Anyone here do any hip hop production?

[MegaMustaine]

I know it's not very...erm...metal, but hey its music production. I really like layer and ccomposing hip hop beats and tweaking sounds and such. I'm looking to get into it, however it seems I need some kind of midi controller and a sample pad, which is why I come here.

If anyone is into this kind of production, any recommendations on the midi controller and sample pad? Am I going to be able to compose drawn out piano driven beats with just a midi controller? Thanks guys.

-MM

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

A buddy of mine uses the korg nano pads for all his hip hop shit...seems to work good for him

 

[Lasse Lammert]

check "Leif$style" in my player

www.lasselammert.com

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

Lasse what'd you use for that?

 

[mjlaudio]

m audio controllers are da best for da hip hop yo.......also get the kaossilator it is great for that.....garage band, and fruity loops are where I see most people programming now....the older established guys still use there mpc's though.

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

the kaossilator is alot of fun to mess around with

 

[beyond dead]

A buddy of mine uses the korg nano pads for all his hip hop shit...seems to work good for him

a buddy of mine that I used to play in bands with has recently decided to try to be the next dr. dre. he loves the nano control (im getting one myself) and a shitty casio keyboard he connects to his audio interface via midi

really, you dont NEED a controller as much as a keyboard, but getting a good controller with pads is a good idea to bring actual real performance and feel into your productions.

He is loving Logic 9 for all his production needs

so keyboard, and pads and a DAW controller, something like the maudio axiom 49 would do all those jobs well.

 

[The Unavoidable]

I've done a couple of beats/random shit which turned out pretty good. I'd love to get into it more but I never get around to it.

 

[MegaMustaine]

Yeah how exactly do the midi keyboards connect to the PC? Would I have to buy some sort of interface too? I recently bought reason propellerhead to start my hip hop production quest, but soon realized that about every tutorial, a controller is necessary.

 

[Sharptooth]

Just go for a USB midi controller, m audio 49 keyrig does me the job.

 

[drew_drummer]

I do drum and bass, and I have a screwy bent jazzy assmixxy project called Mayonnaise Ballbag.

 

[beyond dead]

most production keyboards such as the keyrig 49(which I own, it works amazing, I plugged it into my mac, and logic instantly recognized it) connect via usb. if

you are mixing and tracking any genre, you should be using proper studio monitors, which require some sort of firewire or usb audio interface. Get an interface, an maudio axiom pro and call it a day. If the axiom pro is out of your budget, get a korg nano control, nano keys and nano pads.

 

[MegaMustaine]

I'm currently in a dorm...so monitors and whatnot is kind of out of the question. Just working out of my senheiser headphones. Looks like the M-Audio Keyrig should do the job. Still curious how the programming of complex midi piano arrangements in reason works though.

 

[beyond dead]

there should be a piano roll editor

 

[MegaMustaine]

There is one but in general the piano roll editors I've used I find to be clunky. I actually prefer to do piano stuff in something like guitar pro where I can assign note lengths via quarter or half notes. maybe theres something i haven't figured out in reason though i still have no clue what i'm doing

 

[ApolloSpeed]

i've been toying with the idea of picking up that behringer ucontrol keyboard too

 

[SocialNumb]

Don't need no dam pads. Of course preference has a lot to do with it, you don't NEED it. Any keyboard controller will do. Down in the guest house (hip hop studio) we have a protool rig, (currently changing that to Logic) 2 mics, booth and a Korg Triton that we use (rather they) for midi. (internal sounds are old) (don't need to mention everything do I?) Da bomb tracks comin out dis peece yo! How's my fake ghetto?

Reason is so ghey that you can learn it in 10 mins. (took me 5 and decided it sucked for me) Have a look here http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwboyinabandcom <--- that's all I needed, the rest came easy.

 

[MegaMustaine]

Why do you think Reason is ghey Social? Seems pretty sweet to me, cooler than anything else I've looked at.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

I can't really remeber tbh.....whatever I can get my hands on

 

[KeithRT99]

I love reason, it's so easy to make music in. Plus you can always rewire it into pro tools.