Danās on crack. I too got the pdf manual and did not find it.
i really think visually the MPC-Live is a beautiful piece of industrial design. It looks solid and hefty and oh so very zaphod beetlebrox blackā¦ like blacker than the inside of a black hole black. Though I do scratch my head about the orientation. I am right handed and would prefer the pads on the right side. I find that when using ipads I tend to use my left hand to make selections on touch screensā¦ So the Live is the wrong way round for me.
All P-locks are not created equal! Yes the speed of entering them is vital, triggerless locks are also an important ingredient. But most important for a guy like me into sound-fuckery is the variety of parameters you can lock. I played around with MPC1.8 and yes you can do Automation locks but the list of destinations is limited. As far as I know this has not been changed in 2.0. On the OT I can lock to a start location in a sample, I can lock the actual sample used, I can lock loop length etc. etc. I donāt see a prospect of AKAI adding these more esoteric lock destinations.
A feature i have always wanted on the OT locks was to be able to quickly define the slew time for the parameter change that is being lockedā¦ then one could build sequences of locks that glided between values.
Also watching that vidā¦ the 16 levels feature is great and all but you have a choice of only 5 parameteres that can be arrayedā¦ why canāt I choose to apply 16 levels to say the reverb length of a verb on the program or pad? So I could array a snare with 16 degrees of verb tailā¦ to playā¦ why restrict it to pitch, velocity, attack, decay, cutoffā¦ and also to array more than one parameter at a timeā¦ so verb length spread of 16 pads together with distortion amount of a distortion fx and with teh option to invert the arraying of the parameterā¦ so as I play up the pads the verb gets longer but the distortion amount dropsā¦ and so on
Dan is saying that at gearslutz because the guys over there are begging for p-locks for the Live. I kinda knew he doesnāt know what he said, so I thought I confirm with the real heads who know Elektron featuresš
I have spent a great deal of time comparing the available specification san information on the AKAI Live and Digitakt and despite owning an A4 and a RYTM I have pre-ordered the Akai Live.
The big 7inch touch screen, battery powered (5-6 hours) and things like the clip launch, SD slot (and 2 USB inc plug and play USB keyboard) etc just make it a much more desirable product to me. I watched the full 2 hour video on how to use Live on ASK and it seems really well though out and very powerful, I love the ableton live style clip launch as well, basically I am just not seeing anything wrong with this MPC/Drum machine for the priceā¦only wish the Live had the CV out, but I can live without it for the portabilityā¦
Motion Sequence is real time recording of everything, from parameter changes, effects to hitting the pads. All data is recorded as you manipulate the machine.
There are external MIDI->CV boxes. They add to the price but this is option if you have modular system and donāt want to get the X.
He said he had an A4, that qualifies as a midi-cv converter 
I use to use the A4 a lot with the synapse module in my Eurorack but last month I cracked an bought an expert sleepers ES-8ā¦I use it with Bitwig 2 (and CV Toolkit) and its greatā¦soā¦I donāt āneedā more CV, but you cant have too many 
8 CV on standard Euro jacks (no 1/4 inch TRS converters etc) is very generous on the āxā, would have been nice to just have qa couple for sync on the Live- It has 6 outputs, I wonder if they are DC Coupled
Any suggestions for good Midi>CV boxes to sit next to live?
Thinking those doepfer dark links look best bang for buck with a nice big glide knob on the front too : )
Doepfer MCV4
Have you seen they have added midi in/out sockets for the Disting Mk 4? http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/
stand alone try this: https://www.tindie.com/products/hotchk155/cvocd-a-super-flexible-midi-to-cv-box/
This seems great and is affordable:
CV OCD
EDIT : Damn! SLiC beat me to it by some microseconds
Thanks, I donāt use euro but, Yeah that cv OCD looks like the one I think !! Cheers : )
Akai confirmed that they will be adding midi over USB-A ports so this is a good news for OP-1 users 
I guess this means we could also control iPad synths without needing an interface or USB-MIDI cable - only the camera connection kitā¦ right?
Sorry for the off-topic but i will share video on sampling history. Some of you might like it:
Letās get to the important questions here: Can I configure the pad colors to change randomly and rapidly?
Nice video from Jade:
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