I remember Madlib complaining about his engineers like a motherfucker in an interview. My advice for workflow: Get an older MPD, MPD32 is killer bang for your buck on your local craigslist clone. Oh and the S-950 and S-1000 but their prices skyrocketed over the last decade. Go for 2000XL with CF card mod, or 60 MKII, the rest is probably not even worth it nowadays (or get an Sp303 that Dilla, Dibia$e etc. Another thing that ends up in almost every beat I make is the Vulf Compressor, it adds a beautiful overrall vibe for the track, it's like insta lofi and sounds really genuine.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah and it fucking sucks, never get that machine in case you saving up money.

Now for plugins: one plugin that's been very helpful and cool to make basses is the OP-X PRO-II, looks weird but has a bunch of good presets and sounds super good. I'll go first: I've been experimenting with sidechain using a special track just for a short midi signals aligned with actual kick samples, with that technique I've also been experimenting using sidechain in some places where there's actually no drums, I found that if you managed to discover the right places it creates a sweet grove by itself, it's so good!

Be it a specific plugin that works really well for a specific task for someone, be it a mixing technique, a cool way of sequencing hats or sidechaining the kicks. The idea of this Thread is simply to be a place where we can exchange production tips about anything related to this kind of sound (from Nujabes, Dilla, Madlib to Knxwledge, Jinsang,etc).

So I'm starting to dig some Lofi Hip-Hop and making some tracks already.

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