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  1. Cold Truth

    any other motif rack users?

    just wondering if there are any other motif rack users here..... i didnt think the synth was too powerful, and granted i dont know a whole lot about the programming part of using them, but i started messing with it today and wow... options for days... i havent even touched the software yet...
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    not really feeling your style, but....

    i was just thinking about how there cats here whose style doesnt fit my tastes at all.... but i see the potential to do different things with what they are doing, i see that a lot of you have what it takes to go far in this world of production... besides that the respect that i develop from the...
  3. Cold Truth

    how many of you actually spit?

    i began as a rapper but now i am pretty focused on production, but i am ready to start rhyming again.... i was just wondering if there are cats in here who rhyme as well, and no, THEMUCKA, your joke freestyles dont count!!! lol... i liked that one you did, dont remember the name of it... i...
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    Rantings III......

    HERE ARE MY GRIPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE THING: for those who thank their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, after a performance/album/award/etc.... when your entire album/set is all thugged out and your lyrics do nothing to represent the God you are giving thanks to, why are you doing that? this...
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    best instrument from any song.....

    do any of you have a particular insrument from a song that stands out and makes the song memorable? i was listening to the oft-sampled "love and happiness" by al green....... and that organ has got to be the ILLEST sound i have ever heard in a song..... if you dont know what the word "soulful"...
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    what exactly is an arpeggiator good for???

    i see all these features on various modules and keyboards, including my own, most of which i have never touched.... i have had , in the last year, a roland xp 80, triton le, xp 80, and now the motif rack.... they all have arpgiators that are supposed to be great, but what are they good for...
  7. Cold Truth

    Vinage Pro Keys as Controll Keyboard?

    does any one here own this? how is it as a controll keyboard? the reason i ask is because i really covet the module that this came from, but i also need a better controll keyboard (i got this cheap casio to controll my Motif Rack for a $100, and, boy did i get what i paid for!) and so i figure...
  8. Cold Truth

    Producers not getting respect.............

    alright man..... i was at church last nite and the youth pastor came up and was like "hey when are you going to do that turntable-mixing thing that you do for the youth?" and i said.. that i dont "mix", i dont even HAVE turnatbles and that i am a producer. i make beats...... and then oter...
  9. Cold Truth

    Kobe Bryant and the Lakers....

    yeah, this isnt about muzik, at all....... what do you guys think of this whole sexual assault thing with Kobe Bryant? thats crazy,,,, i was wondering how many of you are basketball fans as well..... also... seing as how the Great Lakers just signed The Glove and The Mailman, and...
  10. Cold Truth

    mpc presets?????????

    i just read a review on a website and they kept talking about the presets on the mpc 2000 ( not the xl) i have this............. maybe i am mistaken, but i dont think that there are any preset sounds on it........ do any of you know of this?
  11. Cold Truth

    HELP, getting rid of my mpc................

    well, its like this: its going to cost me 250 for the 8 output expansion, plus 100 or so for a cd-r drive, and thats 350 dollars right there. plus i still need a mixer, thats like 2-300, and a cd burner is going to run me another 140 or so............ and all of this is shoping on the lower end...
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    the quality of this site...................

    i have been on one of the other other sites ( i have only found one) and saw them discussing our "heardat" and just kind of talking down aboutus...saying that this site is an ok little site, but dosnt really have all the "extras" of the other one..... questioning why we would have the "heardat"...
  13. Cold Truth

    how far can you go and still be hip hop?

    just wondering, since the last few of my tracks have been more "movie" like, sounding more like a fim score than a hip hop beat, and the last one utilized full on distortion guitars and a very rock-type break at the end....... so, how far can you go and still be considered hip hop? what do you...
  14. Cold Truth

    what about BEING sampled?

    well, i was just in the "hiring musicicans to replay sequences" forum, and i guess the question was referring to replaying a sample.... i listened to the tracks on that "prince of thieves" section of soundclick, and heard the originals and was disapointed by the blatant jacking of most of them...
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    New Blackstar On Its Way!!!!!!!!!

    YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! looks like they are gonna release this in the next year or so. i dont have rock solid info but i just heard a performance they did on the Dave Chapell Show on realplayer (look up talib kweli and go to see all, then look for blackstar freestyle. its...
  16. Cold Truth

    DIFFERENT hardware/software question

    ok, ok, i know the whole debate is rediculous, but thats not my purpose here. i would like to know FROM THOSE WHO WORK WITH BOTH. how do the sounds we get from software compare to the keyboards and racks? i have a motif racl that i am more that happy with..... i tend to use mostly organic...
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    EL-P on MTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i just saw El P on Mtv on a pretty lengthy interview and they even played the video for "Stepfather Factory"... .thats is CRAZY..................just thought i would give some props to a seriously overlooked artist who finally got a moment of recognition by a mainstream media outlet. thats all...
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    "Street Cred"

    here is a term that gets a ton of use these days... so, what exactly defines this and what does it take to get it, according to that definition? is it a positive thing and does it produce positive or negative results within hip hop and its surrounding elements? (basketball being among them.)...
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    Do You Suffer For This?

    man, i am stupid!!!!! i got financial problems for days right now because i bought my motif rack. it was part bad timing, part unforseeable events, and part irresponsibility- BUT I HAVE MY MOTIF RACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and boy is it woth the short tterm...
  20. Cold Truth

    The Worst Right Now??

    ok, we always ask the "whose the best....." or "hated" , etc. but who are the worst artists out? whats the worst you have heard the last few years, wether, producer, mc, your friend, WHOEVER? i'm not just talkin "timbaland is wack, he jacked this or that, kanye west just samples this, etc.."...
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