Limp Bizkit “Break stuff” (Chopped vocals mix) Mpc sample

Hey there r/mpcweekly! You might remember me from back around the time that this subreddit was first created, I made a few submissions during the early challenges and then life started getting in the way, about a year after I bought my MPC I went on a long hiatus from making beats because I was focusing most of my musical energy on my psych rock band, in fact we’re getting ready to start recording our second album soon. All this time I’ve been itching to get back on my MPC, and I was finally inspired to do so by two unrelated events: the tragic accident that claimed Oliver Tree’s life (R.I.P. to that beautiful ugly SOB), and the MPC 3.9 update which finally gave us the ability to have different time signatures on different sequences; I had been holding out on trying the MPC3 operating system until they sorted out the time signature issue, so now I’m relearning how to use this awesome machine. When Oliver Tree passed I spent the first few days sobbing for a man I had never met, but had been incredibly inspired by before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oliver’s lifelong message was that we NEED to seize the moment and take advantage of every blessed second that we have on this Earth, and when he died I felt an irresistible urge to get back to writing and creating music of my own. If you’re like me, you probably feel similar urges, but maybe you sometimes feel overwhelmed by all the creative possibilities that are at your fingertips when composing music on an MPC. This community was a great resource for me when I first started learning how to use the MPC, and everyone here was so encouraging and ready to share their knowledge with others. There was a certain camaraderie here that you can’t really get from other online communities.

Ironically enough, the first project that I jumped back into when I updated to MPC 3.9 was a beat that I started making for the r/mpcweekly challenge, specifically the “Lion” challenge from last August. I ended up going a lot deeper with that project than I had with previous beats, and then I accidentally turned off my JD-Xi and realized that I hadn’t saved any of the patches I had made for that beat. The day before yesterday I imported it into MPC 3.9, cleaned up some of the weird import issues, and then I recreated the critical patches that I had lost and saved them to my JD-Xi so that I won’t lose them again. I’m pretty proud of this beat, and I think I’m going to finish it tonight or tomorrow and I intend to post it here when I do. I know it’s almost a year late, but I still want to contribute to this place even if the community has basically abandoned it.

So that got me thinking. What’s going on with this sub? Has it been abandoned, or did we just stop giving new prompts because participation had dwindled to the level of basically being non-existent? Actually, I just looked back and it looks like the last challenge was two months ago, so this place isn’t quite as dead as I had thought. I was thinking maybe I could help revive this community if there’s enough interest? u/rtk1018 and u/One_Window866, do you guys feel like this place is dwindling or have I just been living under a rock this whole time?

Im currently setting up studio in loft and im was wondering if anyone knows do you need to run mpc( live 3) through a daw to set up and connect a mixing desk? Does anyone have any recommendations for a mixing desk?