Sample Beat Making Workflow | MPC ONE WORKFLOW

[Applause] [Music] all right so today we're gonna do something a little different i'm actually gonna do a beat in the mpc one and not much focus on details on how i'm doing certain things but more on why i do certain things and my workflows just my mindset while i'm building a sample based boom bap style beat on the mpc one so i want to go ahead and summarize my whole process and so hopefully you guys find some value within this video uh but before i jump into it i got a question for you guys the question of the video is what artists do you guys listen to that's been inspiring you to just go into the studio and make music i know for me it's different every month you know sometimes could be mad lib or j dilla pete rock this month actually i have this artist i don't even know how to say his or her name but it has full of inspiration for me makes me want to come home and make some music the drums on this album are amazing so let us know what artist has been inspiring you guys to make music alright so with that out the way i'm gonna jump right into it uh right here we are on the mpc one and as you guys can see i have a blank session i have a session with just two bars and i always start my sessions at 90 beats per minute i'm obviously gonna probably go lower than 90 or higher i'm not sure but first i'm going to go ahead and sample into the mpc one i actually have this song that i was listening to in the car that just inspired me hopefully this one comes out good as i'm recording with you guys so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go ahead and check the levels making sure that everything is good with my levels all right so once i have my levels set correctly uh on this one i'm not going to go to slice i'm going to just sample [Music] all right i'm going to grab that section i feel really comfortable with that i'm going to go ahead and name this i'm just going to name it chops and right here i'm going to truncate this uh beginning i think it was like a bar i don't need that i just want it on the downbeat go ahead [Music] just about right there go to process discard do it um right now i don't have no drums i i don't you know i wanted to start with the sample because the sample is gonna be the main thing i know the sample is a very powerful sample when it comes down to frequencies so i want to make sure i work with the sample first in this track and then once i have an idea then i'm going to add drums based off of the sample i'm going to go ahead and chop this up i'm gonna go from trim to chop and i'm gonna go to manually and let's go ahead and chop this into quarter notes [Music] so [Music] all right so we got some right there [Music] all right cool so i'm already kind of getting an idea of the direction that i'm gonna take it i'm gonna go ahead and hit shift convert hit do it alright so once we have that again i have a two bar sequence it's only two bars right now i'm not trying to think complexity i'm not trying to think about four bars an intro with that like i don't care about that right now right now i'm just thinking about what strikes me what inspires me just that small little one or two bar loop that caught my attention when i first listened to the song right now i'm going based off of instinct i'm not going based off of structure and i think that's very important the first few seconds well obviously it's been already a few minutes but the initial hit that you get from a sample you want to go ahead and capture that and chop that and lay that down on the mpc before you start playing this sample back over and over and you lose that instinct that you once had which you'll never get back so make sure you get that small section that struck you when you first heard that record i feel like i i you know as you guys can see i filled up bank a and bank b bank a's got some um what is it major notes oh where am i uh i actually had to go to the the program some major notes that's some you know some dark stuff and then it goes to minors oh okay all right so right here this is what where i wanna play with i'm actually filling this section what i'm actually gonna do i'm gonna go to pad colors and i'm gonna color this uh whole thing purple just this program that i'm building so now i know that this bar uh right here is what i'm feeling the most oh yeah okay so that's what i'm talking about that hits me that makes me want to go further so this small section this measure right here is what i'm going to base this off of of course i'm not just going to loop that because that does sound really good but after a few loops is going to get very tiring what i'm going to go ahead and do before i go any further i'm going to program edit and i usually like to go up a few semitones or go down a few semitones in this case let's see how it sounds two semitones down [Music] oh yes definitely alright so i went two semitones down uh what i want to do right now is i'm going to record that i want to capture that initial instinct that i got so i want to make sure we have that down in this sequence [Music] okay my bad uh the tempo was not matching i'm actually glad this happened right now there's so many ways you guys can go about matching the tempo i've made videos so i'll leave links up here what i'm going to do my favorite way in this case i'm going to just tap tempo [Music] is it about 80 beats per minute i'm gonna go ahead and make this 80 and do it and let's lay that down [Music] yeah that's it right there boom that sounds amazing now as you guys saw right here i have bank a and bank b uh i can fly through and and grab little sections or other pads from bank a and and just kind of fly through these different banks so i i can go [Music] you know i can go ahead and go between these two but i don't feel like i have enough to play with i have bank c bank d available and i also have bank e f g h available so i'm gonna go ahead what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go back to the record don't just get stuck on the first few measures of a sample or of a record go back how we're going to do right now i'm going to go back to my sampler now this pad function right here pad tap and pad hold allows me to add snippets of this record into my already put together program which is awesome like i love that you can do that that's it's crazy i love that so i'm gonna go to uh pad tap and i'm gonna go to bank c and bank d so i'm gonna go ahead and play hit play on this record and see what else we can find [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right see that's what i'm talking about um so as you guys can see now i have bank a filled up with some samples bank b which what i like and then bank c [Music] [Applause] i don't know if you guys uh have worked with other samplers before but just being able to add to my already made program allows me to have the flexibility of building something and then if i want to add to it it's so easy to add and i don't have to create a separate program i'm sorry i'm probably focusing on that too much but that's awesome i love that i can do that what i'm going to do is before i go any further with the sample i'm going to jump over to the drums i'm going to lay down some drums it's just some basic drums and the reason why i'm going over to the drums is because i have kind of like the main idea of what i want to do with this beat now i want to lay down some drums once i have drums laid out i'll go back to this sample and i'm going to start building like the intro the verse and some variation within this beat so let's go ahead and surf for some drums i'm gonna go right here and go to my samples there's so many kicks i don't know what i i don't like to solo the kick and select you know like i don't know if it's gonna sound good i'm gonna hit play on this loop that i have and i'm gonna just cue a few of these samples or drum shots and see which ones fit with the sample you know because every sample is going to sound different different frequencies it's just not all going to be the same so this kick might sound nasty by itself but with that sample on top of it it might sound good i will not know unless i hit play and i cue these shots up so let's go ahead and do that [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so that sounds good [Music] alright so i went ahead and built my drum program it takes a very long time it's not something that you do very quick but once you have everything that you you know you think these high hats the snares the kicks might work together now i'm gonna go ahead and start building again we're still in a two bar loop uh i'm not gonna make it too complex right now i'm gonna keep it within two bars and build the boom bap style of rhythm so i'm gonna go to my uh grid editor and i'm gonna go ahead and play with this and see what we come up with [Music] all right so right there we have a two bar drum loop something that i can work with and i'm gonna go now i'm gonna go back to my chops and i can build from there since i now have an idea of how the drum sound and how the sample sounds together now what i'll do from two bars i'll go ahead and hit this little pencil icon and i'm gonna hit double length so now is gonna be four bars now four bars is you know a pretty good length that i can play with what i'm gonna do is right here on my chops i'm gonna delete what i have uh the reason why i'm deleting it is because now that i have my other banks you know c and d filled up i now know that i i can play with a lot more than just that loop so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go ahead and lay down an intro for this and i i kind of have an idea of the intro on bank d i have the choir section maybe we can start with the choir section as the intro and then we'll drop into the drums [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right so let's go ahead and copy that copy that sequence i'm going to go to sequence two name that verse hit do it now we're on sequence two let's go back to our drums let's unmute the drums because i want the drums to kick in right here and now our this will be our drop so our drop is actually uh i don't know i can actually have fun so what i'll do is let's perform this let's see how it's gonna sound [Music] all right so now i have four bars now that i have this and it sounds interesting to me i like how this sounds as you guys see it's like is is like one bar right here and then on the second bar i do these other pads which i dig in through other banks add those and then we go back to this bank b and continue and then we go back to another bank and you know we go back so i don't know if this is making sense but what i'm going to do is i'm going to go back to my drums and as we do those little cuts right here i can probably drop out the drums or do something different with the drums in those little sections to add some type of emphasis on that break so let's go ahead and probably loop this small section here [Music] so [Music] all right so as you guys can see i'm now playing with this i'm going based off of the flow again it's instinct within me right now that some of these cuts some of these breaks might sound ridiculous or they might not even fit with how it should come out but i want to make sure my messy brain or the artist within me comes out right now and i'm recording this into this pen and pad this is like my scratch paper maybe some of these cuts are like ridiculous you guys are probably like man what the hell is this guy doing but it's better to lay down your craziness and then later on if you're not really feeling it you can always take it away all right so i really like how this is coming along it sounds good it feels good to me i'm enjoying what i'm getting out of this one thing what i'll do at this point when i have my drums and my sample sequence uh there's a setting on the mpc this is on all the newer npcs this is awesome like i've never owned a vintage npc like the 60 or the sp 1200 nor do i know how those machines sound but if you guys go to your preferences on your mpc go to general and on general there's vintage mode mpc60 like i mean these all sound pretty good you know sp sp 1200 ring it could be a hit or miss for some people but mpc60 it adds some awesome punch to my entire session i love what it does again i'm not here to say it sounds like a 60 or it doesn't sound like a 60. i don't care if it sounds like an npc60 it just sounds good i'm gonna leave that engaged and it's gonna smack a lot harder versus well i'm not gonna say a lot harder because it is not a night and day difference but it does add a bit more punch to my entire session so that's something that i engage at this point [Music] now one last thing i'm gonna skim through i'm actually gonna make a video on this specific section but i'm actually going to show you guys because i was really excited to do this um i enjoy using the rc20 i don't know if you guys heard of the rrc 20 but it's an awesome plug-in that you can use in your daw which you know replicates vinyl and gives you i don't know there's just so many like lo-fi presets that sound awesome so what i did is i actually built a signal chain and i replicated the sound of a lo-fi i think it was the vinyl 3 on the rc-20 setting it sounds very identical uh there's probably minor differences but it sounds really good it does give my my track like a vinyl sound to it so right now i'm going to add that to this sample track i'll go to my inserts i actually have it saved already on my sd card i go to mallow's plugin i have vinyl3rc i'm going to go ahead and engage that hit load and it's filling up my four instances of plugins which i want to be able to do this with just three because i want to have a free a plug-in slot for let's say uh mother ducker right now i'm filling them all up i'm still working on this chain but i'm gonna let you guys hear what it does this is with no this is without the the signal chain [Music] all right sorry you guys heard the difference but this is with a dry [Music] so it just adds like a lo-fi sound to it and it's very similar to the vinyl 3 on the rc 20. now if you guys want to even go a step further to make it sound more like of a vinyl go to program edit and you go to lfos go to the i'll probably go up to six uh dotted 16th notes go to my pitch it's gonna sound stupid right now but let's just hear this [Music] actually my bad make sure all is selected and now we're on the dotted notes go to the pitch and let's hear this [Music] all right right here and now i'm obviously not gonna go that drastic i'll probably go to like a three percent pitch [Music] so at the end of the day i'm not even trying to make it sound exactly the same which it obviously is not going to sound exactly the same but it's it's actually very identical to the vinyl 3 setting but it definitely adds a lo-fi sound to the my signal to my my track again we'll hear without any of these instances [Music] i hope you guys are finding value out of this video and if you guys are don't forget to give it a thumbs up and also don't forget to subscribe if you're not subscribed to the channel already uh again guys thank you so much if you've made it to this part of the video i highly appreciate you guys taking your time out of your day to watch some of my videos thank you guys so much you guys have a blessed day i'll catch you guys on our next video peace [Applause] [Music] so [Music] you

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Length: 24min 2sec (1442 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 16 2021