TONELAB Quick-Tips

20 years ago, today, we lost one of the finest beat-smiths to ever grace the MPC3000. His name was James Dewitt Yancey, AKA J Dilla / Jay Dee. He would've turned 52 last Saturday, February 7th, so DJ Ransom, and myself, recorded a tribute to one of HipHops greatest and most revered beat-maker/producers of all time.

It's with great pleasure TONELAB Presents this special and touching turntable tribute to the late and great J Dilla 🫡

4 months ago | [YT] | 1

TONELAB Quick-Tips

TONELAB presents Australia's premier scratch king, J-RED and his Turntable Tribute to one of Hip-Hop's most important production teams BOMB SQUAD!

If you've heard of Public Enemy then you've heard of Bomb Squad.. watch J-RED cut it up!

9 months ago | [YT] | 2

TONELAB Quick-Tips

Wanna learn a hack to jack ‘SWINGS’ out of an MPC, or something similar, and use them in your ASR, EPS or some other Sequencer?! ..then, check this out!

9 months ago | [YT] | 2

TONELAB Quick-Tips

Wanna learn a hack to jack ‘SWINGS’ out of an MPC and use them in your SP1200 or some other Sequencer?! ..then, check this out!

9 months ago | [YT] | 4

TONELAB Quick-Tips

How to Record, Delete & Insert Track Mutes into the MPC4000 and then..
Destructively convert those Track Mutes into tangibly 'absent events' 👀

11 months ago | [YT] | 4

TONELAB Quick-Tips

Here's a new Tonelab series called ‘Short-Tips’, each episode focuses on a specific feature or function. Starting with the Pioneer CDJ-3000. These will be a quick 2 minute, phone-friendly exposé on various technical tricks. First and foremost, for the DJ community, let's take a look at 'TAG LIST' feature!

** Most of these features will also work on older CDJs, or larger all-in-one Pioneer DJ Controllers too.

1 year ago | [YT] | 2

TONELAB Quick-Tips

How to pair MPCs with Akai Rack Samplers: A beginners guide

There are some older, but still popular Akai Samplers that don't really offer multi-timbrality as such, and then there are some that do! ..but, getting 2 Programs available at the same time can be a little bit of a trick, if you're unfamiliar with the OS.

1 year ago | [YT] | 5

TONELAB Quick-Tips

For those with MPC4000, Z4, Z8, S5000 or S6000 Samplers.. here's a rather crude, but easy way of editing Programs & Multi's, in your Sampler, from your computer using AkSys!

1 year ago | [YT] | 4

TONELAB Quick-Tips

Control Ableton's Transport Controls from an MPC in Controller Mode! ▶️⏹⏺

1 year ago | [YT] | 2

TONELAB Quick-Tips

Tonelab Presents an Instrumental Turntable Tribute to another great.. Lord Finesse!

1 year ago | [YT] | 1