Akai MPC Tutorial. How to program 90s New York Style Old School Deep House beats on the MPC.

In this video, I discuss how to program those old school NY style House beats on the MPC. A homage to Kenny Dope, Louie Vega, Todd Terry, Mood II Swing, KOT, Kerri Chandler, etc

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:15 Getting your sounds right
03:20 How I build my beats
04:50 Start with the kicks
06:12 Hi-Hat layers and swing
08:00 Clap
08:20 The Snares are important
09:28 A word on Swing
10:34 Extra Kicks
12:08 Adding some cherries on top
13:33 Add some quick chords
16:25 Outro


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Equipment I use:

Headphones:
Audeze LCD-X
Beyerdynamic 770/880/1990
Shure 535
Sennheiser HD25 MKII
Pioneer HDJ X10
Aiaiaia TMA-2 Wireless+

Reference Monitors:
Genelec 8020D

Presonus Studio One 6
RME ADI-2 DAC FS
Audient Evo 16
Audient SP8
Presonus HP4 (My Grot Box)
Presonus Faderport V2
Arturia Minilab MKII
Novation 49SL MKII
Arturia Microlab
Akai MPC One
Akai MPC Live II
Roland SP404 Mk2
Isla Instruments S2400
Omni Portable Turntable

Content Creation:
Presonus Revelator IO24
Zoom H6 Recorder
Earthworks Custom Icon Pro Microphone
Sennheiser MKE 600 Microphone
Logitech Brio 4k Cam
Apple iPhone 12
DJI Osmo Mobile 6
OC White Ultima Mic Arm
Davinci Resolve
Filmic Pro


Knobs:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TXYBB7Z

Data Wheel:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R5THKZD