> I can't fathom how he thinks it's so intuitive. It's taken me months and years and lots of manual-reading, 3rd party manuals and numerous videos to understand what is basically just a daw.
I bought an MPC 1 about 3 weeks into covid lockdown (strange memories). But I found that it was awesome for laying down simple and pretty awesome sounding beats, compared to my Logic + Launchpad setup. I have Ableton too but have never gotten around to learning it. On MPC, I ramped up pretty quickly on simple beats -- especially once I figured out I had to stop treating it like a DAW.
The record-while-looping is fantastic, and the MPC sample kits are nearly "production ready" (I mean, from my hobbyist perspective, who also owns a zillion drum libraries which never sound as good as in the demo tracks).
Over a couple of months I laid down 100 projects, and some turned out not terrible. A lot of fun. So in that sense it was definitely intuitive.
On the other hand, I found it excruciating when I wanted to learn deeper features. The MPC Bible is not a fun read. And the whole business of copying sequences never really fit me, compared to in logic being able to quick copy different pieces of tracks around and tweak and go back and edit curves, etc. I think it must be that to really make the most out of MPC, your mindset has to be: lay something down, commit, and move on.
I'm inspired to pick it up again though. It's a lot of fun every time I do.
I bought an MPC 1 about 3 weeks into covid lockdown (strange memories). But I found that it was awesome for laying down simple and pretty awesome sounding beats, compared to my Logic + Launchpad setup. I have Ableton too but have never gotten around to learning it. On MPC, I ramped up pretty quickly on simple beats -- especially once I figured out I had to stop treating it like a DAW.
The record-while-looping is fantastic, and the MPC sample kits are nearly "production ready" (I mean, from my hobbyist perspective, who also owns a zillion drum libraries which never sound as good as in the demo tracks).
Over a couple of months I laid down 100 projects, and some turned out not terrible. A lot of fun. So in that sense it was definitely intuitive.
On the other hand, I found it excruciating when I wanted to learn deeper features. The MPC Bible is not a fun read. And the whole business of copying sequences never really fit me, compared to in logic being able to quick copy different pieces of tracks around and tweak and go back and edit curves, etc. I think it must be that to really make the most out of MPC, your mindset has to be: lay something down, commit, and move on.
I'm inspired to pick it up again though. It's a lot of fun every time I do.