people on GS are saying 2.6 should drop within 2 days. Lets hope! Really looking forward to this one 
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Log into your Akai Pro accountā¦now 
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Thatās just the softwareā¦ firmware still isnāt available.
EDIT: Now I see it
I tested the ALS export. It works, but the audio had glitches and two different tracks transposed onto one another. Like the beginning of 1 clip ad the audio of another - strange
Also, Iām not feeling the step automation. Itās hard to get a value back to zero with your finger. Maybe thereās another way to zero out a step?
For the ALS support, Iām seeing a bug update
Now we just need Dropbox support 
Would sure be nice to be able browse Splice alsoā¦ !
One single instance of Tubesynth and step automations:
I do like my MPC Live.
I liked it before, now itās like BOOM!
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please, donāt 
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I guess you can make changes to the step automation with the Q-links. Awesome
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Love your patch, sounds dope 
In fact, I still have a hard time tubesynth is capable of sounds like these, I need to give those internal synths another go !
have you tried FULL LEVEL? that gives fixed 0 and 127 values at leastā¦ works also in the stepseq
Yeah, need to digg in to 2.6 and force 3.0.3 = so far looking good!
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Wow.sounds great Iāve never really used the onboard instruments.how much automation did you use
The Firmware Update 2.6 can be found somewhere in the middle of the list, not on top of it. Of course, you have to logged in your Akai Account.
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Right. Their page is just all over the place. And wouldnāt a firmware just be official for anyone?
Really enjoying 2.6! I wasnāt even that interested in Automation lanes and the features I want most (multitimbral support + track shortcuts) are still nowhere to be foundā¦and yet, I have to acknowledge that Akai has evolved & continues to evolve the MPC Live in a manner that is somewhat impressive, especially given how terrible Akai usually is!
The MPC Live is a great sampler, an increasingly powerful sequencer and an awesome finger drumming device. And it can be a great tool for live application if one uses it for what it does well (quick sampling, finger drumming, additional sequencing).
It also took me a little to get used to the user interface, but itās starting to be fun now and fairly quick to use.
All to say that I think the MPC Live/X get bashed for not fulfilling expectations because they didnāt at firstā¦but now they do a lot / more than most stand-alone samplers on the marketplace, can compete with many stand-alone linear sequencers, and provide the best finger drumming experience out thereā¦some of the expectations that rest on these machines are plain silly - Iāve seen people bash the X/Live because they effectively are not Ableton Live in a box.
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People used to say that about the Octatrack, too, that whole āAbleton Live in a boxā thing, and I just donāt get it 
People just need to let Ableton Live be Ableton Live, and make music on their hardware if they want to do it that way, and leave it at that.
That said, I only use my MPC in standalone mode, as thatās what I bought it for. It works pretty great for this, imo.
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After a few days trying my luck at this, Iāve had a lot of fun, made a few interesting patches but I have to say, I canāt replicate these sounds by myself. In all honesty, itās probably because I should spend even more time with Tubesynthā¦
Still, can I beg for pointers/screenshots/pictures/MPC programs to reverse engineer your technique ? 
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All credit to Akaiā¦ no moaning from me. The update is great. Love automating stuff. I think certain gestures work really well with touch screens, drawing in automation is one of them, xy pad is another. Itās not the box I payed for back whenever, itās even better, what with the new pluggins (especially the e-paino, for me) new effects, automation etc.
Being able to record track mutes is really really sweet too.
Got to like the box youāve got in front of you instead of wishing someoneāll bring out your dream boxā¦ whenever
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Bit of a technical question here.
I want to use the pads on my MPC Live to trigger drum racks in Ableton Live.
So far I havenāt found a way to be able to do this over USB MIDI. The only way Iāve managed is over DIN cable and using an outgoing MIDI track on the MPC.
But since Iām allowed to use the MPC as an audio interface it would be great to just bring my USB cable with my laptop to play drums in Ableton Live.
Mind you, Iām not interested in the MPC software or plugin in this scenario, only in using the MPC as an ordinary MIDI controller.
Any help?
Iām uploading a small video of the patch and automations in action, not sure I can sync the video to audio properly, but should give you an idea.
Plus consider that while I had a good starting idea (Automate filter and amp envelopes to create a kick and bass feel) there was a huge dose of just fucking around and luckā¦
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The MPC Live or X do not send midi out via USB. No idea whyā¦
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