better. Love the format and your song. I know this is about gear, but your voice is the key to the whole operation, haha.
Lol, thanks so much bro❤️❤️ always appreciate you being here🤟🏻
Agreed.
Thanks so much for sharing your workflow with us. I've learned a few things from you that will help with my own workflow. Great song by the way. All the best
Awesome ! Great song and atmosphere !!!!
Very beautiful track ! Love it ❤
Great work man! Love this kind of break down including your effects and techniques on the MPC. Those vocals and completed track are dope!!!
Thank you my friend!! See you next year🙌🏻🙌🏻
Wow. I find the MPC very constraining, workflow wise. And you master it. Kudos. My dream is you giving us an MPC masterclass with non-hip-hop tunes.
Wonderful job.
Thanks so much for this! I’ll be sure to make more MPC music making vids this year🙌🏻🙌🏻 see you there!
@@MidlifeSynthesist I’ll be where for you (even if the rain’s doesn’t fall)
As I see it the modern MPC has more facilities available on it than many pro studios used to have in the 60s and 70s. For me at this point its more or less an entire studio in a box.
woohoo, mpc x se came with nice matching watches!!! beautiful song mate!
you really created an atmosphere with this song, many thanks for this great video ;-)
Nice track. I enjoyed it. Those violin samples really added a nice texture and energy throughout. Good job
Thank you so much my friend!!! Wish you an amazing 2024!
Great song and as always love watching you work
Congratulations, very nice track.
I really loved your layering and learned a lot from your techniques to expand the stereo field and your workflow. Thanks so much for this breakdown! I use the Akai Force, but a lot of this applies to that device as well. Awesome job and congrats on making such a great song!
Thank you so much my friend! Loved sharing it, see you again next year!🙌🏻
Thanks! Beautiful arrangement!🙂
Thanks so much for watching!
Mega Song! Amazing Vocals! Seems to be a HIT..!🎉
Thank you so much my friend! It really means alot to me that you enjoyed it❤️ hope to see you soon!
Thanks! Keep up the good work!
Great song, beautifull arrangement!
Thank you my friend!🙌🏻
Bro that song is amazing. Love the string stabs
Thanks so much bro❤️ yeah I love me some strings as well🤟🏻🤟🏻 thanks for watching!
phenomenal
Outstanding! Simply outstanding.
I truly appreciate that bro, thank you🤟🏻
I’m come back to your video again looking for inspiration. Your tutorial was on creating emotions for your song and your processes of choosing instruments to express it. The joy on your face makes my smile. I know in another video you mentioned you are taking a well deserved break. Brother I look forward to your return; however take your time so you and us get the best of you. Thank you
Excuse me kind sir: Limit is 8 "audio" tracks and 8 plugins. You still can chop and load vocal "samples" into 128 pads and layout 128 tracks of vocals per sequence into 128 sequences (with Memory/CPU limitations of course). I will defend MPC, I love it to death and your's looks beautiful! Great video!
Your songwriting is tops dude. Bravo! :)
Thanks brother❤️ truly appreciate it 🤩
Thanks for sharing. MPC has a glow about itself being front and center 😂
🤣🤣🤣 I gotta say I think it’s one of my prettiest machines ever🥰
There are some inspired production choices here that I may have to use in future productions. 👏🏾
And since Nov. 2023, I've bought a Novation Circuit (very fun and intuitive), a Polyend Play Plus (and sold it - buggy and overpriced), then an MPC One+, which has become my favorite of the 3.
Only had the One+ for less than a month, but I'm already dying for an MPC X; I'm trying so hard not to fall victim to GAS but man, it sure is tempting, LOL.
Keep up the good work.
Great Job, So Inspirational... She Better Run Back to you Now. 😁
I'm a new subscriber, from Paris. I like a lot, a lot, your channel: I just watched the video on the Moog Subsequent 25; and now, two and a half years later I see you with the Subsequent 37. Am I wrong? I missed videos that I should have watched or "You're like all the rest!". Business after all? Hope i'm wrong!!
Nice
Ta weno el bajo wn! Los plugins estan la raja, solo le falta su reverb pro. Te quedo la raja el track
Well organized lush track🫡
Thank you my friend!! See you soon🙌🏻
Wow! Really nice music, instruments, layers, soundscapes! Congrats! I only think the vocals were too much everywhere on the music kind of shadowing the rich soundscape and not well blended. If treated like you treated the individual layers here and there would emphasize it and the textures more!
This is excellent feedback my friend, I appreciate it🤟🏻 will definitely give the vocal mix some love😉 thank you so much for watching and hope to see you soon!!
For the finished song jump to 12:30 😉
What are your favorite plugins on the MPC so far?
Jura
super
Excellent video first of all. This is my first time seeing any of your videos. So you recorded your instruments into the MPCX, and your vocals into Ableton- And you did your final tracks and editing in Ableton?
Exactly! That workflow has been very fluid for me so far. I feel that I can’t really comp my vocal tracks on mpc, so it makes more sense to do that on ableton. I’m hoping to grab a push3 soon to compare the workflow. Thanks for watching!!
How about a soulful guitar or synth solo in there at the post-bridge? It doesn't have to be flashy, but it should do some build-up.
Interesting!!, i have been struggling lately with the thought of perhaps making a song, in the traditional sense with verses , chorus etc , outside a daw is pointless …
I want to do it with my octatrack but ableton is just so good at showing the whole arrangement on a single timeline
Vraiment très sympa cette musique,il y à un petit côté peter Gabriel.👍
Are the lyrics based upon a past failed relationship? Or were they based on a argument in a Walmart car park with current partner when you realised you’d forgotten to return the trolley and she “turned around and walked away from me” in disgust at your trolley management skills?
🤣 how did you know about the trolley incident?? Who have you been speaking to👀
Mine is back ordered on sweetwater til March 2024
The bassy bridge is good
Magic of the Subsequent37 ❤️🤩 thank you so much for watching! See you soon!
You do know that it's better to control the Poly Brute and Sub37 via midi and have the audio on their own channels on the mixer leaving the MPC to deal with mainly drums. That's the original MPC workflow
Album Leaf vibes a little
Can you give me more info? I’d love to check them out!
@@MidlifeSynthesist The Album Leaf - one of my favourite bands from US, post-rock, electronic. Try 2007 album "Into the Blue Again". Vibes from vocal and lyrics mostly.
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Sounds very Peter Gabriel good piece.
2:03 dude every hip hop/RnB track in the 'aughts" used that kick/snare combo. Shows you are new to groove/rhythm based music...so called " urban music". Your first time hearing it is Billie Eilish 😅
Dude, since when does getting inspired by an artists way of using an instrument mean it’s the first time you’re hearing it? I got inspired by Max Richters use of Cello this week, doesn’t mean it’s the first time I’m hearing of a cello😂🤦🏻♂️
I'm already broke! - WHY do you guys TEASE me like this?!? lol - Thank God I had the good sense to melt down all my creadit cards, too! l'll just watch you program YOURS! - If that's OK?!? 🙂
Jajaja, fair enough!!! Thanks so much for hanging out with me today! See you soon!
Lyrics: I can almost taste his skin and lips so close...?????? Who did you write those lyrics for...? It is tight but a Lil weird..😮😮😊 hope you wrote this for a woman...lol lol Good Job!
lol, the lyrics are “I can almost taste YOUR skin” 😂 that way whatever gender the listener is, they can fill in the blanks 😉 thanks so much for watching 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You gotta give some kind of credit to someone who has the balls, to be so upfront, as to tell you that a phrase in their song sounds "Hans Zimmery".
Hi there what the name of your watch that’s hot!
Lol
Thanks bro! Link for the watch is in the description! 👍🏼
I'm not an expert musician, but this song is kind of flat, cord changes are weak to nonexistent. Reverbs and delays and EQ are not enough to create a good song.
Don’t you think you’re being a little bit too judgmental. I mean this brother is like many of us with this type of equipment are hobbyists and weekend music warriors. Give this guy a break !!!
Indeed. He puts himself at risk showing his process. And the final product. May not be at your taste, but don't be rude.
So I went and checked out your channel, and I think you meant to post this comment to yourself, not here.