Ski Beatz Goes in on MPC Stems!

[@skibeatz]

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[@imactuallyih3697]

Ski you are an all-time legend

[@skibeatz]

@@imactuallyih3697🫡✊🏽

[@roksoulo]

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

[@audio-vice]

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!

[@pongtrometer]

That’s dope, I’ll try that Ableton now , cheers

[@S7V7N_SEAS]

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.

[@floydhardrick2628]

I had a midiman audio to midi box around 1997 and never new how to use it

[@mr.mr.3662]

It’s just that changing out the buttons on your mpc gives it your own unique style and look

[@dirty.bvstard8672]

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.

[@eddieruxspin]

@@StatetrooperBillyBlast fat pads or nothing lol

[@Ink0ne415]

He put in work on that. The fact he added his own twist to make stems work for him, that was dope.

[@jimmi274]

About to fire up my MPC and this video will be on repeat until I can pull this off myself!

[@tonychopper9142]

Right! This vid just about made me punch out early, go home, and try to emulate 😅

[@faraway3534]

Same here 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@johnniejackson3154]

Me tooooo... damn I didn't know.

[@shawnyc24]

get that shit

[@mpcbeats9218]

I’m calling in sick tomorrow

[@EastsidE_wackO]

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

[@djprominent]

The export to create event was genius too🎉

[@bogard08]

How would you do this? Because I didn’t get that part.

[@djprominent]

@@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.

[@Reggi_Sample]

@@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

[@MrUndetermined]

I been doing this but hey hail ski beats

[@gregserenade6653]

Ski Beats is a genius. a craftsman.

[@MG53v8]

You cant beat a good old day out digging vinyl ❤

[@Iredidv]

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

[@QRS365]

i love how the brother doesn't hide how he does things. newcomers can really learn from him. skibeatz a legend.

[@trimodceo]

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!👍🏾

[@JamesJohnson-xx5gq]

Thats was dope Ave…👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@stevendiamond1080]

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

[@KyddRookie]

He blew my mind with the drums breh! I had to watch the video 3 times to get that truck.

[@mikemoonman794]

GEMMMMZ 💎💎💎

[@hostilesavage4299]

Man he's smooth asf with it... Dope. Thanks for showcasing the homie and sharing the sauce Ave...

[@noramoss]

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.

[@avace917]

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

[@456Edot]

He’s one of the only older producers who doesn’t hate keep! Just brought one of his drum kits & it didn’t disappoint

[@gsmith11172]

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

[@rockjonez61]

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!!!

[@PatrickSeanMcLain]

YEAH...DOPE YAL!!!

[@joeford454]

Yo this was so dope ave,ski killed it.great video

[@djgrandfinaleakamrhurterha5221]

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. 🫡💯👑🔥🫵🏼

[@blasthousemusic]

gems dropped, I'm definitely gonna make a note on that. as far as the stems sound i think its just right .

[@GRISELDATYPEBEATS2025]

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!

[@JazzandLaughter]

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 ☕️🎵🎼🎧🎤

[@GRISELDATYPEBEATS2025]

Heck yeah, Mines on the way tomorrow!

[@JazzandLaughter]

@@GRISELDATYPEBEATS2025: Aayyyyyyyee 🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥🎼🎼🎧🎧

[@bigkeezo]

Wow 🤯

[@kingleo9981]

That was dope, 🫡 to Ski Beatz da god

[@lamontricks1074]

That was dope

[@chemistryrussell]

That was dope.

[@MalikStarr07]

Nice!!!!!

[@Da.7th.Nemesis]

Dope 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👊🏽

[@philmcgroin]

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

[@mrbigyooo]

So basically, he takes how we sample in Ableton and does it on the MPC

[@kingdarkoproductions]

Wooooh ❤️‍🔥 I was really thinking if a mpc was important but you just confirmed

[@H2O_Atlanta]

You can do this in Maschine as well. By using the midi notes from the sequence of a drum loop.

[@kvmoore1]

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!!!

[@AKIRA_GOLD]

Ayee! Gotta swipe those gems when they drop em. Peace Ave.

[@PatrickObiang]

AMAZING!

[@mkII.]

pretty sick

[@FLAVMEDIA]

DOPE COOKUP:)

[@colbyisart]

I learned reverse polarity from he who shall not be named. Probably the best thing he taught me. 💯🙏🏼✌🏼

[@ngoga]

dope

[@RhythmRiftMusic]

That groove jack method saves so much time. Ski beatz is a legend. That beat was fire 🔥

[@illanoiz1]

He gave a few as you said diamond gems and I’d love to see more of his work flow

[@gustavodeoliveira7016]

Thanks for the class

[@TheTonyTitan]

This was damn near a master class

[@omannpro]

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.

[@jon1979roma]

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.

[@nihilgeist666]

love Ski Beatz, I still use his Ableton "slice to MIDI" preset!

[@1234DLTS]

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.

[@johnnysamba5443]

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

[@poerava]

If there were stems back in the 80’s and 90’s one can only imagine how dope the creative limited could have been.

[@TaqiWahid]

Yooo! that was a nice lesson by one of illest producers. good lookin' Sir💯 🔥

[@djsharpmclive1221]

What he did was sick and clever…….nice vid ✅💯🔥‼️

[@RockMixerMusic]

I've done this type of stuff in my DAW but not in my MPC! This is cool for sure!

[@Hoodie_Tello202]

Wooooow the groove jack was a GEM! Techniques for days

[@LoopedInWithD]

Dope🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@beatrocka5]

I've gotta study this one again!!

[@igorbeuk4068]

Finally 😃 Reverse Polarity Phase for precise separation of any element for music

[@miijitobennie]

btw that was Litlte Beaver in the sample.

[@Jamescito_]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[@davido3109]

Ski bitz!!!! Is a Beast!!!!💣how he did that??? 😲

[@mrLRVandross]

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.

[@S7V7N_SEAS]

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.

[@briansingleton1338]

Can you make a tutorial on the techniques he used? Didn't get it

[@blkgostnone4092]

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 🤔

[@pongtrometer]

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. 👀👁️

[@cornballsouptastebad]

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.

[@ljmeredith2437]

I like watching these videos and mass appeals ..makes me feel confident in what im already doing..jus in a different format

[@cizzle456]

I watched this before , still didn’t process wtf just happened shot out to ski legend!

[@tonychopper9142]

Good vid Ave! Yo, Ski, i need that tutorial in slo mo big cuz! 😅

[@scaleshenry]

He basically did that without Midi! He has mastered the MPC if you ask me

[@TheRealJPhillips]

SKI BEATSKI!! GAT DAMNIT!

[@wavycrockett7280]

Fire video keep it goin 🫡

[@Bigheadedwon]

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

[@Reggi_Sample]

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

[@kingDutch833]

That was fly how do we add those rolls and break down

[@RealDealy]

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

[@lonelyheartbaby]

Life under the scoop

[@NewVisionBeats-k1v]

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❤❤🙏🙏

[@mikemoonman794]

Crazy really 🤔

[@KR8TZ]

My A.D.D. does not allow for such things.... Two seconds in,and I'm off to watch television!!

[@jamesknox9924]

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

[@R-sn1ty]

what are these pads? anybody know?

[@electroflamez9584]

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 😎

[@AveMcree]

which MPC?

[@electroflamez9584]

@@AveMcree one plus

[@freedogthedj6293]

Next MPC should have a NPU processor. That could make stems in standalone

[@Bmorewize-b3n]

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.😂

[@DavidBlack-zk3yq]

EVER STOP TO THINK SOME CATS GOT DEM STICKY PADS ON FAM? DON1

[@Pesos_Beatery]

💥

[@nugglife3035]

Yo Ave, can you please explain in more detail what he was doing at 3:50 and how he was doing it? 🙏

[@stulindenjr]

@AveMcree is that Mystic Styles by Triple Six Mafia, but Ski Beatz is so fresh and different and dope

[@AveMcree]

Yes, that is Mystic styles

[@mattyg499]

Do the stemming ect in comp and import them……

[@prodby_cat]

Do the older mpc guys do finger drumming?

[@almightyyotto]

idk man. I haven't bought serato sample yet I'm still with Maschine but it seem like Akai is ahead.

[@Official-Beatz]

The are Old Sp 1200 gems he droppin

[@Cartman-Official]

Dead Presidents pt 2 beat was so great it didnt even need lyrics lol

[@capodeicapi3305]

whagt about the polrity i dint get it

[@dopeMike_]

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! 🤙