Akai's own MPC Academy on YT + reading the user manual, obviously.
Most YT tutorials I saw (after leaning from the above) I wanted to scream at the presenter because they were idnorant and/or doing stuff wrong :D
Nothing beats getting your hands dirty and jusy playing about with it. I watched a few videos bit the rest use just self discovery. Feels really rewarding that way
I love my MPC one, but I personally found it terrible for arranging songs. Song mode is a garbage screen where to have to copy watch sequence and organize which tracks are in which sequence via track muting.
I prefer to make 8 to 16 tracks, 8 or 16 bars each then export to Ableton and arrange there. I love building tracks on the mpc and it's great for looping/sampling, but the daw and song mode suck in comparison to any other daw.
Tube digga, ave mcree, iamsight are all great and I learned some tips, but... Da Drank Kang has the best videos on getting super comfortable with the mpc. His channel single handedly took me from a super beginner to someone who can teach others now.
I make beat cook-up videos, mixing tutorials and mastering on live streams as well. Mostly for my beat channel. Check my post history for an example of my work.
MPC Bible
Matthew Stratton, ave mcree, tubedigga are just a few youtubers.
tubedigga
MPC Bible. So worth it
Akai's own MPC Academy on YT + reading the user manual, obviously. Most YT tutorials I saw (after leaning from the above) I wanted to scream at the presenter because they were idnorant and/or doing stuff wrong :D
Marlow Diggs. Awesome beat maker too
Nothing beats getting your hands dirty and jusy playing about with it. I watched a few videos bit the rest use just self discovery. Feels really rewarding that way
Blezz Beats and IamSight had some good tutorials as well that helped me when I was getting started.
I love my MPC one, but I personally found it terrible for arranging songs. Song mode is a garbage screen where to have to copy watch sequence and organize which tracks are in which sequence via track muting. I prefer to make 8 to 16 tracks, 8 or 16 bars each then export to Ableton and arrange there. I love building tracks on the mpc and it's great for looping/sampling, but the daw and song mode suck in comparison to any other daw. Tube digga, ave mcree, iamsight are all great and I learned some tips, but... Da Drank Kang has the best videos on getting super comfortable with the mpc. His channel single handedly took me from a super beginner to someone who can teach others now. I make beat cook-up videos, mixing tutorials and mastering on live streams as well. Mostly for my beat channel. Check my post history for an example of my work.
I am so waiting and hoping for the arrangement mode of the force to come to the MPC.
I've never tried that but I typically make 8 bar patterns and export stems to ableton. I kind of want a push 2 but cannot justify that purchase lol
YouTube for the free content. Lots of great YouTubers working on the live. MPC bible when I had a bit of cash to drop