![]() I was getting calls from A&Rs in July saying, “We have to stop him. The way he works he just isn’t content until he’s tried recording and mixing a song every conceivable way. “Well, Kanye takes the word meticulous to a whole a new level. So I got to speed them up to a rappable tempo.”Ĭrag Bauer had this to say about him. A lot of old songs are too slow to rap on. I can chop samples into 61 pieces without wasting any memory. “I just put the pitch up on the sampler, and it will go faster. “I sample them at regular speed, then speed them up inside the ASR-10,” he explains. For all the musicians who wrestle with PC’s his process is liverating to watch. Kanye’s use the MPC sampler is inspiring. Almost every other track on The College Dropout features a sped-up vocal sample, be it Dinah Washington on “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” or Chaka Khan on “Through the Wire.” One of West’s trademarks, besides classic ’70s soul loops, is ample use of speed. ![]() West uses four primary pieces for sampling, sequencing and recording duties: An Ensoniq ASR-10 keyboard, an Akai MPC2000 MIDI Production Center, a Roland VS-1880 24-bit Digital Studio Workstation and a Gemini PT-1000 II turntable. “I don’t use a computer or a lot of equipment in my studio,” West declares. ![]() How does he do it? Not with any Digidesign Pro Tools or Emagic Logic rig, that’s for sure. ![]() During the past eight years, the 26-year-old has racked up triumphs with such big-money movers as Jay-Z, Foxy Brown, Nas, Alicia Keys and Eminem. ![]()
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