can you play chords with a sample or single cycle waveform(granular way) in MPC live?
Yeah 64 voice polyphony shared across all programs. Use it how you like until you hit limit.
i called Akai at London and they told me the launch in Europe will take place in End May / Begin Juneā¦
They told May the 22/25ā¦ Then after thereās a lot of Pre-Order to deal with firstlyā¦ so i donāt know when it will be in stock for real without pre-ordering and wait for
Well you can loop single cycles and you have filters and lfos so yes. Certainly I used to do this on my MPC1000 and it worked fine, if anything it will be better on the MPC live as the options for filters and FX are greater. One nice thing is you can actually layer, pan and mix up to 4 samples per pad so you can have 4 different tones mixed in a single sound.
Or you can use the same sample layered 4 times but with different pitches. 
Is there amp env per layer?
The function where you make one pad automatically trigger other specified pads sounds interesting too for layering (this option gives you more layers and with more control over each Inc. 4 x fx etc). Anyone know if this would be playable chromatically? Could make some insane pads/ambient noise with like 10 different pads playing chromatically with 4 x fx each pad and different envelopes etc 
Between 25 th and 30 th seem to be firm for uk now everywhere I checked, with reps who are akso excited to get their hands on one. Obviously life doesnāt always go to plan and itās nobodyās fault, but Iām on a promise of between 25-27 may at my door, which is about 2 weeks.
Failing that Iāll cancel my pre order and get one when Iām back in the uk and ore orders are mostly done as Iām away for a week from the 30th.
Soon tho peepsā¦ 
No, they share the voice(filter, env, lfo ā¦). But there are other tricks if you want to achieve this. You can trigger other pads with one pad. For example Pad1 can trigger also pad2, pad3, pad4 and pad5. So that way you can have different filters, env and so on.
Iām talking about drum programs. Not sure how they implemented the instrument programs.
You can play chromatically drum program with 16 levels or add the same samples on every pad and change the tune on each one. same effect.
In a drum program with this function setup would 16 levels allow to play polyphonic different pitch of all the connected pads/layers? Or only the āmasterā pad?
I read yesterday that up to 4 layers per pad go through one shared filter (and I guess amp) Iām no MPC user but apparently this is the traditional wayā¦
You can tho have a layer trigger other layers, meaning you can then exploit different shaping options per layered sound but played from one padā¦ I guess that means you can play the sounds chromatically from one pad ?! But thatās jus how I thought it may work. Might be wrong.
You can play poly or mono. You just set a setting if pad is a mono or poly. Pad can contain up to 4 samples(layers).
You can pitch each layer individually. There are different modes. 4 Layers can sound simultaneously, velocity switch or you have the option to play them in order or randomly. For example you have 4 variation of the snare and want every time you hit the pad to play one of that 4 samples(layers) in the pad.
Hope that answers your question.
What I mean is this -
Drum program -
Set pad 1 so it triggers pads 2,3,4+5
Assign different monophonic synth sounds and field recordings to each pad and different fx, envelopes etc.
Activate 16 levels for pitch.
If I now play a chord on pad 1 will all pads play a chord? Or only pad 1, with all other pads just playing their natural pitch and monophonic?
^ If the pads are linked then playing one always triggers the other i think.
I suppose 16 pitches may un link them ?! But hopefully not.
EDIT - saying that sometimes it would be nice to still be able to play a single layer on its own by hand and have the linked sounds still play in the sequenceā¦ keen to hear what the options are.
Yep, its a shame the digitakt isnt going to do any kind of layering like this, it could be really fun.
I donāt think that will work. The 16 levels is not designed to play like piano. The idea here is to have variation on drums(one shots). Making polysynth program with multiple layers is not what is designed for.
You will be better off creating a few instrument programs and then copy/paste the notes from one track to the next. That way they will play the same thing and you will have different synth voices and effects for each program(track).
16 levels will trigger only the selected pad. And in 16 levels you have just 16 variations. Itās not like you can play 10 octaves.
Istrument program is the way to go here.
You can resample on DT and have the same effect. With mpc will be more easier later in the project to change the layers, try different ones, balance themā¦, without the need to go and change that in every pattern.
yep resampling is so quick on dt thatās gonna be great for layering in its own way, tho you gotta commit to it Iām still gonna use it loads
See I thought 16 pitches was to do exactly that, to play chromatic sounds, chromatically or however you program it ?!
If you have one pad linked to trigger multiple pads/sounds does chromatic playback or 16 pitches unlink all the pads/sounds ?!
If not Iām not sure why you canāt do it. Sorry if Iām being ignorant, first time learning an MPC.