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emzae's avatar

So cool to hear you’ve got an MPC LIVE! Hope you love it. I’ve had the original one for a few years now and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever owned :) super powerful!

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

Oh excellent! MPC One or one of the older ones? I’m so happy I took the plunge, I’m having FUN.

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emzae's avatar

no the original MPC Live, so I guess the MPC Live 1?! Haha

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Nigel Donovan's avatar

I admire your tenacity and your work ethic! Purely selfish of course, I want to hear the results of your endeavours x

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

I will be offering a way to hear it next week, funnily enough :) watch this space xo

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mister snappy's avatar

It’s all healing in its own way. Even buying cool electronica on the interwebs! I did and I can’t even play the damn things (yet).

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

I couldn't til last Monday! Thank you for the encouragement x ps what cool electronica have you got waiting for you?

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mister snappy's avatar

Arturia Microfreak and an Moog Mavis with a Roland AIRA T8 on the way. Deep learning required. Might even read the manuals!

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

I found the Microfreak fairly intuitive but as I'm in learning mode already am going to do some proper tutorial learning with that next. The T8 looks like a lot of fun!

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Include The Exclusion's avatar

After reading this - I thought of the Beatles Helter Skelter but with the words Not a Sponsor - "You may be a company, but you ain't no sponsor! Not a Sponsor (deer-neer-neer-neer-neer-neer-neer), Not a Sponsor (doobie-doobie-deer-neer-neer), Not a Sponsor (deer-neer-neer-neer-neer-neer-neer)" I have a Behringer RD-6 and it's definitely meant for live, on-the-fly drumming - although it's good for a steady beat and it doesn't intimidate me to learn. I usually begin with a the recording the drum/beats, so if I get comfortable at the controls - I can customize the sound as it goes so as not be redundant (I keep it simple, but I can use semi-big words like Redundant). As far a sampling - HA! I once had a Roland Dr. Sample SP-202...which sounds like the beginning of a poem. It played samples backwards, that was a rabbit hole I went down. The reason for my "HA" is that I recently recorded an instrumental song and used my old faithful cassette tape recorder as my "Sample" machine - little quips and pieces related to early computer voice synthesis.

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

Oh this all sounds very fun. BIG fan of backwards samples, me.

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Include The Exclusion's avatar

Cool. I think I had one too many cups of coffee with my last comment. Yep.

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

No such thing!

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Seth Werkheiser's avatar

Jon Makes Beats is so sweet. Can't wait to hear more of what you're cooking up!!

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

Yay, thanks Seth!

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Jeff “H” Harrington's avatar

It’s really great that you’re expanding your palette so much. I can relate to the frustration of having so many ideas - I’m trying to dismantle my perfectionism so I can work faster, and I’m also trying to be much more careful about which songs I choose to fully produce

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend's avatar

This all sounds very smart!

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