on the mpc, its is as instant and as fast as you can think and trigger a sound by pushing the pad a sound is assigned toĪnd with the best of both worlds, you can still record it all as audio and keep on doing your thing on the computer afterwards if needed which both needs you to translate the beat you want, into something visual, and then a lot of looping for you to hear the result of your programming. the awesomeness of that is that you can jam out and freestyle your patterns in realtime and so it is much more quicker and effective than sitting and moving around slices of audio on a screen, or dropping notes on a grid. say you want to trigger a snare slice that has the chichachicka roll following it, holding in the pad with note-repeat on would let you hear the snare only, as it keeps cutting itself off (with that particular sample's poyphony set to 1/mono) and leaving space/not re-triggering it will allow it to play out fully.
you could use note-repeat and set your timing to 8ths and jam out your pattern with the slices, the note repeat keep everything in time in realtime, and you can trigger and re-trigger your slices and go from fluid to choppy stuttery patterns. so for jungle this would be extremely useful and simple to do. it should be farily easy (atleast on an mpc) to set up your chopped up slices to cut eatchother off when triggered. So it depends on how you want to work, you can do a lot with oneshots, but you can do the same with break slices. but there is nothing that stops you from doing other type of beats but i think that is mainly due to the mpc being legendary for such use. Many does certainly do hiphop and other downtempo stuff. if you can think of a pattern, then most likely you can also do it You can do anything from hiphop to jungle to idm on an mpc.
All my beats are programmed with oneshots on an mpc, then recorded in cubase for easier arrangement when it comes to bigger parts, and simple edits like re-triggering a small section