dont use a mo phat or any pre fabricated "hip hop" keyboard...an MPC a stack of dusty records or the CD reissues (the most importand)and a roland sound module for your basics..guitars, pianos,strings...

the MPC 4000 is an incredible machine, i picked one up in april-may and just recently (2 days ago) intergrated it into my set up..yeah it took 7 months of fiddling with it, and getting the os updates...

get a mpc2000, it reads wav files(native pc format) and you can get kits for every drum machine ever made online for free (i did) you are going to eventually move UP to a mpc (2,3,or 4000) you might...

what is the name of the drum machine sly stone used for the "there's a riot going on" album..it was called the funkbox back in the days..what was the real name? also, larry graham used it on "the...