My most important gear

As a producer I started my journey at a young age, 14-15 and at that time around the 2000´s there wasn't really that much to work with if you didn't have any money. Sure, you had the mpc´s and SP and so on but they where really expensive. The first ever Daw I used to make beats at a more serious note was Magix Music Maker.

This is Magix Music Maker Professional from 1999

Altho this might been considered as a toy Daw for me, coming from HipHop Jay at the time really found this powerful, both at the way I know could chop and use samples and place drums and arrange the songs I made. Jumping from Magix Music Maker I had a Cubasis LE phase for a while, tho, I didn't produce much in it, it was more for recording tracks with vocals. The next step was actually Logic 5.1 on PC and I stayed on Logic for years, both producing and recording vocals. The next big step for me really was when my uncle bought me a brand new mpc1000 together with a digital portable studio called ZOOM MRS 802.

The ZOOM mrs 802 was a beast at the time.

This piece of gear together with my MPC1000 was a god given gift for me. I borrowed my dads old recordplayer and his collection of vinyl and for the first time I really got in to the art of sampling. I rocked this combination for several years and had so much fun with it. Making beats on the MPC, exporting to the 802 and recording vocals on it. Mixing and mastering, iy had a 40gb hard drive and then burning CD's with my tracks. Just Amazing and so fulfilling, no PC, no screen, just organic betaking at its finest. But then something changed radically for me when Native Instruments introduced their Maschine mk1. I didn't jump on it right away but I kept my eyes on it and it wasn't until the Maschine Mikro MK2 dropped I decided to make the jump. I Sold my MPC, got a MacBook Pro and my Maschine and to be honest, after maybe 6 months I regretted it so bad. I wanted to go back but the second hand market on mic's was expensive and I couldn't afford one so I had to settle with an MPC500. And I loved that sampler, used it for about 3 years until I jumped ship again and landed on the Maschine MK2 and been using it ever since.

The most important gear I have ever owned is the Maschine mk2 for three main reasons, workflow, accessibility and user friendlyness. The categories I value the most in a product.

The inspiration this gear gives me is still on point.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this little post about my producer past. Feel free to download the kits available on this site. They are FREE! Take care / Sam Pell