Please do a series on all the FX and dynamics etc. I will watch it again and again. I have been looking for something like this forever! This could be a really great way to expand content on your channel. I would readily support you in this.
Just found this channel, and it’s really the best explanation of MPCs FX and plugin suite on TH-cam. Please keep em’ coming! I love hearing a more in depth explanation on getting the most out of my MPC’s built in FX from an actual engineer! Appreciate all your hard work!
I love how you say it doesn’t matter if the compressors emulate what it says it’s supposed to, use your ears, become a black belt and know which compressor to use in each situation. It’s refreshing to have someone with your experience using standalone MPC plugin versions and get use from them instead of saying they’re all no good. Thanks for your opinion on each function such as the Old School “tape” description. I takes notes on your descriptor and descriptions. I’m going through your back catalog to get a lot of knowledge quickly! GREAT JOB BROTHER!
Thanks dude. Yes I think a lot of people get hung up on "Does it sound exactly like the original hardware" when actually it doesn' t matter. If it sounds good, then it is good right? And most of the people who say it doesn't sound like the hardware don't have the hardware there with them to compare anyway. They are just repeating what they have heard or read online. And trust me, I have worked in studios with all the hardware and the engineer still doesn't make it sound good haha. Thank you for watching.
I'm a recent graduate of audio engineering and while I don't know it all (because this audio thing is a life long learning process) I was struggling a bit to get a grasp on how some of the tools are different in the MPC vs a DAW or hardware. Your channel is the answer to a lot of those mysteries for me. I love my MPC and know that there's a TON of power in those boxes, but now that I have a better understanding of the tools I can take my tracks to a whole new level right inside the box thanks to you.
Love the attention to detail and as an engineer an producer always looking for that little extra umph to a track General mastering Compression tips for how much headroom etc.
@@TheCratesMotel I am working with an Akai MpC Live in standalaone mode and a Tascam 2488 portastudio. Your video on compressors is really useful and I am looking forward to that video on limiters as well.
@@marcopolo4350 Hey thank you for watching. I am really happy there is something useful for you there. Yes keep an eye out for the MPC limiter video, coming soon!! :)
Really cool. Thanks a lot. Could you maybe think about a video, where you would mix a boom bap beat only in Standalone in the MPC? That would be awesome.
This is one of the best Akai demos ever! It would dope if you showed how each comp can be used on the same drum-loop or w/e & to get a different sounds of it. Kinda like what you did when you compared two of them, but do it with all of them going into detail like you did here. I learned about you a from link from MPC-Forums, but I'll also shared it. Peace!
Hey thanks man, I’m flattered. I’m just paying it forward. Thank you for sharing. I might do a compressor follow up along the lines of what you’ve described. Good shout.
@@TheCratesMotel Akai's Sound Engineer's Team Should Be Proud Of You, You Did Them A Great Comparison Breakdown Service. It's Definitely A Reference Point That I'll Use.
@@babysunn2 Ah thanks man, I appreciate your kind words. The feedback I get from the community makes it all worth it. I will pop my invoice in the mail to the Akai Sound Engineer team haha
Thanks for that useful walkthrough. (btw, would love to hear your thoughts on basic use of busses fx channels and a basic mixer setup in standalone, i find it really unintuitive compared to ease in a daw like S1)
@@TheCratesMotel Great! and i mean "basic" because as many others i guess Ill be exporting the project for a final mix. But still it would be great to make use of busses for at least giving the track a first overall shape, with fx channels too and being able to keep that. Unfortunately I loose the enthusiasm trying to figure it out in standalone, could be me but i find the mixer stiff and awkward.. So Ill be on the outlook. Cheers
@@houseoflatin Yes the mixing process could definitely be more intuitive. Hopefully it is something they will update. If they really want people to take mixing in the standalone they need to rethink things a little. They have great plugins, so why not make them easier to apply on a mix properly.
Akai Force's envelope followers can be used to effectively "side-chain" any parameter. Set an envelope follower to listen to, say, a beat click, and it can work as a pumper for any parameter on any plugin. There is speculation that the Force's software, which has version number 3.something, is a prototype of things that might be coming to the MPCs as well.
great video, great knowledge! i've been ranting about the need of a sidechain eq\filter on compressors and mother ducker for quite some time. just a critique: in the last example, it worked very good except for those "F" s and "T"'s pumping a bit too much, almost clicking, but this shows a bit the limitations of mpc compressors... anyway great video, some of the best mpc related content out here on yt, thanks!
Thanks for watching dude, yes to be honest, with those actual vocals I did a lot of work with clip gain on the actual mixdown and those things were addressed, but for the MPC example, I wanted to use a raw untouched version otherwise it would have been cheating a bit. I also wanted to push it a little so people could hear the effect through the awful TH-cam audio conversion. On the OG video, it doesn't sound quite as obvious (thanks TH-cam haha).
@@TheCratesMotel meanwhile i've watched the entire series, again thank you for your great contents, we need more of this good stuff! subscribed, of course. i'd like to hear your opinion about Air Transient. i'm quite fond of it, both for some transient shaping but also to use as a no brainer limiter\clipper (without touching attack and sustain, just the level). also: what do you think of the Air Maximizer and how it compares to Air Limiter in your opinion? thanks again, mate, awesome job!
Thanks for watching. If you look through my videos I have talked a lot about the basics of mixing including gain staging, balance and panning, all of which is applicable when mixing in the MPC.
@@slice307 I will probably make a video in future demonstrating these techniques inside the MPC. Thanks again for watching and taking the time to comment.
In regards to side chain compression, ive been trying to iron out routing for the 4 send/return, and the submixes. Could have just kick pad going to submix 2 and the rest of the program to submix 1, and apply bus compression to submix 1.
Thanks for watching dude. Yes there are definitely some creative ways to get around it. Workarounds, so to speak. I will be looking at some of those in a future video.
@@hertzislandboss1561 Yea it is totally dude, you’re right. And it is kind of a compressor as well. I’ll be going into that in more detail in another video. Thanks for watching.
I love your content, and I'm excited that the TH-cam algorithm sent your video my way! I'm gonna experience and explore what you've shared. I just subscribed to your channel!🙏🏾✊🏾💚
Absolutely. To be honest, as is the case with alot of my videos, and most other peoples, I over exaggerate the effect so people can hear it through the TH-cam audio destroying rendering lol. I would never normally push the compressor that far. If however I was given a vocal with F's like that, quicker attack and a longer release would sort it out. You would want to round off the plosive and not bring up the sound of the tail of the plosive, so lengthen the release so it doesn't pop out as much. Also, this vocal was in solo and it would be hidden in context a little more. I would never normally mix in solo, again, its for the benefit of the video. However, saying all of that, in the 90s when I was making tracks entirely on an SP1200 and S950 and did not have unimted compressors or EQs, I would have literally chopped the vocal up and turned down the F, maybe filtered it. Workarounds haha.
When I use air compressor for gluing I'm getting a lot of 50hz rumble and quite a bit of white noise. what an I doing wrong? Equipment used: air compressor, spray gun, ados f55, respirator.
@@TheCratesMotel dad jokes aside, I really appreciate the mpc deep dives, you're making some very useful videos, covering the less discussed plugins in standalone. Keep up the great content mate!
Would you suggest mixing at a low dB for every channel before doing any limiting, compressing and maximizing? What's a good dB to mix at initially before finding your final dB mastering? I always mess up on that by leaving myself not enough headroom. Rookie mistake I know but it's a bad habit of mine of pushing faders.
As a mastering engineer I always tell my clients to leave me around 6db of headroom. That's a pretty good guideline. But I do get sent files with no headroom at all unfortunately, it happens. It's not so important if you are working in 32 bit floating point.
Every time I use an in box compressor it just ruins my sound. I know I'm a novice, but I feel like it just ruins ny overall mix.Feel like it makes everything sounds boxy and the drums become buried.
Hey buddy, don't despair. It's the most asked question by my students "How do I get the compressor to work properly without crushing the sound?" Compression is one of the hardest things to get right and the MPC compressors are not exactly the best out there, or at least not the most user friendly, and the meters are not at all accurate, so using your ears is even more important. However, with a bit of practice and experimentation they can get great results. Be subtle, make small adjustments. Try not to listen for an obvious effect. If you can hear the compressor working, you are probably doing too much. Unless you are really going for an obvious compressed sound, you don't really want to be doing more than a few dB of gain reduction. There are no rules, no right or wrong, but a good general method is push the compressor subtly until you can hear it beginning to work, and then back off a bit. Thanks for watching.
@@MakingMadBeats Yes they are, theoretically, but they can sometimes be a little sketchy. They’re not as responsive as the original factory knobs to be honest. But generally 99% of the time, they’re good.
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Please do a series on all the FX and dynamics etc. I will watch it again and again. I have been looking for something like this forever! This could be a really great way to expand content on your channel. I would readily support you in this.
Thank you. Yes I am gradually working my way through all the effects. Thanks for watching.
Just found this channel, and it’s really the best explanation of MPCs FX and plugin suite on TH-cam.
Please keep em’ coming!
I love hearing a more in depth explanation on getting the most out of my MPC’s built in FX from an actual engineer! Appreciate all your hard work!
Ah thanks man and thank you for watching. Definitely more to come.
I love how you say it doesn’t matter if the compressors emulate what it says it’s supposed to, use your ears, become a black belt and know which compressor to use in each situation. It’s refreshing to have someone with your experience using standalone MPC plugin versions and get use from them instead of saying they’re all no good. Thanks for your opinion on each function such as the Old School “tape” description. I takes notes on your descriptor and descriptions. I’m going through your back catalog to get a lot of knowledge quickly! GREAT JOB BROTHER!
Thanks dude. Yes I think a lot of people get hung up on "Does it sound exactly like the original hardware" when actually it doesn' t matter. If it sounds good, then it is good right? And most of the people who say it doesn't sound like the hardware don't have the hardware there with them to compare anyway. They are just repeating what they have heard or read online. And trust me, I have worked in studios with all the hardware and the engineer still doesn't make it sound good haha. Thank you for watching.
I'm a recent graduate of audio engineering and while I don't know it all (because this audio thing is a life long learning process) I was struggling a bit to get a grasp on how some of the tools are different in the MPC vs a DAW or hardware. Your channel is the answer to a lot of those mysteries for me. I love my MPC and know that there's a TON of power in those boxes, but now that I have a better understanding of the tools I can take my tracks to a whole new level right inside the box thanks to you.
That’s awesome dude. It’s the reason I do this. Always happy to help. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
Subbed. Interested more and more about completing everything in MPC.
Thanks for watching dude, I appreciate it.
I like the air channel strip
Yes. Definitely a decent plugin.
Love the attention to detail and as an engineer an producer always looking for that little extra umph to a track General mastering Compression tips for how much headroom etc.
Thanks for watching bro. I will be doing a video on limiters in the MPC, so I will be covering headroom and master compression in that video.
@@TheCratesMotel I am working with an Akai MpC Live in standalaone mode and a Tascam 2488 portastudio. Your video on compressors is really useful and I am looking forward to that video on limiters as well.
@@marcopolo4350 Hey thank you for watching. I am really happy there is something useful for you there. Yes keep an eye out for the MPC limiter video, coming soon!! :)
Excellent breakdown of the akai compressors! The AIR Compressor is my current fav.
I think overall, it is definitely the cleanest and most versatile. Thanks for watching.
Cheers man, great clip
Thank you and thank you for watching
Really cool. Thanks a lot. Could you maybe think about a video, where you would mix a boom bap beat only in Standalone in the MPC? That would be awesome.
Hey dude, thank you for watching. Yes I will definitely add that to the list. I have had quite a few requests for that type of thing.
Posted this the day I got my MPC One. Absolute legend 😁!
Awesome dude. I love my One. Enjoy your beats and thank you for watching.
Thanks again! I like to use the buss comp on live bass after the chorus effect... Works nicely.
Nice tip thank you
Thank You Kindly . 🔥 Video
You're welcome brother. Thank you for watching.
Perfect overview! Thanks!
You’re welcome. Thank you for watching.
This is one of the best Akai demos ever! It would dope if you showed how each comp can be used on the same drum-loop or w/e & to get a different sounds of it. Kinda like what you did when you compared two of them, but do it with all of them going into detail like you did here. I learned about you a from link from MPC-Forums, but I'll also shared it. Peace!
Hey thanks man, I’m flattered. I’m just paying it forward. Thank you for sharing. I might do a compressor follow up along the lines of what you’ve described. Good shout.
It was very easy to understand.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 bro thank you for your videos
It’s a pleasure my brother 🙏🏼
Again amazing video full of examples and specific usage, super clean explanations thanks a lot this is really great knowledge you share with us !
Thank you for watching brother.
This Was Very Educational In A Precision Way Towards Akai's Compression Line... (SAVED)! 👍🏽👍🏽and Thank You, Great Job.
Hey man, thank you for watching. I am really happy there was something there for you. I am just paying it forward.
@@TheCratesMotel Akai's Sound Engineer's Team Should Be Proud Of You, You Did Them A Great Comparison Breakdown Service. It's Definitely A Reference Point That I'll Use.
@@babysunn2 Ah thanks man, I appreciate your kind words. The feedback I get from the community makes it all worth it. I will pop my invoice in the mail to the Akai Sound Engineer team haha
Gems man!! Appreciate your content. I've learned so much from these vids, very informative for sure!!
You’re welcome dude. Thank you for watching 🙏🏼
Thanks for that useful walkthrough. (btw, would love to hear your thoughts on basic use of busses fx channels and a basic mixer setup in standalone, i find it really unintuitive compared to ease in a daw like S1)
Thanks for watching dude. Yes that’s a great idea. I will add it to the list.
@@TheCratesMotel Great! and i mean "basic" because as many others i guess Ill be exporting the project for a final mix. But still it would be great to make use of busses for at least giving the track a first overall shape, with fx channels too and being able to keep that. Unfortunately I loose the enthusiasm trying to figure it out in standalone, could be me but i find the mixer stiff and awkward.. So Ill be on the outlook. Cheers
@@houseoflatin Yes the mixing process could definitely be more intuitive. Hopefully it is something they will update. If they really want people to take mixing in the standalone they need to rethink things a little. They have great plugins, so why not make them easier to apply on a mix properly.
Akai Force's envelope followers can be used to effectively "side-chain" any parameter. Set an envelope follower to listen to, say, a beat click, and it can work as a pumper for any parameter on any plugin. There is speculation that the Force's software, which has version number 3.something, is a prototype of things that might be coming to the MPCs as well.
Thanks for the info dude. I’ve never used the Force.
great video, great knowledge! i've been ranting about the need of a sidechain eq\filter on compressors and mother ducker for quite some time. just a critique: in the last example, it worked very good except for those "F" s and "T"'s pumping a bit too much, almost clicking, but this shows a bit the limitations of mpc compressors... anyway great video, some of the best mpc related content out here on yt, thanks!
Thanks for watching dude, yes to be honest, with those actual vocals I did a lot of work with clip gain on the actual mixdown and those things were addressed, but for the MPC example, I wanted to use a raw untouched version otherwise it would have been cheating a bit. I also wanted to push it a little so people could hear the effect through the awful TH-cam audio conversion. On the OG video, it doesn't sound quite as obvious (thanks TH-cam haha).
@@TheCratesMotel meanwhile i've watched the entire series, again thank you for your great contents, we need more of this good stuff! subscribed, of course. i'd like to hear your opinion about Air Transient. i'm quite fond of it, both for some transient shaping but also to use as a no brainer limiter\clipper (without touching attack and sustain, just the level). also: what do you think of the Air Maximizer and how it compares to Air Limiter in your opinion? thanks again, mate, awesome job!
@@delfiobacco7156 thanks again dude. I will definitely be looking at all the aforementioned plugins in the coming weeks and making videos on them.
it's good all his tutorials but the best is always to start with the basics. Gain staging, level and panning. I hope you will talk about it
Thanks for watching. If you look through my videos I have talked a lot about the basics of mixing including gain staging, balance and panning, all of which is applicable when mixing in the MPC.
@@TheCratesMotel ok ill check thanks you
@@slice307 I will probably make a video in future demonstrating these techniques inside the MPC. Thanks again for watching and taking the time to comment.
@@TheCratesMotel thank you because it is really important
@@slice307 I agree. A lot of people forget the fundamentals and just want to do all the flash stuff with tons of plugins etc
Great video, thank you
You’re welcome dude. Thank you for watching and for your comment.
Really useful information for mixing on the MPC.
It would be great if you had some fx presets that you could share?
That’s a great idea dude. I’ll get a pack together at some point. Thanks.
In regards to side chain compression, ive been trying to iron out routing for the 4 send/return, and the submixes.
Could have just kick pad going to submix 2 and the rest of the program to submix 1, and apply bus compression to submix 1.
Thanks for watching dude. Yes there are definitely some creative ways to get around it. Workarounds, so to speak. I will be looking at some of those in a future video.
The mpc motherducker is kind of sidechaining but dont know a bout compression
@@hertzislandboss1561 Yea it is totally dude, you’re right. And it is kind of a compressor as well. I’ll be going into that in more detail in another video. Thanks for watching.
I love your content, and I'm excited that the TH-cam algorithm sent your video my way! I'm gonna experience and explore what you've shared. I just subscribed to your channel!🙏🏾✊🏾💚
Ah thank you. Hopefully YTs algos will spread the word. If you use FB, feel free to join us at facebook.com/groups/akaimpctutorials
Yeah me to my brother.
I wish Akai would work on adding Hornet plugins to the MPC, that would be fire.
Yeh Hornet make some dope plugins
What about the Mother Ducker? for sidechain compression?
As I mentioned in the video, I made a dedicated video for the Mother Ducker. Thanks for watching.
The "F" in From and Far sound a bit plosive-y, and problematic. Curious how you might attack that challenge on the MPC! :)
Absolutely. To be honest, as is the case with alot of my videos, and most other peoples, I over exaggerate the effect so people can hear it through the TH-cam audio destroying rendering lol. I would never normally push the compressor that far. If however I was given a vocal with F's like that, quicker attack and a longer release would sort it out. You would want to round off the plosive and not bring up the sound of the tail of the plosive, so lengthen the release so it doesn't pop out as much. Also, this vocal was in solo and it would be hidden in context a little more. I would never normally mix in solo, again, its for the benefit of the video. However, saying all of that, in the 90s when I was making tracks entirely on an SP1200 and S950 and did not have unimted compressors or EQs, I would have literally chopped the vocal up and turned down the F, maybe filtered it. Workarounds haha.
When I use air compressor for gluing I'm getting a lot of 50hz rumble and quite a bit of white noise. what an I doing wrong? Equipment used: air compressor, spray gun, ados f55, respirator.
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@@TheCratesMotel dad jokes aside, I really appreciate the mpc deep dives, you're making some very useful videos, covering the less discussed plugins in standalone. Keep up the great content mate!
@@mikeekto You're welcome dude. I appreciate the dad jokes lol
Would you suggest mixing at a low dB for every channel before doing any limiting, compressing and maximizing? What's a good dB to mix at initially before finding your final dB mastering? I always mess up on that by leaving myself not enough headroom. Rookie mistake I know but it's a bad habit of mine of pushing faders.
As a mastering engineer I always tell my clients to leave me around 6db of headroom. That's a pretty good guideline. But I do get sent files with no headroom at all unfortunately, it happens. It's not so important if you are working in 32 bit floating point.
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Every time I use an in box compressor it just ruins my sound. I know I'm a novice, but I feel like it just ruins ny overall mix.Feel like it makes everything sounds boxy and the drums become buried.
Hey buddy, don't despair. It's the most asked question by my students "How do I get the compressor to work properly without crushing the sound?" Compression is one of the hardest things to get right and the MPC compressors are not exactly the best out there, or at least not the most user friendly, and the meters are not at all accurate, so using your ears is even more important. However, with a bit of practice and experimentation they can get great results. Be subtle, make small adjustments. Try not to listen for an obvious effect. If you can hear the compressor working, you are probably doing too much. Unless you are really going for an obvious compressed sound, you don't really want to be doing more than a few dB of gain reduction. There are no rules, no right or wrong, but a good general method is push the compressor subtly until you can hear it beginning to work, and then back off a bit. Thanks for watching.
that Q-link button is right next to your finger...
To be honest I prefer to highlight and use the data wheel. Thanks for watching.
May I ask where you did get those different knobs and data wheel for the MPC One? Thx
Sure mate, I got them on Amazon.
Knobs:
www.amazon.com/dp/B07TXYBB7Z
Data Wheel:
www.amazon.com/dp/B08R5THKZD
@@TheCratesMotel Thank you so much! Are the replacement knobs for the q-links touch sensitive?
@@MakingMadBeats Yes they are, theoretically, but they can sometimes be a little sketchy. They’re not as responsive as the original factory knobs to be honest. But generally 99% of the time, they’re good.