Yes they are 2 inches thick and that's just because the wood is that thick the actual "driver" is thinner

No one told me going completely DAW free gives you serious GAS gear acquisition syndrome

Getting an MPC was simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to me. I just keep buying s*** lol

I’m about to cop the Arturia Astrolab 37 to use along side my MPC Sample

And then I wanna upgrade my MPC Key Gen 1 to either a Gen 2 or get an MPC Live 3

I’ve been working on a DAW for a min but I’ll probably be getting some gear in the near future, probably an FLkey2 and MPC Sampler for production and a DJ controller for performances

surprised u didnt figure this out just by watching youtubers who are dawless / use a bunch of gear

like just look at them lol

lol I saw it, but didn’t think i would become that as well. I thought I had discipline

I thought “I just need an MPC Key, it has all the sounds I’ll ever need, plus I can make keygroups, I’m good”

Now it’s like, damn I NEED this synth. I NEED the effects from a sp404, etc

It never ends

yeah it's interesting cause when u go dawless u kinda end up needing a piece of hardware to achieve something specific / or multiple things

like just look at pedals too lol

if u want drums u need a drum machine... distortion or overdrive u get a pedal... specific kind of reverb get a pedal.. FM synths,,, various other machines.

i try my best to stick to in the box for everything. i play and guitar and dont even own pedals

but also u can still fall under the same syndrome on a daw. pirating/buying plugins and stuff.

just stick 2 a few pieces of gear and master it so it becomes ur sound

Lol dont touch eurorack ever

Maybe you could go half & half with a DAW, start in the MPC & finish in the DAW
Instead of just filling your space with gear

Alternatively if you really like the MPC workflow & were planning to get an AstroLab, jump straight to the MPC Key 37 G2 soon & buy some Akai Plugins for black friday
The Gen 2 is a big jump from the Gen 1, its processor has basically jumped from an iPhone 5S tier to an iPhone XS tier
Everything opens basically instantly, no loading

we back

tfw i wanted to record my hardware synths but soon realized my current audio interface doesnt support 2 instrument cables and i sold my old focusrite that i used to use... honestly wouldnt have had this issue if amazon sent me the correct audient i ordered but they gave me a full refund and i got to keep whatever i got... smh

prob gonna order the correct one again and sell the audient id4..

Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. May sell my gen 1 key and buy the gen 2. The load times on the Gen 1 have been half of what’s turning me off from even trying to use it lately.

But I wound up buying the Astrolab anyway

It’s actually kind of nice having the MPC Key as the brain and the Astrolab as a side piece for all the sounds.

At first I was thinking have two keyboards would be a little silly for my space/set up (I’m just a hobbyist at this point anyway), but I made it work and it’s actually a pretty fun combo

Man I’m having a hard time finishing anything and it’s getting real overwhelming

I have a ton of stuff I made that is complete in the sense that it doesn’t need anything else, but I just can’t get past the mixing / arranging stage

I feel like my mixes sound good, but trying to get that loudness out of it via “mastering” (using that lightly) is just a disaster

I’m about to just say f*** the loudness war and call it done when the mix sounds good, but it feels bad having a quieter sound when everything else just has that nice “loudness” to it

I used to not have this problem like 10 years ago, but I’ve been out the game for too long and I fell so far behind in mastering/loudness techniques

are u using busses n stuff of that nature.

i like grouping similar elements together and throwing a limiter on that, then route them to another limiter, and ofc the master has its own limiter. that usually comes last though. i try to get a good mix before throwing limiters on my s***

Yeah I’ve been using a drum bus and adding a limiter to that to try and control the kick and things like that, but the loudness I get from the master limiting seems a little too crushed or harsh. I feel like I may be over doing it somewhere. Or maybe my kick/snare is still too loud and it’s making it hard to glue the track together with the limiting, not sure lol

Just finished another project but more than likely gonna add onto the tracks and do a end of year release or next year

Would love to get some rap vocals on there but to be fair I’m very picky about the way it should sound lol

Might even throw a track or two up here too what do y’all think

theres a Massive XL now ijbol

massive in 2026

Said I would do my best not to buy new gear until I've sold some stuff but when this drops I might have to make an exception
$200 bucks too

Whats the hype with these? Anything workflow wise or just some sample rate shenanigans that can be replicated in daw?

It's moreso just about trying out that workflow tbf, seeing how the early 90s producers worked. Although obviously it won't be the same since I doubt they'd give a modern version a miniscule amount of memory/sample time

Original SP12/1200 samplers are always a bit trickier to get ahold of at reasonable prices (they usually go for 5000 bucks++++)
The Isla 2400 is inspired by it so that's an option tbf

To anyone hasn't bought much gear I'd definitely advise them to avoid buying much gear tbh, although I'd also have a great bang for buck recommendations list to give them based upon my years of knowledge & past gear acquisition mistakes and wins

Someone has stolen my song.
They have literally taken my released song, given it a new name, slapped a stupid AI “art work” as the album cover, and released my song under their own name.

What the f***!
Does anyone have any experience with this and have some tips about how I get it pulled from streaming services?

See thats why i never release anything

4bl3t0n Live 13 is on the horizon