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Beneficial · 2nd June 2009

I just got this MPC 60 after about 10 years of making beats in the computer. It definitely has a much different feel, a lot better than Cubase. I'll be using it to control modules and vsts... I haven't sync'd it to Cubase yet but I will be trying that soon. In Cubase you can use the midi modifiers like random positioning, and midi time shift along with quantizing using swing settings and you can make it groove a little better but it takes a lot of work and still doesn't come close to the instant tight yet natural "real drummer" feel of the MPC for some reason. I think it's because when you use the midi modifier in Cubase to make the positions randomly late by a fracation of a millisecond (trying to emulate what the MPC does) it forces EVERY single midi note to be randomly late where in the MPC it's not every note that is late... you might have a few notes dead on and then one slightly late and the whole thing moves together like that.... every track does that so it sounds more like a real drummer.

2nd June 2009	#140
Beneficial Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 648	I just got this MPC 60 after about 10 years of making beats in the computer. It definitely has a much different feel, a lot better than Cubase. I'll be using it to control modules and vsts... I haven't sync'd it to Cubase yet but I will be trying that soon. In Cubase you can use the midi modifiers like random positioning, and midi time shift along with quantizing using swing settings and you can make it groove a little better but it takes a lot of work and still doesn't come close to the instant tight yet natural "real drummer" feel of the MPC for some reason. I think it's because when you use the midi modifier in Cubase to make the positions randomly late by a fracation of a millisecond (trying to emulate what the MPC does) it forces EVERY single midi note to be randomly late where in the MPC it's not every note that is late... you might have a few notes dead on and then one slightly late and the whole thing moves together like that.... every track does that so it sounds more like a real drummer.