I always support ski. About 10 years ago first started making beats, he did a tutorial on Ableton about chopping samples and using machine.. I couldn't get it right. sent him a message, the brotha called me 10 mins later and walked me through it... Forever a fan
Yea he is a beast! Replacing the sample audio with your own sounds is an old school gem from the 80s and 90s. We would take the audio of the drum tracks from the two inch tape machine and feed each track into an audio to MIDI box of the computer. Then we’d assign the new MIDI data to a MIDI channel and track within the sequencer. From there the sky was the limit on what sounds we chose. That same technology was then used and is still used as drum mic triggers. Awesome stuff! Ski Beats is pulling on all his years of experience AND making it look so easy….crazy fast too! Great video! I’ve watched so many of them and you helped me on my research to get the MPC live. Keep up the great work! Thanks for all that you do!
Preach!!! That’s what I was just explaining in my comment. Jack the isolated audio, convert to midi using your favorite way (harmony to midi in Ableton or melodyne or whatever and get to cooking a gumbo not fast food.
@@bogard08 this an option when you create a drum program. It’s will create a MIDI part for the slices you created. When he stems the sample in this case, the drums chops and then replaces the sample chops with his samples which allowed him to keep groove of the original chops.
@@djprominentthe og beat didn’t have any / much groove I would argue. If you use this method of chopping before each transient on a heavily swung beat with lots of groove and then create new program with events, each event will now be on the grid instead of swung like the og. Chopping by region preserves the drum groove better but makes drum replacement trickier
He did kill it ..but that's the difference of somebody who really does something DIFFERENT with THE MACHINE . LETS NOT FORGET... all it is is originality and that will always be dope
Ave first, thank you for what you have and continue to do for the community and culture. Secondly, I’ve been an admirer of Ski Beats expertise and body of work for decades. Man, this brother dropped yet another gem with this one fuhsho - bravo, job well done!👍🏾
I know you needed a self care break. I understand I deal with depression. Your content is part of my life line. If I wasn’t in this space I might have ended it already
Good Afternoon to you ☀️🍃 I purchased one of your courses the other day. Thanku for responding to me on X. I appreciate you. Im going to master this MPC. Have a blessed day ☕️🎵🎼🎧🎤
Getting bad quality stems off vinyl is not much different then sampling bad vinyl. Stand alone stems are tolerable full vinyl. .. digital.. not so much.
The creating event and replacing the drums with your own!! Crazy!! I been rocking the MPC Studio and it was just time to upgrade! So my MPC studio one plus will be here tomorrow! That polarity gem is for us old-school heads who really understand what he said Back in the days when I used to rock the MPC2000xl and the ASR-10 reversing the polarities was always something we did. Yeah I'm an old school head and I'm like wait MPC has Bluetooth and wifi now?!? lol He does a similar groove hack for Ableton live which is dope but nothing like what he did on the MPC! Good point on the stems, I believe they made stem not perfect on purpose! Dope cook-up and dope content! Have a great day!
Been doing the same with recycle when it came out. Slice. Bring slice to same note. Replace note with sound. So you keep the groove as shown, but the sounds you want. Stems of course add all the possibilities, so we have great times ahead
WOW! That's a very interesting way to "steal" a beat. Hehehe. Seriously though, I just learned something I didn't know about these new MPCs. I didn't know you could create midi events based on a sample you just chopped and that you could get the machine to create these events to follow the same groove/pattern as the sample, provided you get a perfect loop as he mentioned. Take the generated midi sequence, swap the drums with your drums, and there you have it. SWEET!!!
Regarding processing power needed to do stem separation in standalone: the unit had Internet connection, so akai could make it a cloud based process. Until recently, phones did that for processing voice activated stuff. Newer processors to do that in the device are only just coming on the market
In Ableton, you can get a groove of a track and apply that unique quantization to your track. There are pools of grooves where you can apply that feeling to your drums or anything. I'm not a MPC guy but I'm guessing it's a technology that if isn't present on the MPC, it's a software thing so it could be added if they wanted.
Recycle does that aswell ya jack the events and replace with your own samples used to do a similar thing in logic audio when it was windows based but we would jack the groove convert to midi events and turn it into a quantize template
The equivalent of using stems now was using midi files to jack the individual melodies and chords and substituting them with your sounds and then chopping that. Same vide from the sample without dealing with the audio from your record. You could also layer the chops from your records on top for texture. That’s how I use the stem feature. I isolate what I want to take, then use harmony to melody (Ableton) or melodyne and take chords or whatever and keep it moving. People are just lazy and want everything instant. Stop making chicken nuggets and get back to making gumbo. Thanks Ave for always sharing with the community.
Yo, this guy here is basically reading my mind and I need to get in touch with him that that was dope. That’s what these things are supposed to do I like that.
Ignorance does not mean a person does not know in fact it means they do know but choose to ignore hence the Ignor in Ignorance. To believe that means you don't know because you have to believe it cause you don't know.
They could use the same algorithm as on computer version it would just take much longer to process so they should just let you select a quality level for your separation and then you can wait it out if ur cool with that, otherwise take the lower quality.
Yo!!!!!!!!!, I can’t sleep now after seeing the stealth beat Jack flipping with your own sounds, that’s 4king Genius, that’s like robbing the IMF, and creating a trillion dollar bit coin for 100 dollars and happy meal. 👀👁️
This method of drum replacement actually works better with beats that don’t have much groove or swing. If you have a heavily swung beat to chop and you chop by transient at the beginning of each drum hit. Once you create new program with events the events will all be ON THE GRID, with none of the original groove. You have to then dial the groove back in with swing until it kind of matches the original, and nudge hits yourself. Chopping by region instead of before each transient will preserve the original groove but make drum replacement slightly trickier as again, it’s not on the grid
It's not ignorance. Akai gave us decent quality stems on the SW, so why wouldn't we think we were getting the same quality on the SA? Akai's promise was misleading and i can't think of a youtuber who said prior to the release of the SW or SA stems that the SA stems won't sound as good as the SW stems.
To me, if you're sampling just to put drums and other sounds over the samples, stems from virtual dj, and serato, is good enough for now. I prefer DJ style of using stems cause it's how I learned to produce. This era is like a dream cause I did this stuff before, but not this damn easy! I can make beats in minutes with new DJ programs that have stems. Just watching Ski sample then stop, and change drums, etc. took too long for me, and I had to fast forward🤣. I like to stay in the groove once I'm there
He’s dope, easily one of the most underrated producers ever. Him and Lord Finesse are my 2 favorites that nobody I talk to know about. Y’all reading this look up Locksmith Devil Lasso if you ain’t heard it. One of Ski’s best beats And whatever he did on the MPC, I need to watch again so I really understand. I know it was some next level shit, but with how quick he was doing shit I got kinda lost
jus got an mpc tryna start sampling i chopped my sample and converted them to a drum program but when i try to play my chops with the pads but no sound comes out👎🏾 any tips ? Tuff video 😎
Heaps of the best finger drummers and the better producers I see at the live beat battles all have their pads swapped to more responsive ones Bit of lag in those buttons
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Ski you are an all-time legend
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I always support ski. About 10 years ago first started making beats, he did a tutorial on Ableton about chopping samples and using machine.. I couldn't get it right. sent him a message, the brotha called me 10 mins later and walked me through it... Forever a fan
Yea he is a beast! Replacing the sample audio with your own sounds is an old school gem from the 80s and 90s. We would take the audio of the drum tracks from the two inch tape machine and feed each track into an audio to MIDI box of the computer. Then we’d assign the new MIDI data to a MIDI channel and track within the sequencer. From there the sky was the limit on what sounds we chose. That same technology was then used and is still used as drum mic triggers. Awesome stuff! Ski Beats is pulling on all his years of experience AND making it look so easy….crazy fast too! Great video! I’ve watched so many of them and you helped me on my research to get the MPC live. Keep up the great work! Thanks for all that you do!
That’s dope, I’ll try that Ableton now , cheers
Preach!!! That’s what I was just explaining in my comment. Jack the isolated audio, convert to midi using your favorite way (harmony to midi in Ableton or melodyne or whatever and get to cooking a gumbo not fast food.
I had a midiman audio to midi box around 1997 and never new how to use it
It’s just that changing out the buttons on your mpc gives it your own unique style and look
For me, I don't like changing up the pads and knobs much. But I feel you, i like to see people's personalities leak on to their hardware.
@@StatetrooperBillyBill fat pads or nothing lol
About to fire up my MPC and this video will be on repeat until I can pull this off myself!
Right! This vid just about made me punch out early, go home, and try to emulate 😅
Same here 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
Me tooooo... damn I didn't know.
get that shit
I’m calling in sick tomorrow
He put in work on that. The fact he added his own twist to make stems work for him, that was dope.
The export to create event was genius too🎉
How would you do this? Because I didn’t get that part.
@@bogard08 this an option when you create a drum program. It’s will create a MIDI part for the slices you created. When he stems the sample in this case, the drums chops and then replaces the sample chops with his samples which allowed him to keep groove of the original chops.
@@djprominentthe og beat didn’t have any / much groove I would argue. If you use this method of chopping before each transient on a heavily swung beat with lots of groove and then create new program with events, each event will now be on the grid instead of swung like the og. Chopping by region preserves the drum groove better but makes drum replacement trickier
I been doing this but hey hail ski beats
He did kill it ..but that's the difference of somebody who really does something DIFFERENT with THE MACHINE . LETS NOT FORGET... all it is is originality and that will always be dope
You cant beat a good old day out digging vinyl ❤
He blew my mind with the drums breh! I had to watch the video 3 times to get that truck.
Thats was dope Ave…👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Ski Beats is a genius. a craftsman.
Ave first, thank you for what you have and continue to do for the community and culture. Secondly, I’ve been an admirer of Ski Beats expertise and body of work for decades. Man, this brother dropped yet another gem with this one fuhsho - bravo, job well done!👍🏾
Glad to see my guy ski beats still rocking out. He been doing his thing a long time. Greensboro NC stand up. Guilty county in tha building. 🫡💯👑🔥🫵🏼
This was on point. I saw the "Create Events" function in another video but couldn't remember which one it was. Good thing I saw this
i love how the brother doesn't hide how he does things. newcomers can really learn from him. skibeatz a legend.
I know you needed a self care break. I understand I deal with depression. Your content is part of my life line. If I wasn’t in this space I might have ended it already
Good Afternoon to you ☀️🍃 I purchased one of your courses the other day. Thanku for responding to me on X. I appreciate you. Im going to master this MPC. Have a blessed day ☕️🎵🎼🎧🎤
Heck yeah, Mines on the way tomorrow!
@@GRISELDATYPEBEATS2025: Aayyyyyyyee 🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥🎼🎼🎧🎧
Yo this was so dope ave,ski killed it.great video
Man he's smooth asf with it... Dope. Thanks for showcasing the homie and sharing the sauce Ave...
Getting bad quality stems off vinyl is not much different then sampling bad vinyl. Stand alone stems are tolerable full vinyl. .. digital.. not so much.
YEAH...DOPE YAL!!!
He’s one of the only older producers who doesn’t hate keep! Just brought one of his drum kits & it didn’t disappoint
Ayee! Gotta swipe those gems when they drop em. Peace Ave.
Wooooh ❤️🔥 I was really thinking if a mpc was important but you just confirmed
That was dope, 🫡 to Ski Beatz da god
The creating event and replacing the drums with your own!!
Crazy!!
I been rocking the MPC Studio and it was just time to upgrade!
So my MPC studio one plus will be here tomorrow!
That polarity gem is for us old-school heads who really understand what he said
Back in the days when I used to rock the MPC2000xl and the ASR-10 reversing the polarities was always something we did.
Yeah I'm an old school head and I'm like wait MPC has Bluetooth and wifi now?!? lol
He does a similar groove hack for Ableton live which is dope but nothing like what he did on the MPC!
Good point on the stems, I believe they made stem not perfect on purpose!
Dope cook-up and dope content!
Have a great day!
WOW! To do what Ski did, I would program a drum pattern then shift each note step by step to match the loops drum pattern. This was a DOPE tip!!!
That was dope
Yooo! that was a nice lesson by one of illest producers. good lookin' Sir💯
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gems dropped, I'm definitely gonna make a note on that. as far as the stems sound i think its just right .
Can you make a tutorial on the techniques he used? Didn't get it
So basically, he takes how we sample in Ableton and does it on the MPC
Been doing the same with recycle when it came out. Slice. Bring slice to same note. Replace note with sound. So you keep the groove as shown, but the sounds you want. Stems of course add all the possibilities, so we have great times ahead
Dope 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👊🏽
What he did was sick and clever…….nice vid ✅💯🔥‼️
WOW! That's a very interesting way to "steal" a beat. Hehehe. Seriously though, I just learned something I didn't know about these new MPCs. I didn't know you could create midi events based on a sample you just chopped and that you could get the machine to create these events to follow the same groove/pattern as the sample, provided you get a perfect loop as he mentioned. Take the generated midi sequence, swap the drums with your drums, and there you have it.
SWEET!!!
He gave a few as you said diamond gems and I’d love to see more of his work flow
I got to watch Ski do this live in one of his Dolo classes. This dude is the absolute truth when it comes to music. Always dropping gems and teaching.
That was dope.
Reminds me of the 90's with my MPC 60. but MPC One let's you layer. With honesty MPC ONE IS A BEAST (so is Ski) . nuff love from the UK
That groove jack method saves so much time. Ski beatz is a legend. That beat was fire 🔥
Regarding processing power needed to do stem separation in standalone: the unit had Internet connection, so akai could make it a cloud based process. Until recently, phones did that for processing voice activated stuff. Newer processors to do that in the device are only just coming on the market
In Ableton, you can get a groove of a track and apply that unique quantization to your track. There are pools of grooves where you can apply that feeling to your drums or anything. I'm not a MPC guy but I'm guessing it's a technology that if isn't present on the MPC, it's a software thing so it could be added if they wanted.
I've done this type of stuff in my DAW but not in my MPC! This is cool for sure!
Ski bitz!!!! Is a Beast!!!!💣how he did that??? 😲
I've gotta study this one again!!
Wow 🤯
love Ski Beatz, I still use his Ableton "slice to MIDI" preset!
Thanks for the class
Nice!!!!!
pretty sick
2:19 DJ Quick said he had this tech in the early 2000’s. He said it in multiple interviews. Everyone said he was capping though….makes you wonder 🤔
Recycle does that aswell ya jack the events and replace with your own samples used to do a similar thing in logic audio when it was windows based but we would jack the groove convert to midi events and turn it into a quantize template
You can do this in Maschine as well. By using the midi notes from the sequence of a drum loop.
Wooooow the groove jack was a GEM! Techniques for days
Good vid Ave! Yo, Ski, i need that tutorial in slo mo big cuz! 😅
I learned reverse polarity from he who shall not be named. Probably the best thing he taught me. 💯🙏🏼✌🏼
The equivalent of using stems now was using midi files to jack the individual melodies and chords and substituting them with your sounds and then chopping that. Same vide from the sample without dealing with the audio from your record. You could also layer the chops from your records on top for texture. That’s how I use the stem feature. I isolate what I want to take, then use harmony to melody (Ableton) or melodyne and take chords or whatever and keep it moving. People are just lazy and want everything instant. Stop making chicken nuggets and get back to making gumbo. Thanks Ave for always sharing with the community.
Yo, this guy here is basically reading my mind and I need to get in touch with him that that was dope. That’s what these things are supposed to do I like that.
Ignorance does not mean a person does not know in fact it means they do know but choose to ignore hence the Ignor in Ignorance. To believe that means you don't know because you have to believe it cause you don't know.
If there were stems back in the 80’s and 90’s one can only imagine how dope the creative limited could have been.
dope
AMAZING!
He basically did that without Midi! He has mastered the MPC if you ask me
GEMMMMZ 💎💎💎
I like watching these videos and mass appeals ..makes me feel confident in what im already doing..jus in a different format
That was fly how do we add those rolls and break down
This was damn near a master class
DOPE COOKUP:)
Dope🔥🔥🔥🔥
They could use the same algorithm as on computer version it would just take much longer to process so they should just let you select a quality level for your separation and then you can wait it out if ur cool with that, otherwise take the lower quality.
Finally 😃 Reverse Polarity Phase for precise separation of any element for music
Fire video keep it goin 🫡
Bruh he needs to make his own masterclass and put a price on it. I’d scoop it up quick. Diamond hands down good looking fam❤❤🙏🙏
Yo!!!!!!!!!, I can’t sleep now after seeing the stealth beat Jack flipping with your own sounds, that’s 4king Genius, that’s like robbing the IMF, and creating a trillion dollar bit coin for 100 dollars and happy meal. 👀👁️
This method of drum replacement actually works better with beats that don’t have much groove or swing. If you have a heavily swung beat to chop and you chop by transient at the beginning of each drum hit. Once you create new program with events the events will all be ON THE GRID, with none of the original groove. You have to then dial the groove back in with swing until it kind of matches the original, and nudge hits yourself. Chopping by region instead of before each transient will preserve the original groove but make drum replacement slightly trickier as again, it’s not on the grid
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Yo Ave, can you please explain in more detail what he was doing at 3:50 and how he was doing it? 🙏
SKI BEATSKI!! GAT DAMNIT!
It's not ignorance. Akai gave us decent quality stems on the SW, so why wouldn't we think we were getting the same quality on the SA?
Akai's promise was misleading and i can't think of a youtuber who said prior to the release of the SW or SA stems that the SA stems won't sound as good as the SW stems.
It's ignorance when you don't understand why it's like that... The current spec of the modern MPC aren't on par with a current gen desktop/laptop
@@AveMcree i get what you're saying. I think it was misleading
My A.D.D. does not allow for such things.... Two seconds in,and I'm off to watch television!!
To me, if you're sampling just to put drums and other sounds over the samples, stems from virtual dj, and serato, is good enough for now.
I prefer DJ style of using stems cause it's how I learned to produce. This era is like a dream cause I did this stuff before, but not this damn easy!
I can make beats in minutes with new DJ programs that have stems. Just watching Ski sample then stop, and change drums, etc. took too long for me, and I had to fast forward🤣. I like to stay in the groove once I'm there
@ave do you think stems will be improved over time
Next MPC should have a NPU processor. That could make stems in standalone
He’s dope, easily one of the most underrated producers ever. Him and Lord Finesse are my 2 favorites that nobody I talk to know about. Y’all reading this look up Locksmith Devil Lasso if you ain’t heard it. One of Ski’s best beats
And whatever he did on the MPC, I need to watch again so I really understand. I know it was some next level shit, but with how quick he was doing shit I got kinda lost
What about for breaks with ghost kicks or drum rolls would this method still work?
Definitely
Man, I’m sad that a lot of that went over my head. Looks like I’ll need to watch this a few more times.😂
How do you feel about Serato Studio as a beat production DAW?
@AveMcree is that Mystic Styles by Triple Six Mafia, but Ski Beatz is so fresh and different and dope
Yes, that is Mystic styles
Life under the scoop
btw that was Litlte Beaver in the sample.
jus got an mpc tryna start sampling i chopped my sample and converted them to a drum program but when i try to play my chops with the pads but no sound comes out👎🏾
any tips ?
Tuff video 😎
which MPC?
@@AveMcree one plus
idk man. I haven't bought serato sample yet I'm still with Maschine but it seem like Akai is ahead.
I watched this before , still didn’t process wtf just happened shot out to ski legend!
Can you do an In depth on those diamonds and gems he dropped in the video? Thats if skibeatz is cool with it. ::looks around the room::
Thanks Ave! 🤙
I think you should invent a new powerful MPC or have MPC combined with apple for a more powerful MPC that can handle STEMS😁💪🏽👍🏽
Heaps of the best finger drummers and the better producers I see at the live beat battles all have their pads swapped to more responsive ones
Bit of lag in those buttons
what are these pads? anybody know?
I didn't really understand what he meant at 3:45 can someone explain how this works.
Do the older mpc guys do finger drumming?
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