9th Wonder On "Breaking In" and Producer Boom

9th Wonder speaks about his situation as a new producer making it in the music industry; also assesses the new boom in beatmaking/production.
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Prince Paul Drops Science: Old/New School & Beatmaking History

In this video Prince Paul provides a brief sketch of some the early-/mid-80s history of hip hop/rap music. Touches on history of beatmaking and motives of new/old musical approaches.
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Needlz Breaks Down his Workflow with the Akai MPC 2000XL and the Kurzweil K 2661

Needlz illustrates how he uses his Kurzweil K 2661 keyboard to trigger samples from the Akai MPC 2000 XL. Pay very careful attention, while watching this video. Of course Needlz drops science, but there's also a nice glimpse of his routing chains. And notice how he does use the 8 individual out from his MPC 2000 XL. Also, points out how he's actually more into vintage gear... hmmm... A post-90s era producer who uses vintage equipment to make contemporary music. That's dope.
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Syncing MPC 2000 with Nuendo

Quick look at using MIDI Sync from MPC 2000 with Nuendo.
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Timestretch Tutorial

You may laugh when you first play this video, but the right on clear and simplified explanation of timestretch that is presented here is no laughing matter.
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MIDI Hook Up Tutorial

In this vid, Dr.PhatBeatz offers a very clean, detailed, and well documented look at doing a MIDI hardware hook up. Notice how he equates more outputs with the freedom of creativity.
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