It is a better version of the manual, more structured and better explained.
I haven’t read it front to back, but I keep it open when I’m playing with the MPC and check stuff if anything baffles me.
It hasn’t been super useful, as I know my way around the machine and I love learning by doing, but it comes really handy.
Something I forgot, what bothers me is that the pdf is not properly indexed, so you can’t tap on the table of content and jump there.
Really? This is news to me. Better PM the author over at mpcforums in that case… Maybe he can update the pdf
I just double-checked.
Not a biggie as you can still use the search function, but this is one of my pet-hates.
So my drummer pushed the Live off the keyboard stand. 
Sent the unit tumbling about a meter to the ground.
Happy to say it is pretty sturdy, still works and no visible damage.
Am about to pull the trigger on a Live. Looks like the UK price has generally fallen about £30.
Bought a 2nd hand MPC Live off eBay on Saturday night for £700 thanks to a tipoff from user @Delboy!
Fingers crossed I’ll get on with it…
drummers… those animals… lol joking… im a drummer. he was prolly framed by the keyboardist.
trust me. I have it and ive thought about it working with a mouse would be sweet. some functions would be great with the mouse.
For info, in case it’s of use, I just got juno.co.uk to price-match against various others and they went further - down to £950.
Ye Juno are great for these kind of deals…I got Live from them for £799 when they got the 1st batch and i didn’t even preorder go figure…
Yeah - I’ve been using them for years, for digital downloaded DJ material.
Also like the fact that they use Royal Mail for parcels, which means undelivered parcels go to my local post-office, instead of a depot 30 miles away.
Absolute Music currently have 2 × unboxed MPC Live at £899 https://www.absolutemusic.co.uk/akai-mpc-live-standalone-music-production-centre-as-new.html
Got my MPC Live yesterday. Haven’t had chance to give it a good run-through yet, but am liking the quick sequencing work-flow via the touch-screen! 
I’ll be thinking about how to potentially combine Octatrack with it…
Hi guys.
After playing around with my Live for some time now, I wonder if this unit is capable to work as a Multitracker, i.e. Tascam DP xx or somehow as a mixer. Is it possible to use the two input pairs simultaneously, e.g. one for recording while the other input is just looped through, just like a Metronome or for monitoring while recording a sample?
Cheers
Only one pair at a time i’m afraid via switch (Phono/Line)
Hm, ok, thx for info. Any idea, if this might be different with the MPC X?
It is, MPC X can record all of its inputs at the same time.
That’d perfect. Is this confirmed or stated in the manual somewhere? As I consider selling the Live again and go for the X instead, the X shall become the center part. This would include that not always sampling will be done, but simply music from different sources shall bypass the X (which is feeded by a patchbay) and sent through the X to the speakers. Acts like a mixer. If this works with the X, I could sell my Tascam as well.
bumping my own: it does individual length per track - sadly though, only full bars