Shinola take my money
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Made with Analog Heat and Digitakt II flipping a vinyl sample
An international collaboration between me & Russia’s Zmickey Langelo 
Also contains the hardest Digitakt bars of all time.
melting wax feat. ORANGE DRINK
LYRICS:
It’s Yung Grandpa
What did you think
Zmickey Langelo all up in your Orange Drink
When I enter the building it’s no cap
I’m on the mic and my boy on the Digitakt
All the other MCs are just talkin’
I roll up to the club and you know I’m pop lockin’
Headbanging - get a concussion
The beat’s not slow; It’s just Russian (Rushing)
I got my cardigan
I got slacks
Encyclopedia
With big facts
When we collab
It’s hot tracks
But for the record
We’re melting wax
We gonna do this?
Let’s do this!
Turn it up
Turn it up!
Turn it up full tilt and burn the beat
We don’t need no water just the Analog Heat
Hit the trig - boost the mids
Press record and upload the vid
KICK
SNARE
TOM
CLAP
COWBELL
CLOSED HAT
OPEN HAT
CYMBAL
Grandpa’s like that
You don’t need stereo to hear that I’m nice
Import the sample - and hit slice
I’m not on that tradition
Going online and just wishing
Glorifying my vices
And praying for upgraded devices
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Live Hiero performance on KEXP
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Love that hieroglyphics at the helm 
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Making a comeback and posting in here for the first time in forever. Life got busy, but I’m trying to get back into actually posting beats. Album on the way for those interested. 
Hope you all have doing well!
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Wow that beat goes hard! I love the switch and the drum! 
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Preciate it!
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Y’all ever think that modern pop acts put breaks in their songs and think about people in the future sampling them?
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My copy of Surprise Chef’s new album came in the mail today. Hip hop adjacent. This one feels like a masterpiece to me. Big Crown rarely disappoints.
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Gonna double post this from the SP404MKII thread to celebrate that I actually recorded something for the first time in forever.
A little mini beat tape for the SP-Forums beat battle hosted by @Sleepynumb
Did the beats mainly on the SP404MKII, but pretty much everything was processed by the SP303 at various stages. My first beats in forever, so I was super rusty.
Apologies for the muddiness of the first track. I really like the arrangement and tried multiple times to get a better balance/mix, but sometimes the SPs just don’t want to make it easy.
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Great old school 90s flow. Produced by Budamunk from Jazzy Sport.
VHS Hip Hop
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Thought I’d post here among there hip-hop folk rather than a new topic.
Thinking of an audio interface to bring tracks in from MPC 2500 to Ableton.
Ideally 10 analog inputs so I can output 8 individual tracks and then 2 more via stereo, but I don’t see many of those without getting into 16/expensive territory so 8 inputs would do.
I know I can bounce tracks individually to Ableton and arrange there, but I prefer arranging an entire tune on the MPC and then record a take for mixing & fx in ableton.
Been looking at Motu Ultralite, Scarlett 18’s, Audient ID48, Ferrofish pulse 8. Anyone got any recommends or others to consider? And with the Audient & Ferrofish, do they actually output over USB into DAW, I can’t seem to figure that out.
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Have you looked at the behringer U-Phoria UMC1820? It’s got more than enough ins and outs for what you want to do, pretty reasonably priced as well… general consensus seems to be that it punches well above it weight performance wise…
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Thanks that looks like a good shout! Nice to have physical knobs/buttons for each channel too.
[edit] also thinking more, does the s/pdif output give me another stereo, so 8 individual (analog) & 1 stereo (digital) can run simultaneously into the u-phoria?
That I don’t know mate, I don’t have a massive amount of experience with outboard gear and mixers so hopefully someone will chime in, there’s quite a few threads out there discussing them though so it might be worth a look in those… 
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No worries I’ll have a nose around.
Akai manual says s/pdif outputs same signal as stereo outs, so I’m hopeful 
What about the Tascam Model 12 or even the Zoom L-6?
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I’ve never tested recording everything at once (although I don’t see why it would be an issue) but I use a Traktor Audio 10 which is often pretty cheap due to it being pretty old now. It’s a DVS interface so the connections are all phono but I use it to output Ableton sessions to an external mixer and it’s perfect. As I said, YMMV in terms of your requirements though
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@BlankFlag I like the idea of Model 12 but desk space is a big issue, I’m looking for something slim like 1u rack space, or a desktop unit that can sit under an iMac
@PeteSasqwax I might take a look at that
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More digging…
I think this works so long as the interface/software can handle 44.1khz/16bit audio, this is also needed by the 2500 for any incoming audio via SPIDF. The Motu Ultralite has support for 44.1-192khz so looks good, UMC1820 lists 44.1khz support too.
So I think I could have 8 analog + digital stereo out, plus digital stereo in for recording anything coming out of the PC, meaning MPC analog in can be used for something else (SP404 +/- turntable, mic or guitar).
Posting in case question comes up in future, and I will report on testing when done!
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