What does Alchemist use to make beats?
In the olden days, alchemists used their power to turn straw into gold. Today, 
The Alchemist turns drums and samples into sick tracks! We found out the secrets of modern alchemy in this interview with the legendary website RapReviews:
Q: What was the first equipment that you used to make beats, and what do you use now?
Alchemist: (I still use) the same one I've still got,
[Ensoniq] ASR-10.
That was back in '04. Has The Alchemist upgraded since then? AkaiPro seems to have more of the story:
Q: What was your first MPC?
Alchemist: The
Q: What has the MPC5000 brought to the scene that made producing better for you?
I feel like my creativity is way iller with the MPC5000. Prior to this I’d sample [to create] all my beats but this machine encourages me to make stuff, not with just samples. I mean, if you know what you’re doing to can make stuff that sounds just like samples. Some of my favorite ones [were made with the MPC5000’s virtual analog synthesizer] too because the sonicness of it, it’s like it almost sounds like it uses more of the speaker, you now what I mean? With the beats that I play off of the 5000, it’s like the whole speaker is being utilized versus more of a mono-sounding beat that I would hear with the ASR.
Q: Have you used any other Akai Pro equipment than the MPC?
Alchemist: I go from the MPC right into ProTools. I don’t run it through too much. To me, because of the built-in compressor that it has and the effects, the EQ and master, I try to make my beats coming out of the machine sounding like the way I want them to be when I mix them. So when it comes time to mix, I don’t have to have the engineer do magic tricks for my beat.
What about Turntables?
Alchemist: I use the Numark TT500.
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