Hardware Synth Setup & Tips 2019 | MPC1000, Deepmind 12, Reface CP, D-05

A quick walk through / demonstration of my hardware workflow, with the MPC 1000 as the heart of my set up.
I never mention it on camera, but the MPC is running JJos 2xl, although most of the principles apply to free JJos at least, and likely stock too. Maybe I'll go into closer detail with just the MPC.
Everything you see I purchased used on reverb or ebay.
Even though it's almost 15 years since it's release, the MPC1000 is still a very strong 'brain' for a hardware setup. Sampling, sequencing external gear, acting as it's own sound source, all with a logical work flow.

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

Thanks SO much for your videos on the Deepmind. Being a newbie I actually had trouble setting up my hardware. This video got me up and running. I am off to watch ALL your vids concerning the DM12. Thanks again.

[@synthseeker]

Nice job and nice playing at the end! I love seeing how people build their rigs. I think what makes me happiest is that we both label stuff like "

[@JorbLovesGear]

Cheers thanks! I've grown a lot since this video, nice to see its still bringing some value.

[@Buttafingaz]

Thank You for the awesome tutorial with the MPC 1000, very helpful!

[@JorbLovesGear]

Thanks for the comment, I'm happy to help! The learning curve was really long and frustrating for me, hope to make it a little faster for others.

[@DarioMiticocchio]

Thanks for this, I bought a 1000 a while back but while I enjoy it’s “playability” I seldom use it out of laziness really, but I’ve been meaning to include it more as a main sequencer too, I just haven’t looked well into the midi setup. This motivates me to do it. Nice jam 👏👏👏

[@kveg3995]

A young Jorb. Love your stuff man. Keep it up.

[@JorbLovesGear]

This video is proto jorb 😅😭😭

[@christopherowen1776]

Really helpful, thank you! Keep on rocking in the free world and WBS 2021 ROLL ON

[@JorbLovesGear]

Cheers! Good to know even the oldest videos are still bringing value.

[@hughchapman5319]

thanks - cool demonstration of this workflow 👍

[@JorbLovesGear]

🙏🙏Really glad these old ones are valuable too. Cheers!

[@daddyfunk13]

This is great!! I have a super similar setup (deepmind 12, reface cs, reface dx) and I’m looking into getting mpc1000. Awesome to see them all working together so well.

[@JorbLovesGear]

Thank you! I've been looking for a deal on a reface Dx for awhile. Wondering if a longer series on the mpc would be worth doing at this point, it's old but still killer. And there's a whole lot to unpack.

[@daddyfunk13]

Jorb the reface DX sounds great and it’s super dense. It can cover a ton of ground and every time I dig into it I find something new to try. Plus soundmondo is a great tool for finding user patches to tweak for all the refaces. Curious about your MPC sounds - what were the stock sounds like when you got it and where do you source most of your sounds?

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@daddyfunk13 my mpc was used and had some samples on it already, the rest I've been downloading & occasionally sampling myself

[@0601989m]

Wow!! your rig looks uncannily similar to what I´m building right now for a new live set! So glad to see I´m not crazy and that people are making wonderful music with an MPC1000 at the centre of their live set up. I´m grappling with the complexity of learning to use the machine live, i.e triggering sequences and drum tracks while singing and playing keyboards - I feel like an octopus most of the time and my brain is fried from all the multitasking! I´d love to hear some tips on simplifying things to save cognitive bandwidth, so to speak. So if you did a series on this kind of use for the MPC you´d be doing a lot of us a massive favour, man. By the way, congratulations, you´re sounding great!!!

[@JorbLovesGear]

Thank you! An in depth mpc series has been on my mind, just need to find the time..

[@sosickhcdrums]

So helpful! Thanks man!

[@moetarded7757]

Your nutz. I love it!!!

[@sincoseis]

Very helpful. Thanks!

[@JorbLovesGear]

🙏🙏Glad these ones still bring value

[@amundruu]

THE KEYBINE.

[@audreyazwell]

Oh my man uses an MPC? You must have the patience of a saint 😂 I shouldn't be shocked though your patches alone are an indicator of that 👊

[@JorbLovesGear]

Long time fan of the MPC 1000, I honestly can't even visualize a different workflow. Just ordered an MPC Live 2, growing up at last!

[@audreyazwell]

@@JorbLovesGear dude, you sincerely deserve that upgrade fr. I'm legitimately excited to hear that lol I respect anyone going dawless, it takes so much more but is all worth the effort. Maybe one day I'll get there 😏 #goals

[@rafeek6730]

Cool video for beginners thank you

[@SyncdAlien]

Very interesting!

[@stephenhare7369]

Super helpful. I had never heard of the Roland Go:Mixer Pro before. I also had forgotten about Local Midi off for synths - very useful concept. I have looked at every sequencer/sampler imaginable and it seems like the MPCs are still the only game in town...and unfortunately I haven't heard as good things about the rock solid timing with the Live. What are your thoughts on the 1000? Did you consider any others? Finally, how's recording automation (filters etc)? Thanks for putting this up! And I'm guessing you are Canadian!!

[@LukaszBieliz]

Hi. My setup is quite similar and I agree that mpc1000 can be used extensively as the hardware setup core part. 1 thing - I used to be able to record the video together with sound directly from my Behringer mixer via usb plug and play slot and otg adapter into my phone (open camera app). It was super convenient but seems to not work anymore. Most likely due to some android changes but I'm not sure. How is it with Roland go and your setup now?

[@emmarossignol4445]

This is nice, I have a DX7, a Minilogue XD, and a Yamaha RX-5 drum machine and I'm looking into either an MPC1000 or 2000xl for sequencing it all live.

[@JorbLovesGear]

2000xl is more vibe than features, if you ask me. I'm a big fan of the 1000, but tutorials can be a little difficult to find. Now that i've matured in my filming and editing, i should sit down and do something focused on the 1k.

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

@@JorbLovesGear Just found this channel (from the SonicState Nymphes shoutout) and have been going through the archives. If you haven't sold the 1000 yet I'd love to see some focused videos on it! Although I did see a video you posted saying you moved to the Live 2. 😞

[@JimRootsCreaTions]

Hi Jorb, I have an akai mpc 2500 and a behringer deepmind 6, how can I record the sequence of the deepmind 6 on the akai mpc? I have seen your video tutorial that you explain how you have the configuration of your setup, but I try it and it does not work for me Any recommendation ? thank you

[@uhoh007]

Local off on DM12 then midi in from MPC1000, keys work obviously, but what about sliders and menus? Thank you for this :)

[@JorbLovesGear]

All of the deepmind sound control stays controlling the deepmind, think as if the keyboard and synth were seperate units. So a sequence from the mpc can be controlling the deepmind, while I have control of those sounds, and I can use the deepmind keyboard to control another unit, etc etc. Thanks for asking!

[@devvvvvvvvvvvv]

Hey Jorb, I have extreme beginner issues with midi. I just want to get the midi-out from the DJM-900nxs2 to be clock provider for RD-8 drum machine. Any good resources?

[@audreyazwell]

I know this is old but I do know for a fact the RD8 can be synced to an external midi clock. However I'm not familiar with the other piece of gear. I'm not sure if you'd have to set that one up or anything (I'd assume not). But it SHOULD be as straight forward as plugging the MIDI Out to the MIDI In of the RD8 and setting the parameters to external clock, which 1. I believe you can actually do in the synth software and 2. Is one of those options by the tempo knob, you have to shift through some options first (lite menu diving). Hope this helps anyone coming across this or the OP.

[@therealmattmann]

Funky little jam...and nice video. I have a question: How do you store program changes on the MPC? I like the workflow, but is it easy to recall synth sounds on the MPC?

[@SHRKTTH]

Have you had any issues with your external midi controller triggering the internal samples of the mpc and the external synth simultaneously? I’m having trouble toggling that on and off so my external midi controller records on its individual midi track and doesn’t trigger drum sound located in other “drum tracks”. Any thing helps. Great video.

[@JorbLovesGear]

Yes! Make sure you don't have a program on the channels that are midi tracks, sometimes it loads a default one and it'll have samples on it. And depending on your software jjos etc, you can do multitimbral midi, and that will direct different channels to different tracks on the MPC. So you want to say leave the mpc focused on track 1 with your samples and play it with the pads, and then a channel 2 midi signal coming in and controlling MPC's track two, which direct to your external gear. Reading it back. Complicated. Lol Maybe another video? 😁

[@banjoemily3852]

Is there anyway to record, but turn the click off? Like after you lay the drums down it would be cool to be able to go clickless

[@JorbLovesGear]

Yes! In jjos, click settings are on f1 or shift+f1 from the main screen. You can set volume / have settings for on off etc

[@T_ards]

Anyway you can post that choir patch online? That's sweet

[@JorbLovesGear]

Digging through old comments, I eventually did : jorb.gumroad.com/

[@08iwndavidturner82]

very cool mate i have an mpc 1000 took me ages to figure out how to get things working. do you have an IG so we can chop it up

[@JorbLovesGear]

Thank you sir! I don't really do Instagram, but maybe I should 🤔 also I'm considering doing a whole series on the MPC as still being a great choice 15 years later.

[@eppbot]

Thanks for the video, I’m a super nube extreme beginner with hardware synths, I have no idea how to go about set up for gigs, I have a deep mind 6 and a Roland jd-xi. Can you point me in th direction of a hand holding walk through for a synth setup for gigs. If not no worries, thanks mate. So lost

[@dpalaoro]

Do you notice any delay of sound from the deepmind, while using the local off?

[@JorbLovesGear]

That's gonna depend on how you're getting midi back in, latency is very likely with a daw

[@dpalaoro]

@@JorbLovesGear Im talking about with your setup specifically.

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@dpalaoro oh not at all with the 1k

[@dpalaoro]

​@@JorbLovesGearI guess I thought if you're hearing what the mpc is playing back, there would be some delay in the sound.

[@adriannunez8868]

Is there any to record from my iPhone-IPod? Tried a splitter cable Trs to aux and couldn’t hear anything

[@JorbLovesGear]

Can you describe a little more of what you're trying to do? A mixer into an iPhone? IPhone out into a mixer?

[@adriannunez8868]

Jorb more like phone into MPC. I have a CDJ and I’m able to record. But when I’m in the record screen I don’t hear anything with the iPhone connected. I don’t have JJOS either but I don’t know if that plays a role? Thanks

[@adriannunez8868]

The mpc is outed our to my DJ mixer

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@adriannunez8868 it might be the trs splitter you have, have you tried it with other devices at all? I know some are for 2 or 3 band headphone cables, and would try and get 'left & right' from different points on the jack. But if you know the cable works, and you know the cable works with the ipod, it should work with the mpc. Make sure gain is set appropriately

[@adriannunez8868]

Jorb Tbh I just tried my 6-5 Gen iPhone. Other than ill try to use iPhone 8 with the adapter. It’s only worked on my mixer haven’t tried it on the MPC. Other than that there’s a splitter cable on MPCStuff.com that can be used on any MPC supposedly . I just emailed them if there’s requirements or if I need JJOS. Probably get the response tomorrow. Thanks for the advice :)