so my brother is getting into producing

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Posted by Vivid Boy on Nov-12-2004 04:40:

so my brother is getting into producing

hip hop producing that is. i was thinking abt buying him some equipment this year. any ideas???? i was thinking abt some equip for sampling or beatmaking. can someone help out??? give me some ideas on quip. i have no clue abt anything in producing cept for song formulas.

Posted by alanzo on Nov-12-2004 04:50:

I hear da Jp8000 is real pop-ulair in da ghetto... such home-Gs as Dr. Dre use dem.. dey is fly ma nigga...

*I am as white as a trout belly*

Posted by DJ-Igloo on Nov-12-2004 04:51:

haha alanzo

Posted by echosystm on Nov-12-2004 05:53:

How much money were you thinking? This stuff isnt all that cheap :P

Just buy him flstudio

Posted by Tranc3 on Nov-12-2004 06:56:

You'd probably be better off asking on futureproducers.com, as they're more focused on hip-hop production. Make sure you include a price range as well, or they'll just recommend the most expensive stuff (as would anyone else).

Posted by mize on Nov-12-2004 12:08:

if your brother wont to be dope, and do like all the big hiphop proddish
you shuld give him a akai MPC 2000xl or MPC 4000..

Posted by Vivid Boy on Nov-12-2004 15:28:

well he doesnt want to be a dope producer. its just a hobby of his. he loves beats as do i. but yeah ill check out ur suggestions. i was thinking something in 200 dollar range if there is anything in a 2 hundred dollar range

Posted by Vivid Boy on Nov-12-2004 15:55:

sorry guys. one last question.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--FOSVF80EX

hows this for a sampler?

and what exactly does it do?

can he make beats with this? make sampoles? lopp samples?

Posted by kopi_luwak on Nov-12-2004 16:33:

Dood FL4 for sure,really easy to use and great for to do hip hop,u just will need to get some samples and that's it he will be all a gangsta :P.
Kopi =o.

Posted by djyouth on Nov-12-2004 17:29:

FL Studio 4.. And buy him some kind of HipHop sample pack..

Posted by Vivid Boy on Nov-12-2004 18:41:

quote:
Originally posted by djyouth
FL Studio 4.. And buy him some kind of HipHop sample pack..

hes got fl studio and reason and pretty muich every piece of software there is. i want to buy him equipment

Posted by Derivative on Nov-13-2004 00:41:

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hes got fl studio and reason and pretty muich every piece of software there is. i want to buy him equipment

in which case i recommend he goes out and actually, you know? purchases the software he illegally obtained on the internet? if he has every piece of software there is hes sorted for making music and if he cant do it he should seriously consider just giving up now. chances are hes already pirated kontakt or something so why the hell would he need a hardware sampler?

Posted by moth on Nov-13-2004 01:59:

Why buy him some hardware that his software can already do?
Buying just a sampler sounds pointless to me.

Maybe buy him some books on how to use 'his' software. The only advantage he will have if he gets a hardware synth is it will sound better than most software. But then he has to learn how to use the damn thing, and also how to effectively make productions with the software.

So i'd say get him a synth, if anything. Or a wack of sample CDs.

Posted by Vivid Boy on Nov-13-2004 04:48:

well like i said i know niothing abt producing. he didnt tell me he wanted equip i just thought it would be cool to buy him some. maybe ill buy him a better sound system or something.

well he uses acid pro alot and a few other software programs...he hasnt started using reason yet but maybe ill buy him a book or something abt it. thnx for the ideas guys.

Posted by nzo on Nov-13-2004 16:06:

Soundcard / Monitors would be a good purchase.

Posted by DjSimonB on Nov-13-2004 23:46:

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Originally posted by nzo
Soundcard / Monitors would be a good purchase.

I was thinking that too, if I had the choice on whether to get some nice hardware synth or a good sound system, I'd get the sound stuff, and because it seems like he already has enough 'equipment' to make music with.