That is a great tip! Thank you.
@VDB @Automageddon @d0nk3y you guysā¦ I am deeply grateful for your assistance. I loved my MPC 1000 but the tiny screen and somewhat clunky grid editing make me move to an MPC Live, which is so good but becomes a million times better when you have buddies able and willing to help.
Yep this is pretty much what I do, especially coming from the mpc2000xl where I would only stick to 1 program and 1 sequence 99% of the time.
Just use track mutes for the variation.
I worked on my track last night, duplicated a sequence, duplicated the track within the sequence that I wanted to use a LP filter on, then added the filter and deleted the original non-filtered track from that sequence. Now itās seamless when I switch between them. Thank you all!
Also been messing with the effects, particularly the compressors on the master. They donāt sound half bad! No idea why there are Akai and Air effects, seems pointless to duplicate, would love to be able to remove some of them. But a small gripe.
The XYFX are a lot of fun to play with. Been enjoying the BP Filter XYFX with a couple hundred ms of release, makes things flow a little smoother and makes for a more unique effect to my ears.
The air effects are made by Air, not Akai, and take more power to run and are of a better quality. It is good to have options depending on what you need. The Air effects sound better but can kill your CPU.
Some Liquid Funk, 100% MPC One standalone, though Iām not sure WTF Soundcloud is doing to my waveform, took hours to level everything off to play on my decks
Is there some clever way to hide the factory sounds? Iāve realized itās such a killjoy to scroll through X āsoft RNB kit mclovināā kits to get to the stuff youāre looking for.
I must not be the only one to struggle with thisā¦ :-o
Also; if you have tips for where to source drum kits that are good for techno/ādowntempoā/dubby/glitchy stuff, in MPC Live ready format, Iād appreciate the tips!
Thanks people.
Donāt delete the factory content, as it can make the Mpc unstable. Itās a documented issue and it happened to my original Live.
And even though Iām loathed to say it, Iāve just stuck with Splice for sample packs and I do enjoy the convenience of direct sample transfer.
Sadly those loathesome RnB McLovin kits are there to stay.
My favourite techno sample packs are from Zenhiser but they aināt cheap. I make my own samples to alleviate the cost and to forge a unique sound.
plug in a usb/sd/hdd/ssd and resave your favourite kits on whatever folder structure you want. then disregard the MPCs built in storage. I think the MPC breaks when you delete it all because it scans for that folder as part of the startup. If it canāt find it then it gets stuck on that step. The storage is literally a micro sd inside the MPC, makes me wonder if you could just move all the default sounds into a subfolder and still work assuming the path above it stays the same. Donāt want to brick my mpc into a loop to find out though
Iāve deleted all the Akai default flub off the internal memory before. It wasnāt fun. Manage to get Akai to send me it all again thankfully.
How f@cked up is it that the OS implementation is tied to the factory content???
Agreed. Iād LOVE to pull out all those crappy R&B and lame EDM kits. A lot of those sounds are like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Itās a drag wading thru that stuff. If they implemented favouritesā¦that could alleviate digging. But it would be nice to reclaim storage.
Very!
Indeed, itās one of the reasons I sold my first MPC Live. Iām over it now though. Itās not worth missing out on an awesome device, the worthy modern incarnation of the classic MPC legacy, because of a splash page going on about stupid genre templates I have no intention of using. Itās like the Microkorg with itās silly genre-based preset clusters - itāll age the machine but perhaps one day will evoke warm fuzzy feelings.
Why do you find it a problem?
I never go near the factory contentā¦ I double tap Browse and go straight to my main drive, so it just doesnāt feel like an issue.
You can also use the 5 quick links, why not just bypass what you donāt want to see?
I donāt get the problem. I have an SSD and a micro SD in my Live filled with my own sample libraries. I rarely go to the factory content as I have no need for those types of sounds/kits. Why should I be offended or angry about free content that I can easily just leave be? Itās like me complaining about the quality of the radio stations when I never listen to radio anyhow. Nobody forces anyone to save anything to the internal drive.
Simultaneous similar response.
Because from a software engineering perspective it is very bad practice. It riles me. And yes, that aside, the MPC Live 2 is fucking awesome.