Hardware Drum Box or VSTi Sampler, whats your opinions.

[Basic Pitch]

Hi all,

Well just curious on your opinions, in regards to programing drums in our current age of technology, do you think using a device like an MPC has any advantage over using a software base drum app like Battery, DR-008?

Reason I ask was that some one had made a post on the cubase forums asking for a good drum app, one person chimed in saying there is a reason the pro's still use hardware like the MPC, so it got me thinking.

I have an MPC-2000 and an SP1200 sitting here collecting dust these days, was thinking of selling one of the two off maybe since for a while now I have used battery exlusivly in my music since its just so much easier having hundreds of samples to choose from on the hard drive rather than a zip drive or floppy disk.

SO whats your opinions on the choices, do you or should I say would you prefer to work with a hardware based samples or do you think the benefits of a VSTi far outweigh any positivs of the hardware counterparts?

Cheers!

[garyb]

mpcs have a vibe but, so what! use what you like. there are many pros who don't use an mpc....

the mpc interface is pretty cool though. you might want to at least use the pads for triggers. the mpc is also portable...

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[valis]

I do like the sample-accuracy that having software sample-playback gives (especially when layering drum hits) but you can achieve similar things by judicious use of keygroups or similar.

MPC has no filtering but the 'sound' of the Akai dac's has long been touted as being really 'punchy' and a big part of hiphop culture. The 'grooves' that MPC devices have for groove quantizing are avialable for use in Logic and SX etc. if you know how to come by them, but the same 'punch' may be harder to come by especially if mixing entirely digitally.

Perhaps you should try using the MPC (since you have it) for a few things and see how you feel about it?