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[MYAMS]

Originally Posted by deegodbe

why what's wrong with that?
I think he is great in both ways, as he can make a chopped sample style beat and his sample free instrumentals are great as well.
Did you check all of his videos?
I've just posted this one as this is his first video using the Mpd.
some of my favorite producers are: preemo, pete rock, dilla, the beatminerz and so on, maybe we are listening to different type of hip-hop?

yeah I did, as a rule of thumb I would never look up to someone who sells beats for $25 on soundclick lmao

Stick with primo, dilla, pete rock

[KevWest]

Originally Posted by MYAMS

yeah I did, as a rule of thumb I would never look up to someone who sells beats for $25 on soundclick lmao

Stick with primo, dilla, pete rock

why not if he has heat who cares what he sells the beats for.

[deegodbe]

Originally Posted by MYAMS

yeah I did, as a rule of thumb I would never look up to someone who sells beats for $25 on soundclick lmao

Stick with primo, dilla, pete rock

I don't get your point, is it too much or is it too cheap?
He is a great beatmaker and for me that's a fact but we are not going to argue about that.

[ether88]

I would never look up to someone who sells beats for $25 on soundclick lmao

im 99& sure he was refereeing to thats too cheap
- either the beats are whammer, or the "beat maker" undervalues his work, soundclick is also not that highly looked apon by too many professional.

after seeing the video- look at his gear/his room/ect. hes ok, but nothing new.

the price point says alot about the work and the person, if people realize it or not.

[MYAMS]

Lol yall don't got ears... ears are the key to making music

Selling leases for $25 is a cop out

[MYAMS]

Originally Posted by ether88

im 99& sure he was refereeing to thats too cheap
- either the beats are whammer, or the "beat maker" undervalues his work, soundclick is also not that highly looked apon by too many professional.

after seeing the video- look at his gear/his room/ect. hes ok, but nothing new.

the price point says alot about the work and the person, if people realize it or not.

very good, you are a sensible person

[3rd Degree]

Though I have basically moved on in many ways from hardware, I still enjoy it and that setup looks good to me.

I have a love/hate relationship with my ASR 10. It has only crashed on me 2x but both were very far into the song so I don't trust it. The problem is you never know how reliable one is until it fails. Some are rock solid, most have minor hicups, some are just problematic. Other samplers of the era usually have obvious faults or not, they don't randomly crash every few months.

I would probably throw in atleast one modern rack. I think a motif would fit well and could probably replace one on your list easily. It is clean but also far more "usuable" than most of what you listed IMO.

Otherwise, I think it is a good setup. I am unfamiliar with the TT though.

[MotifStudios]

Originally Posted by xabiton

why not if he has heat who cares what he sells the beats for.

Generally people look up to those who have done well and have succeeded; if you inspire to sell beats for $25, he would be a great inspiration. If you inspire to sell beats for $150,000, he isn't a great inspiration.

Surround yourself by successful people = become successful.

How you gona ask if $25 is too much or too cheap? Lol. wheres your business head bro?

So +1 To Myams

I mean thats if you want all that success though. If you just feel dudes music and want to make music as good as him, and believe his music is great, then go for it.. let him inspire u.

[MYAMS]

Originally Posted by MotifStudios

Generally people look up to those who have done well and have succeeded; if you inspire to sell beats for $25, he would be a great inspiration. If you inspire to sell beats for $150,000, he isn't a great inspiration.

Surround yourself by successful people = become successful.

How you gona ask if $25 is too much or too cheap? Lol. wheres your business head bro?

So +1 To Myams

I mean thats if you want all that success though. If you just feel dudes music and want to make music as good as him, and believe his music is great, then go for it.. let him inspire u.

word but you mised the biggest point, peeps who sell beats for $35 make crap

[jbrown1music]

Originally Posted by MYAMS

word but you mised the biggest point, peeps who sell beats for $35 make crap

i quadruple that. If ya goal is to be a soundclick producer to sell beats for 25 dollars just go ahead and hang yaself. We humans can accomplish a lot with goals and planning. I dont know any professionals that ever wanted to sell beats that cheap. If thats all the money u can just give them away for free. If i was a so called hot rapper i would feel pretty insulted if someonse asked me for 25 for a beat. My thinkin would be whats 25 gonna do for u. But if a six pack, 4 chixken wings and dime bag is all thy worth to you then so be it

[MYAMS]

Originally Posted by jbrown1music

i quadruple that. If ya goal is to be a soundclick producer to sell beats for 25 dollars just go ahead and hang yaself. We humans can accomplish a lot with goals and planning. I dont know any professionals that ever wanted to sell beats that cheap. If thats all the money u can just give them away for free. If i was a so called hot rapper i would feel pretty insulted if someonse asked me for 25 for a beat. My thinkin would be whats 25 gonna do for u. But if a six pack, 4 chixken wings and dime bag is all thy worth to you then so be it

lol and for the guys gonna say, o well some guys are on there making 8k a month

Thats great, its a good hustle, those people have good internet marketing, SEO skills but if you are hot your gonna want to turn this into more of a career and work with more legit artists

Theres many ways to make 8k a month, selling beats for $25 to mixtape fools ain't a career as a music producer

[MotifStudios]

Originally Posted by MYAMS

word but you mised the biggest point, peeps who sell beats for $35 make crap

lol haha.. that's the truth really! thumbsup

[DaKid]

Boonie's a cool dude and he's talented... It's inspiring to see a dude with such a minimal setup making some dope sh!t and having a good time doing it. If you watched his older videos (which it seems like most of you haven't), dudes just rockin out on an MPC monitoring through laptop speakers having a blast and comin up with some cool stuff.

Who cares how much he sells his beats for? If he sold his beats for $50,000 would he all of a sudden be a dope producer to you?

[KevWest]

Originally Posted by MotifStudios

Generally people look up to those who have done well and have succeeded; if you inspire to sell beats for $25, he would be a great inspiration. If you inspire to sell beats for $150,000, he isn't a great inspiration.

Surround yourself by successful people = become successful.

How you gona ask if $25 is too much or too cheap? Lol. wheres your business head bro?

So +1 To Myams

I mean thats if you want all that success though. If you just feel dudes music and want to make music as good as him, and believe his music is great, then go for it.. let him inspire u.

lets define success because for some people they are just wanting to make good music while others could care less about the music and only want to make money. Most people making music don't start because they want to make a bunch of money its because they heard a dope song and it made them want to make music too the money shouldn't be the motivation to do what you want to do besides that music money is too slow for anyone whos really after cash. The real money is in medicine. If you want to make great money start a pharmaceutical company and make one of those drugs they show on TV, be a lawyer or a doctor or something like that. Now yes once you become a business in music you aspire to make money but why again aspire to make Dj Premier money when you can chase some Puffy money or some Jay Z money.

[KevWest]

Originally Posted by MYAMS

word but you mised the biggest point, peeps who sell beats for $35 make crap

I have heard a lot of dope beats for under $100

[GregR]

Originally Posted by CRC

I just want feedback, suggestions, things I've missed?

I don't think think there's anything worng with your setup if you want to work that way. Although I do agree that you can replace the EMU's with softsynths since they're effectively just romplers anyway.

Two things missing: EQ and something to record onto. The summing mixer won't give you a good mix as you can't treat each track to fit. So I'd recommend a mixer in place of the summing box. Then record direct to your Mac. With a mixer you can always add more eq and dynamics in the future to use as inserts.

[KevWest]

Originally Posted by DaKid

Boonie's a cool dude and he's talented... It's inspiring to see a dude with such a minimal setup making some dope sh!t and having a good time doing it. If you watched his older videos (which it seems like most of you haven't), dudes just rockin out on an MPC monitoring through laptop speakers having a blast and comin up with some cool stuff.

Who cares how much he sells his beats for? If he sold his beats for $50,000 would he all of a sudden be a dope producer to you?

exactly good music is good music. I understand Myams pov about being aspiring to sell beats for $20 and I agree that if your goal is to sell beats for $20 then you should just stop selling them at all but for a lot of people they are simply just trying to sell beats and they are high school kids. In high school $20 is good money for some beats they made on stolen software. There are so many doing it now that everyone who is attempting to sell online kind of has to start with a bar that low and work up.

[deegodbe]

Originally Posted by DaKid

Boonie's a cool dude and he's talented... It's inspiring to see a dude with such a minimal setup making some dope sh!t and having a good time doing it. If you watched his older videos (which it seems like most of you haven't), dudes just rockin out on an MPC monitoring through laptop speakers having a blast and comin up with some cool stuff.

Who cares how much he sells his beats for? If he sold his beats for $50,000 would he all of a sudden be a dope producer to you?

that's what I was trying to emphasize. thumbsupI have to say again: I think we are approaching the subject from two totally different ways.

[blizzy]

Hey how do you connect your asr-10 to logic?

[phillysoulman]

Originally Posted by blizzy

Hey how do you connect your asr-10 to logic?

midi cable from asr 10 to midi in on your computer

[KevWest]

Originally Posted by blizzy

Hey how do you connect your asr-10 to logic?

Let me google that for you

[oxide54]

Originally Posted by KevWest

Let me google that for you

i love the way the first result is this thread!

[SecretSociety]

Originally Posted by ether88

im 99& sure he was refereeing to thats too cheap
- either the beats are whammer, or the "beat maker" undervalues his work, soundclick is also not that highly looked apon by too many professional.

after seeing the video- look at his gear/his room/ect. hes ok, but nothing new.

the price point says alot about the work and the person, if people realize it or not.

Gear has nothing to do with skills and creativity.....

This psych rock joint is a killer to me, one of the best things i´ve ever heard in this hiphop section !

Judging him by the gear he uses at the creation process sounds hilarious to me.

Nowadays there is nothing wrong about selling beats on soundclick for 25 dollars i think...if he is able to sell ten beats, he will be able to buy some more outboard gear or whatever he needs to improve his workflow or results.

Peace aus Berlin

[HOAS]

I think his setup maybe a little bit well more thought out than people making it out to be. Now the emu modules i agree with, if you got a proteus 2000 take the roms out of the other modules and put those in there. As far as being "outdated" people still using the proteus 2000 sounds so ya'll fools "stop fronting"!. And nothing wrong with the 2000xl either, but looking at your setup i can see your going for a "vintage" sound, which is why he choosing more "hardware" than "software" solutions. Damn thought you guys would've caught on to that. Maybe throw in a s950 for 12 bit grit on them drums, no software can emulate that!

Also a motif would fit well in that mix to, probably be your main "go to" for sounds and the proteus 2000 would be good just to add some icing on the cake when needed. And as far as people saying "get logic", why? he gotta mpc? And a asr 10 for sampling, yes logic got some good sounds but they ain't "all that"!. Reason 5 could be just as powerful with protools 8. You already got the Speck for summing but what about AD/DA converter? To take advantage of that you will need a hi-end D/A to convert those to the speck and A/D to send back to the DAW. Than pick up ominisphere, and hypersonic, and some rob papens for synth sounds and call it a day. Oh and can't forget trillian for bass.

[Marshall Oliver]

Originally Posted by HOAS

I think his setup maybe a little bit well more thought out than people making it out to be. Now the emu modules i agree with, if you got a proteus 2000 take the roms out of the other modules and put those in there. As far as being "outdated" people still using the proteus 2000 sounds so ya'll fools "stop fronting"!. And nothing wrong with the 2000xl either, but looking at your setup i can see your going for a "vintage" sound, which is why he choosing more "hardware" than "software" solutions. Damn thought you guys would've caught on to that. Maybe throw in a s950 for 12 bit grit on them drums, no software can emulate that!

Also a motif would fit well in that mix to, probably be your main "go to" for sounds and the proteus 2000 would be good just to add some icing on the cake when needed. And as far as people saying "get logic", why? he gotta mpc? And a asr 10 for sampling, yes logic got some good sounds but they ain't "all that"!. Reason 5 could be just as powerful with protools 8. You already got the Speck for summing but what about AD/DA converter? To take advantage of that you will need a hi-end D/A to convert those to the speck and A/D to send back to the DAW. Than pick up ominisphere, and hypersonic, and some rob papens for synth sounds and call it a day. Oh and can't forget trillian for bass.

Huh?!?

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