July 2008
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June 2008
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“JJ - JJ (Hayashi) did work for us. He was the software engineer on the MPC1000 and MPC2500. He was the one that introduced all the bugs that those machines originally shipped with. He even broke the MTC on the MPC2500 before he left us so that he could then fix it and then charge customers himself. He stole our code, and charged customers for OS fixes that we would have had him do and released for free. We chose not to take legal action even though we had every right to because it would hurt the customers. He will not be working for us again. We are in process of fixing the existing bugs as well as adding the Chopshop 2.0 feature from the MPC5000.”
—Akai MPC Forums - Good News! I think. : MPC500
The story behind JJ
The story behind JJ
May 2008
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“Why do we want to chop a break? Well, normally it’s because we wish to use the drum sounds within the break and generally keep the same atmosphere and production associated with the break, but we need the break to either ‘fit’ into an existing sequence or we would like to change the groove or note order of the break. We may also wish to perform special tricks to the break or we may simply wish to extract a particular drum sound from the break to use in one of our own beats.”
—MPC 500 Tutorial - Chopping Breakbeats on the Akai MPC500
Yes Sir!
New tumblr (damn, You gotta love ‘em!) about the culture/art/science/phenomenon of beatmaking.
Links, videos, pictures (yes - a lot of gear porn!), quotes and all the stuff that relates to sampling, crate diggin, gear and music :)
Stay tuned.
Yes… I might write a glossary :)
