My 90s Sample CDs Will Go On
By roboctopus on April 5, 2026 9:36 pm
Uhhh. This is an experiment. I got one of those MPC Samples last week. Kind of an impulse purchase. It came out, I watched a video, and ordered it on the spot lol. I have been wanting a portable sampler and always wanted to try MPC, so yeah. It's a super fun device, and it's very easy to use, so I'm pretty pleased with it. I am finding I can't do some things I want to do easily (like glitchy abrupt stop/starts) but I think that's more of an MPC workflow thing and not this device. Stuff I could do easily on Octatrack has me scratching my head with this thing a bit haha.
Anyway, I loaded it with a bunch of the cheesiest most 90s sounding sample CDs I could find and paired it with LSDJ for this week. this is a live take, just the game boy manually synced to the MPC and running straight through its input. (manual sync=I pressed play at the same time lol). The MPC has a compressor and a "pumper" effect for sorta sidechaining so the LSDJ is running through those. Kinda cool.
I've never really tried a track like this--it's sort of a chillout/vibey track I guess? I honestly can't tell if I think this is a demo, or if it does exactly what I want it to do and is finished. Lol.
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