r/mpcusers • u/Brother_Margaret • 11h ago

MPC X / X SE Non Hip-Hop MPC Usage

This is the kind of stuff I make with my MPC. I’ve owned, I think, 5 iterations of the MPC; the workflow has always been very, very intuitive to me.

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u/FretlessMoog23 11h ago

I’m mainly a jazz musician and I have a MPC Key37 & SP404 mkll and I don’t make hip hop. I make lo-fi, electronic, synthwave and ambient music.

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u/Brother_Margaret 10h ago

Love it! I’ve been thinking about the Key37, seems like it was a well built piece of gear

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u/samwaytla 8h ago

Dope. I'm always happy to see more diverse output than boombap or trap.

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u/wrenched85 11h ago

What’s your guitar chain into the MPC? Lovely tune.

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u/Brother_Margaret 10h ago

I’ve got a couple pedals (eq, compression, fuzz, reverb, delay), going into a rack mount milkman amp, into a focusrite claret 8 preamp, and then into the MPC. I have a couple pedal chains that I send into one of those Franklin Audio channel switchers and then use those chains to sample straight onto pads on the MPC.

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u/Financial-Koala6995 6h ago

That pedal-chain setup makes me want to put clean and fuzzed versions of the same chord on adjacent pads and alternate them.

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u/AnActualWizardIRL 4h ago

They also play nicely with things like fractals, and helixes, and the cheap but increasingly excellent chinese knockoffs too. I've also been keeping an eventide E9 in a loop for inserts cos of the awesome verbs and micropitch stuff.

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u/AnActualWizardIRL 4h ago

For what its worth, Roger Linn who invented the damn things was a Jazz guy. While Akai does focus on the hiphop crowd, the MPC is the sacred totem of hiphop production anointed by the patron saint j dilla (rest his soul) himself, after all, theres absolutely nothing stopping you from using it for other genres. I play guitar in a psych-pop/rock band (am even from perth) and use mine extensively for it.