Akai MPC Tutorial. Faster WORKFLOW. Templates to help production, mixing & mastering. FREE TEMPLATE
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- In this video, I explain the benefits of templates, how they can help speed up your workflow, prevent slowing creativity, and how to set them up, save them, and load them.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:30 The Concept
02:00 The Main Screen
03:28 Sampler Mode
05:04 Gain Staging Set Up
06:55 Returns Set Up
08:04 Master Bus Set Up
09:33 Program Edit
10:49 Save and Load
13:26 Outro
FREE Template:
drive.google.com/file/d/1UWM_...
For mixing and mastering services feel free to email me at: conan@thecratesmotel.com
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Equipment I use:
Headphones:
Audeze LCD-X
Beyerdynamic 770/880/1990
Shure 535
Sennheiser HD25 MKII
Pioneer HDJ X10
Aiaiaia TMA-2 Wireless+
Reference Monitors:
Genelec 8020D
Presonus Studio One 6
RME ADI-2 DAC FS
Audient Evo 16
Audient SP8
Presonus HP4 (My Grot Box)
Presonus Faderport V2
Arturia Minilab MKII
Novation 49SL MKII
Arturia Microlab
Akai MPC One
Akai MPC Live II
Roland SP404 Mk2
Isla Instruments S2400
Omni Portable Turntable
Content Creation:
Presonus Revelator IO24
Zoom H6 Recorder
Earthworks Custom Icon Pro Microphone
Sennheiser MKE 600 Microphone
Logitech Brio 4k Cam
Apple iPhone 12
DJI Osmo Mobile 6
OC White Ultima Mic Arm
Davinci Resolve
Filmic Pro
Knobs:
www.amazon.com/dp/B07TXYBB7Z
Data Wheel:
www.amazon.com/dp/B08R5THKZD 
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Awesome video just got an MPC keys 37 last month new to the MPC world this helped alot we appreciate you down here in San Antonio TX 🙏
You're welcome dude. Enjoy making beats!!
My favorite MPC guy 👍🏻
Thanks for watching man, I appreciate it
💯
First! Let’s see what I’m going to learn today.
Hopefully something that will put a smile on your face and please your MPC. Thanks for watching.
Cheers Conan
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
The professor is back and class is in. MPC MVP.
Couldn't agree with this more . This guy creates the best MPC content hands down
Aww thanks for the support dude, I appreciate it.
Thanks for watching dude
The best on RUclips dude. Humble. Real. No BS. Thank you.
Thanks man, I appreciate it.
I was lazy to set up the template for years! Thank you for the perfect hint and the downloadable tamplate! Pure gold!
You’re welcome. Thank you for watching.
I'm making a project template for the Force right now. The more advanaced macro system on the Force makes is little more tedious to set it up for all the gear that I'm using for this main template. Maaaaan! this thing is a process, but will be worth it when it's done. Now when I transfer my old SP-505 MPC-2500 beats to the Force they all boring stuff out of the way. I'll pass this around for the MPC users.
It’s definitely worth taking the time to do the preparation. Yeh I agree, it can be a bit boring and tedious but definitely worth it. That would be great if you could share it. Thanks man.
Thanks again, This is very helpful Conan....
You're welcome, thank you for watching
Really looking forward to a gain staging episode as mentioned. I'm looking forward to trying your template
@@BackToTheBMX Enjoy my friend
great stuff, thank-you, I have learned so much from your channel.
You’re welcome dude. Spread the knowledge. 🙏🏼
Nice one - first thing I did when I got the keys 61- but still some useful tips. Oh and just bought both the sample albums vol1 & 2. Nice work. You open to suggestions for vol 3? LOL.
Hey man, ah it was you, thank you, I appreciate it. I actually pretty much have up to Volume 20 worked out. They just need to be edited and mastered. But I am always open to suggestions. Hit me up dude and thanks again conan@thecratesmotel.com
@@TheCratesMotel Well done for spotting the sale :) I just thought that a nice idea would be to have snare fills and tom fills. I'm pretty useless at playing them, and usually end up spending far too much time in the grid trying to get them sounding convincing. An album full of fills would be great for the untalented percussionists!
@@stevekirkby6570 Good shout
🤔 I didn't know about the samples
Great gain staging technique. I never thought to do that with any MPC i've owned, but it totally makes sense!
Thanks for watching dude
Gold content as always!
Thank you for watching
I appreciate you. Props from Oakland
Thanks for watching. Appreciation from Dubai.
Thank you very much for your work. Very informative videos.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching dude.
Almost exactly what I have, good insights as usual, good job!
Thanks for watching dude
Gratitude 🤝🏾 this will help me gravitate to the mpc a little more when I want to do a quick cook up!
Yeh man. The MPC is perfect for sketching. Thank you for watching.
Thanks brotha!
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching.
Templates really are useful. I finally created a template in Studio One awhile back and it’s great to be able to just start creating without having to set the same things up every time.
Exactly
Great tutorial. I just updated my template thanks to you! I also added midi template for Korg Nanokontrol 2 to use it as a track mixer.
Awesome. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
I have a peculiar workflow with the mpc but what I do is all the sound design first (I like the challenge of making everything from scratch) and then I’ll make loops out everything but the kick and snare and basically build a performance kit.
I put a ducker input on the kick/snare and then send everything else into a sub mix with a mother ducker for sidechain.
Then I “perform” the song if that makes sense.
It’s not conventional and can definitely be more trouble than what it’s worth when you can just sequence stuff in midi but resampling is so essential to my sound design-especially with limited effects. Plus this workflow ticks all the boxes of production skills to acquire within the mpc
Cool thanks for sharing
You’re me if I’d followed my dream. The least I can do is give a like and a follow 😅
Thanks for watching. The dream is still there!
Thank you for the video, it’s great, i just stumbled onto your channel and subbed immediately!! Haha this definately helps me out. Quick question, after gain staging, do you just leave the master volume on the back of the mpc all the way up then?
Hey buddy, that’s a very good question. The physical volume on the back shouldn’t make any difference to the actual settings on your levels and fx chains. It’s just for monitoring or analog record out purposes, so I’ll just set it to a level that is comfortable to work with.
Ex-so-lent info.
Than kew sir 🙏🏼
I haven’t thought this through on the MPC yet, but one thing I do in my DAW is to put a utility on the master, and push it up by 6db. That way, when I’m producing and I see the master level just hitting red on occasion, I know that I can take that utility off and have a -6db mix. Could be useful on the MPC also… 🤔
Yes definitely. Kind of the same principle, but in reverse. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, thanks for this video/ I have extracted the files to drive then put onto desktop after unzipping. I dragged the template into a templates folder on mpc ssd when in controller mode. When I try and launch the template it says missing files. Im unsure what the issue is as its just the 6 files or settings along with html in one download and the executable? mpc style file in another. I put them both in a sub folder separately within the same file and also tried placing them in space but no luck. Any idea what the issue is?
Thanks a lot. Do youalso mix with those beyerdynamic headphone?
Thanks for watching dude. I check the low end with them sometimes as they’re closed back. My mixing headphones are Audeze LCD-X but I also use Beyerdynamic 1990 to check the highs and high mids.
Conan again with the sauce! Does using inputs on the sampler bake them into the sample? My process at the minute is sampling to SP 202 (lofi beast) then into MPC.
Hey, yes it will do if you leave the effects on. What I do is use the effects to get an idea if the sample works, but then I sample them in dry so I can hav emore control over them later. Or you could sample in wet and dry. It's not like storage is a problem nowadays compared to the 10 seconds we had on SP1200s lol
Mr Crates this is very helpful. I do have one question though: if the compressors have a mix where it has wet dry for parallel compression then how come you have yours on a send? Thanks for your insights
Thanks for watching. That's a great question with a rather long winded answer. Initially it is out of habit from the days when compressors did not have wet/dry knobs, however, nowadays I quite often send multiple tracks to a compressor and blend those with the main output (mix buss). If I was to place a compressor as an insert, I would only be able to affect the tracks in that program, or on that pad, but quite often I like to send all the vocals and instruments to a compressor and blend that signal win. It's kind of related to a technique known as the rear buss technique (check out Andrew Scheps Rear Buss technique) and the main aim is to hit the compressor quite hard with the everything except the drums, driving the vocals into it harder so it activates the compressor first. You then have a parallel track with the instruments and vocal, heavily compressed with the vocals almost ducking the compressor when it comes in. Then blended subtly in the mix buss it can really make a vocal stand out against the instruments. There is a lot more to it, but that is teh basic idea behind it.
Very much appreciate your taking the time to explain!!!
where did you get those q-link rotary buttons and that jog weel?
Check the bottom of the description dude, they’re linked there. Amazon. I’m not affiliated.
Amazing video !! ✌🏾✌🏾