For MPC-Live owners i would recommend sell and upgrade to Akai Force
Care to elaborate?
Force: Much nicer cosmetic design for little more $$$ and GUI and faster workflow. I like the crossfader and pads and it sounds great.
Live: Never liked the design of it as it basically a MPC Touch --MPC-X is the one to go for if you want to keep the history and look and feel -X has mana in spades
Iām a big fan of the legacy of MPC --it has to look right --so many great records made with the beast.
Your second pic, Force and Monologue XD is what I aim for in the future, but Iām happy with the Live at the moment.
Main reason why Iād want a Force is how the step sequencer works and the clip workflow.
The DIN MIDI on dongles turned me off the Force immediately. Well, that and the name, because Iām not 12 years old (smirk).
Iām enjoying the Live though, enough so that I have considered upgrading to the X. That said, I fly with my gear regularly, so if I did get the X it still wouldnāt replace the Live for me. Not sold on the Force at all.
Cheers!
For me its force and MPC live. Even if MPC X has all the buttons and all that, its not a portable unit. I donāt have a car and not planning to get one either.
The DIN MIDI dongles are a bit of a bummer, but other than that I have no qualms with the force (meh crossfader implementation aside, the curves are not skratch-friendly, fader rails feel cheap yadda yadda ). As for the name, I used to own a synth called LITTLE PHATTY so you cant hurt me no more
And about that splice sub, I read from GS that activating the sub properly takes some messing about before youāre done it properly. When youāve done it properly, all content should be available.
is this true?
Unfortunately it doesnāt seem to be the case via the Akai free trial.
Iām up and running with the free 3 month trial.
My Splice account shows confirmation of these trial details but you only have access to 9 free Sample packs. All attempts to download samples outside these 9 packs result in a message saying those sounds are unavailable with this trial. To get full access you have to go with Spliceās 14 day free trial.
So you did as outlined here?
If you only get a small subset of sounds with the Akai promo, thats lame indeed
Should be possible, in theory at least. The trickiest part seems to be finding a NAS that can connect to the USB ports on the MPC - unless you can also connect an ext drive straight into the big USB 3 port directly? If that works, then there are plenty of NAS drives in the shops with a USB 3 port that you could use.
Email from Splice.
āThanks for for your interest in Splice! Every Splice subscription starts with a free trial. When youāre on the free trial, you can browse, like, and repack any of the samples we offer in our 2 million+ library of sounds. You can also download any samples that cost 0 credits. If you wish to download samples that cost 1 or more credits, youāll need to upgrade to the paid subscriptionā
So far the Live sounds pretty right to me, so I can live with its looks
I got the same type of message, but I can download all the sounds I want, within the 100 a month limit.
I am very happy with my mpc live
Unfortunately it is broken (something is wrong with the output)
Now i might be able to swap for a Force
It might be ābetterā to swap for functionality
But i love the lack of colors and lights on my live
Black pads are fantastic!
Within the 3 months or 14 Days trial?
I made a Splice account to try and forget that the 2.5 update is a joke. It was difficult, because Akai messed up AkaiPro account credentials for a lot of users on their main website (changed passwords without advising people, password change form was also sometimes broken for extra fun), preventing people from logging in and getting the Splice promo code. I deleted the Splice account less than 5 minutes later: I need less bad UX and outdated web apps in my life, not more, and I certainly donāt want to spend time working around bad UX for what amounts to a samples manager.
Still no proper automation editing in standaloneā¦
with the 3 months, using the code you get on your account page.
@tobee I agree Splice is utter shit, looks terrible, but Iāll milk for the free samples I can get before cancelling.
Second that ^
MPC Liveās portability canāt be beaten!
I really donāt understant the reason to not adress some MiDi connections problems. MPC Live is a great product but is pretty useless when you sync it in slave. I donāt know if is a bad decision to not adress it or a strugle to implement itā¦ since 2 years!
Now is trend the brands deliver unfinished products and point that some missed feature will be added later onā¦
You keep wainting and stay patient butā¦ Itās been 2 years waiting for some basic stuff and meanwhile they keep putting out new gears with the same policy, use client as a beta tester, and sometimes with the waited missed feature in a new gear and later on they drop the suport on the old unfinished product and you are screwed up! Yeah they have added some features and some are questionable to not say useless.
They ak for repporting problems and do features request to pretend that they hear their custumers but in reality they donāt really care about what you say!