I posted a new deep liquid type trip hop track to YouTube yesterday. It could defiantly do with more development but I just wanted to get it out and move on.
Enjoy.
New Akai MPC 2500 and a few live jam videos
I picked up a second hand Akai MPC 2500 a few ago and after tricking it out with the full 128mb of ram, a 40gb hard drive and jjosxl I’ve been having great fun breaking my musical shackles from the computer.
Ok, so the MPC is a computer but the hands on tactile feel make the whole experience much different and I’ve found the learning curve minimal given I have a strong background in music technology although I’m sure I still have much to learn as jjosxl seems to be quite deep.
Here are a few tracks I’ve uploaded to Youtube from the last week or two staring the Akai MPC 2500, Korg MS-20 Mini, Korg Volca Keys, Korg Electribe EMX1, Oberheim Matrix 1000, EMU E5000 Ultra, Roland TR-707 and a bit of delay and reverb.
Enjoy and please comment if you enjoyed them.
Korg SQ-1 is here!
Oh yeah baby. 🙂
I’ll be sure to post my thoughts and comments on this device once I’ve had a chance to play with it.
There is a USB port on the back which might be able to provide power but interestingly the unit takes 2 AA batteries, 3v.
MIDI operates at 5v and the CV on the MS-20 I believe is 8v so Korg are obviously doing something devious here to save power. Possibly using some sort of ‘joule theif’. Interesting.
Check back for updates to this post with more information as it becomes known.
MIDI synced CV / LFO for MS-20 Mini with the Electro Harmonix 8 Step
I made a brief video on some of the integration between the Electro Harmonix 8 step and the Korg Ms-20 Mini.
The 8 step is an 8 step CV sequencer which can be synced and controlled via MIDI.
Here I take a look at replacing the MS-20 Mini internal LFO with a MIDI synced ‘lfo’ from the Electro Harmonix to control the low pass filter and frequency modulation.