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Check out this baby: The AKAI Mpc 5000 drum machine. Retails for $2,000 and loaded with features. Here it’s being showed at some sort of music expo in Sydney Australia, featuring a confused British DJ Carl Cox.. trying to not get too lost with the salesman.

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From video: I attempted to transcribe the conversation at the beginning,.. but then I realized it’s pointless. What the heck is he talking about? Whatever man, you can be an expert or whatever but why don’t you just shows us & let us hear some things done with the machine, instead of name dropping cables and frequencies and shit no one besides you.. know. I kid.

So you can actually go through each one of the individual sounds
Then you can assign on to individual outputs. Effects processors, etc.

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If you look at this mode button here you actually got different screens to go into. Mode, mixer mode, program. The you can see on each one of your fix processors you can actually have two effects on each one. So at the moment they have 40 effects to choose from. Analog type delay, if I select it in here then acts into real time. The other thing with the que efects is that you can actually switch them on and off. ..

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Blah blah blah… you can run a master compressor and a master cue. So you get a couple of options on the main outs. ..

Carl Cox: This has come a looong way! (Translation: I have no idea WTF  you are talking about, just nodding and agreeing.. & hoping you’d shut the Fudge up and start playing some music )

If you go back to the main program you can actually have up to four different layers. …  if you’ve done a lot of things in chop chop it automatically assigns it….      …Teh ones that you…

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Start making your own beats, whether you decide to get a physical drum machine or beat machine software, just start taking action and getting creative. You can always upgrade your equipment and/or music software later on.

Tags: akai mpc 5000, beat machine, carl cox, drum machine

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