I totally disagree, the MPC Live is way more convenient than a laptop with a sound card (that will need to be plug in to a power source btw) and midi controller. A portable studio in a box without the need to tether it with anything else.
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The gear i want to record has the need of power, and the MPC cant multitrack. Ok you can make music with samples, maybe our workflow is different. But i personally cant see the complete battery driven park session. The post here is meant as answer to Genoart.
Actually you can multitrack up to 8 tracks, not all at once of course. Also there are plenty of battery operated synths available nowadays even analog, my personal list is OP-1, Monotribe Volca Beats and PO-12. Iāll probably carry around my MPC Live like a bookworm carries around books. Iām strickly speaking about the MPC Live, I will agree with you about the MPC X though. If you already use Ableton Live the MPC X might be overkill.
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I had planned to sell my Electribe Sampler 2, and buy a used Electribe 2 to go with the MPC Live - but then I got the great idea to keep the sampler and stuff it full of single cycle waveforms. I now have 999 different āoscillatorsā on it. These two Electribes, and a JP-08 will pair perfectly with the MPC Live for park/forest-jams, I hope. These are the days of our lives!
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Did this on get posted ?
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Not badā¦ I hope this MPC Live will be in Store in April 2017 as they said or at least in May.
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My pre-order retailer claim it will have it on April 1st as part of the first UK batch. Better be true or as a joke Iāll torch their storeā¦
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Which store have you pre-ordered from?
I guess weāll know more during Marchā¦
The one that catches fire 1st Aprilā¦
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I canāt announce all the details of my future crime on a public forum, can I?
It a store in the WESTEND of London that sell stuff for DJs (.co.uk)
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Yeah it wasā¦ itās been a long thread 
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Turnkey?
Now that was a shop that deserved an arsonists accelerant and ignition!
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i just got a vague āspring 2017ā update on my order. sad face
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Yeah, Iām going to politely disagree here. One of my old favourite artists is Ian Pooley, who uses an MPC for everything.
Heās about as far away from hip hop as I can imagine.
Great vid of his here:
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Top notch vid! The MPC 3k has a great sounding filter and swing. Love Ian Pooley.
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Seen Iain pooley DJ few times. Great producer
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Yeah, great video ā¦ shows that the MPC is much more than a Hip-Hop machine. But the web is full of ābros, killing the MPCā ā¦ 
AFAIK the MPC was supposed to be a āMIDI Production Centerā at the beginning. This is for instance the way I use it up to date. Well, with making use of its audio features too, which have improved over the decades. Itās much fun and creative to chop up and remix self-created clips and loops. This and internal and external MIDI control makes it a center piece of my studio.
Maybe you misunderstood me writing āadopted by Hip-Hopā, which is not saying thatās the only way to use it. But I definitely missed to mention MIDI.
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Thing is though Iain is using the proper mpc from when akai were a different company. The guys making the new machine are the company behind the rhythm wolf and Tom cat, not the mpc 3000. Itās as much a numark product as it is akai, long gone are the days of akai making the best samplers in the world but Iām still hopeful this is the machine that changes that. Iām just not relying on a legacy thatās no longer there
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The live and X have got polyrythms already. They also has lfos and assignable macros on the q-links.
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