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SUPREME THE BEAT MAKER PT.13 – AKAI MPC 2500
Sample snitchers you’re killin’it!
Snitchers get stitches, sample snitchers!
breve storia dell’ Akai MPC (clicca sul link per entrare nella pagina del video)
fonte: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/08/14/a-brief-history-of-the-mpc-in-video-by-current-tv/
A Brief History of the MPC in Video, by Peter Kirn
Sometimes in technology, the design of a product can have an impact
beyond just the tool itself, and that’s easily the case with the Akai
MPC. Even if you aren’t part of the device’s cult-like following, you’ve
likely worked with software influenced by its approach to musical
interaction. While we await the coming of creator Roger Linn’s new
collaboration with Dave Smith, the LinnDrum II, it’s great to look back
at the MPC itself, and the artists who stretched it to its musical
limits, from hip-hop to classical. Current TV has a short documentary
they’ve just sent us.
Current’s Parisa Vahdatinia describes it thusly:
I’d like to share with you a short piece we recently
produced here at Current TV all about the MPC–a brief history, how it
was created by Roger Linn, and how it’s effected contemporary music,
followed with some interviews with Damu The Fudgemunk, P-Fritz,
K-Murdock who share their sentiments on how the MPC has shaped their
music.
I’m just going to have to imagine how great this piece is as
I’m stuck on a train with only phone-as-modem access, so you get to
sort of scoop me. As I wait, there are some great comments up there
already, haiku-like:
“I mistook them for drum machines….”
“mpc is the hip hop guitar!”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. But it raises the question,
given the endless variety of even pre-digital musical instruments,
what’s next? That’s a question I know Roger cares about, which is why he
helped us judge a design challenge last spring. I’m personally excited
by the idea that some designs are already here, and more are likely to
come out of someone’s studio, without the major product maker label on
it.
Okay, now I’ve seen it. Good to be back off
the train and able to download videos. It does come off strangely as an
ad for Akai, but there’s another way to look at it — as an executive
summary of how MPC users describe their axe. Talk to any MPC user, and
you get a case study in why the design of integrated hardware matters to
people. I believe those principles are absolutely applicable to the
design of software, as well. And the immediacy of the monome is entirely
related, as a computer-based instrument, to the MPC as a hardware
instrument. It’s easy to get hung up on the philosophy of instruments,
but what really matters to people is (surprise) sound and how they
manipulate it.
Akai MPC2000 midi production center (anno di uscita 1997)
caratteristiche tecniche:
risoluzione 16 bit 44100 hz; espansione di memoria 32 mb; L+R outputs (non ha la scheda con 8 canali di uscita) con uscita cuffie; floppy drive 3.5"; sistema operativo 1.72
La macchina presenta qualche graffio sullo chassis e ho dovuto pulire le pad da della schifezza che c’era attaccata sopra. Inoltre alcuni tasti non funzionavano ed altri avevano il supporto rotto ed erano stati incollati allo chassis con del silicone barbaramente. Ho mandato la macchina a riparare a Loreto da Master Service che ha fatto un buon lavoro, ma il tecnico deve essersi dimenticato di reinserire la linguetta con i contatti delle pad nel suo zoccoletto prima di rimantare il coperchio della macchina. quindi quando me l’hanno rispedita indietro l’ho dovuta aprire di nuovo e reinserire la linguetta al suo posto (per fortuna avevo visto in un video tutorial come fare a riconnettere le pad qualche giorno prima).
Costo della macchina (più spedizione da Armens Shop, NYC via ebay): 365 €
Costo della riparazione (più spedizione a/r): 80 €
Adesso la macchina funziona bene. Le pad sono ottime e il suono in uscita è bello potente: bassi profondi e suono molto pulito. Campionare nuovi suoni è molto semplice e immediato e il filtro passa bassi è ottimo. Sto già programmando dei beat che suonerò dal vivo nei prossimi giorni.
Spedizioni e attese mi hanno stressato parecchio però e ho anche dovuto comprare una nuova carta prepagata perchè quella che avevo non posso più ricaricarla (!!!). Questi acquisti via internet sono sempre una menata.
Voglio ringraziare Caterina (oltre che per tutto l’amore che mi dai) per avermi aiutato e sopportato nei momenti di crisi e per il manuale utente dell’MPC.
Grazie di cuore
info – Akai MPC Forums – Index page
ho già parlato di questo film documentario in un articolo di qualche tempo fa… ma pare che la settimana prossima sarà trasmesso in tv negli USA quindi volevo aggiornarvi.
fonte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHw8w6il_FQ
Copyright Criminals, a documentary about digital samplings
head-on collision with copyright law, features many of hip-hop musics
celebrated figures —including Public Enemy, De La Soul, the Beastie
Boys, and Digital Underground— as well as emerging artists from record
labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more. The
documentary also provides an in-depth look at artists who have been
sampled, such as former James Brown drummer Clyde Stubblefield, as well
as commentary by another highly sampled musician, funk legend George
Clinton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSTvTLCupgw
Buona visione!