MPC One Synthwave Jam!

MPC One Synthwave Jam!

Today I decided to warm up my studio with a synthwave(ish) jam on the MPC One! To keep it super accessible, I decided to use stock sounds and plugin presets as well. I have to admit, this is the first time I've used the MPC One in a LONG time without having anything go wrong, and the whole experience was actually pretty fun! Enjoy the video :)

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[wiggesobk]

That was awesome! Makes me want to grab my MPC One right now.

[amconsole]

This one jam demonstrates how the MPC One works better than a lot of in depth reviews. One sequence, 16 bars long, 4 tracks: Drums, Bass, Chords, Bells. A bit of mixing, tweaking the chord length on a piano roll. Fast and clean. Good job demoing what the MPC can do as a groovebox, but without going into sample chops and effects and external hardware synths, which the MPC does really well, too. It's a beast. I wonder, though, prior to recording the last 10min of the session, the actual jam, how long was the set up process - picking out the drum kit, synth presets, trying out what You were going to play and such.

[avace]

I love that kit. Just made a Synthwave song myself with that kit, the Jura for bass, Hype for bells and Arturia Jupiter 8V for a pad. This is in the software of course

[ElectronicChateau]

Hey mate, been binge watching your content. Really helpful for someone getting into making electronic music. Thank you 👍

[christhedemocrat]

His best beat by far. I'm thinking about getting One to add to my collection.

[I.O.M.]

Man you had me hooked and was Justin waiting for the 80s vox to kick in.

[GatisKaulinsh]

Thanks I really appriciate this as a lession how to - to approximately start my own synthwave track! :)

[jakef]

Very creative flow, man. I've mainly been watching your pocket operator videos but this one was also nice - keep up the good work!

[york]

Would fit in any number of scenes in Fletch

[johncarter]

Yeah I can picture this tune to an 80s style film sequence. It’s either a private detective car journey scene, or a go getting female lawyer scene. Gathering evidence montage. She takes no shit. She has shoulder pads.

[aliasghar]

is there a mixer section to fade tracks in and out?

[LynxPL]

I'm a guitar player who mostly jams/loops in Ableton, but I'm looking into a standalone hardware solution. I watched quite a few MPC videos that I really struggled to understand, but this one makes it super easy to get the gist of the jamming workflow.

Now, my only question is, can you seamlessly add a guitar to this jam? As in, plug in the guitar direct to the input (using either a pedalboard or some amp sim plugins on the MPC) set up an audio track, and record a sequence of predefined length (16-bars in this case) with MPC starting the recording at the beginning and stopping it at the end of the beat?

If so, how many audio tracks can it realistically handle?

I know I could probably use a looper with midi sync along with MPC, but I very much enjoy the workflow of recording audio loops of predefined length in Ableton, and I wonder if MPC can mimic that.

[christhedemocrat]

Update: I bought One from the Mason Pawn Shop for $350
It's all you need as far as music equipment goes.
I'm not a big fan of the EPiano sounds though
Probably because I own two Rhodes, one Wurlitzer and two Maestro 612P Electric Mechanical Pianos.
But this little box does everything.
I be making beats for days

[Adam-yecv]

And A Nice Beat I could easily Sing something to This

[AmbiguousMotion]

The bass don’t suit at all, it’s too subby, the mix is not breathing.