@Threezy's World the spirit of making beats is having fun while u make them and hardware instruments are way funnier than a mouse and a keyboard. :) if u don’t understand my point it’s probably cus u have never tried.

You don't need anything. The spirit of making beats is figuring out ways to work around your limitations. Also the other think is more stuff equals more stuff to learn.

@Navie D I look at it from this perspective. Because I'm such an intelligent genius. Pizza. Yes... Pizza. Everyone would agree that pizza from a brick oven has a very very distinct taste. Quite delicious actually. Not hard to imitate, but your average pizza eater probably can't tell you "why" they like brick oven pizza. Or why it tastes better. They just know that it tastes different, and to some, waaaay better than regular ol shitty pizza. Now, you can put all the ingredients together that you want, using every recipe at your disposal and make pretty damn good pizza at home in your oven. Shit, you could even go to Home Goods (if you don't mind funny gay jokes about Home Goods from your friends) and buy one of those little pizza stone thingys and get pretty close to a pizza that tastes like it's from a brick friggin oven. But it's not brick oven pizza. And it never will be. Now I know there are probably flaws in my analogy, and I'm sure the FL lunatics are gonna jump all over me because, well, you know, complexes and stuff. And I know that daws like FL and Abelton etc all come with so many bells and whistles (literally and figuratively) that can be used to replicate just about any sound known to man. In fact, I'm pretty sure that you can make a feather landing on a bed 100 feet away from your microphone sound like an ostrich farting with the right halftime and compressor settings, but there is something that happens when you are using a piece of hardware like an MPC that no plugin or one shot can replicate. And that's your performance. There is an energy that gets captured in the music that can't be explained. The same way that Photoshop, no matter how sophisticated of a program, can never duplicate the sheer awesomeness of an end to end graffiti burner. Or a guitar plugin can never duplicate an actual guitar plugged in. (Wordplay bars) Yes, people can make amazing sounding music with the tools available today, obviously. And don't get me wrong, I am a fan of many who use FL exclusively. And sure, the average listener probably can't tell the difference between a beat made on FL vs one made on an MPC and they probably could give a shit less even if they could hear the difference. But there is definitely a reason why so many mouse click beatmakers are trying to replicate an MPC. Cheers.

Facts, it's not debatable either. We don't make music for the "end user" unless you're a proud bot....we make music to have fun, hardware is fun af.

@Navie D I agree. For me imitating how hardware would sound is like a good sudoku.

Here's a fun fact: 10 or more years ago, I used to put the word "MPC" in the name of some of the beats I made in FL Studio and rappers would assume that they were made using my MPC1000 or 2000xl. Of course, if they asked I told them that they were 100% made in FL and show them...sometimes they chose a different beat to buy and sometimes they stuck with their choice lol.

I do like that concept of self-imposed limitations. That can, at times, foster a lot more creativity

Thank you idk!

Yep. Fantastic tip 👍🏿

I am here to help!

As often as you may say it, it still feels nice reading it my friend

Glad I can help slz!

Thank you Debo!

Facts!!

I agree with this wholeheartedly!

How kind, thank you Arian!

Ayyy thank you Heath! I do enjoy making them

He dropped some jewels here too!! 💪🏾

I have not read those. The only book on art that I've read is the War of Art, very good book

Grimy! Thank you as always for being here my friend

Thank you Cris!

@Navie D definitely, I've done it for years. It's a time saver for me and I find myself doing less making it "sound right" than just making the music.

@Mark Bruggeman yes but The reason all those saturation plugins is to emulate the what the MPC does automatically. It doesn't sound all clean and digital. All I need is a little eq compression to tame the drums. Then I add everything else in the daw. MPC has plugins too tho. It's basically a computer that does one thing extremely well.

With all the FX with FL you can make even sound better in my opinion

You can't imitate it exactly, but you can get a similar enough sound with the right tools in my opinion

Omar! Glad to see you're still here my friend

@Navie D "one mic, one gun." yo, check out the rap challenge I hosted when you get the chance. I love spreading the love in the name of hip hop.

Thank you Sunny! I checked out a few of the tracks. Any standouts that you would recommend?

Also map the MIDI notes to the lowest octave, so all your drums are in the lowest part of Piano Roll. Save that

🚮 😂. These snare tips though… 🫡

i think it does the job 😂👍🏾

@Navie D you're a pro who's been in it for a while. I've seen people do it before and make great beats. It's ok for people who know the software. But as a newbie and a organ/keyboard player it's more of my element to use a midi board and maschine.

It is fun using more tactile hardware (for me at least)

I am happy that I am able to help Xerxes!

Great drums in that tune!

Hahah this isn't an attack! Feel free to use whatever you want my friend

Ayyeeeeeeeeeee

Correct. You will be making lump of coal type beats in 2023

@Navie D u know i’m right tho

@Navie D 🤣

🤣🤣🤣 if your ever having a bad day go straight to the comments, a guaranteed laugh lol

we got a real edgelord over here

I hope you're having a great one too Tbone

@Clutch Hawks Most of my favorite boom bap beats have the kick louder than the snare as well, I can’t really think of many where snare is actually louder.

For Boom bap?

I can show you plenty of beats where that's not true

Thank you Tbone

I would say you are mixing up efficiency with effectiveness. Just because it may be slower/boring (for you), it is still achievable without hardware. That is all I state in this video.

@Matthew Trotta are you a course member?

Honestly the videos that are on the TRshow are better then the course videos

wowzers

I still love you

Ayyyyyyyyy don't worry my friend. Everything I said in the video applies no matter what you use

@Navie D i went to Benzema and did ask him if he was Naive D

@Navie D Hahah, if you get a buzz cut you could have a career as a Karim impersonator

A group of spanish kids recently came up to me and asked if they could take a pic with me because I look like Benzema. This is ruining my life