Finally got to use the MPC One Plus I ordered and I’m incredibly impressed so far. I was going to check out the F9 expansion pack, but are there any specific plugins or sample packs anyone would recommend?
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I use it to control pigments, omnisphere, etc with a midi track over usb. I haven’t set up any q-links or tried pads with drum plugins but the keys, wheels work great without any setup.
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Damn that’s one of the other pieces of gear they stole from Eddie. He was using the FXs to spice up the 3k samples . Luckily he reached his GoFundMe goal & then some.
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yeah I saw that… painful to even hear about it as I’ve had a taste of that…
the SU700 was the first hardware version of ableton live, I loved it as much as I hated the SU200 
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Life is wickedly funny. Sorry you had to go thru that.
I got the RS7000 which is the last groove-box Yamaha did.
I just finished moving all the RS beats I made to Force. This was one of the undeveloped ones from 2018 I was going to delete until I tapped into the power of the Dark-side. Still I work in progress… All sounds is from the RS. No FXs just recorded the RS via Force. The Force crossfader is messing with the bass:
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I’m working on a free sample pack called “The Golden Age of Porn” because all samples have been sampled from 70es and 80es porn, as you would, here’s a beat I made on the MPC using only those sounds (both music and vocal snippets) while kick, snare and hi hats are from other sources.
I will obviously share here once ready…
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This had to be more fun than digging through crates of old vinyl.
Cheers!
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I gave myself carpal tunnel, don’t tell me I’m not dedicated to the art of sampling …
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su200 I hated. Loved the su10 though - first bit of gear
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I’ve been playing around with my Octatrack mk2 lately, and it does do some things that nothing else does… but, I got into recording some live keys/synths into it to chop and work with and got to the point of ‘why aren’t I using my MPC for this?’…
I realised that every time I have a flirtation with another sampler, they always make me appreciate my Live 2 more and I come back to it.
It’s happened to me with the SP404 mk2, MC707, TR8S, the Force, Pioneer SP16, Octatrack, Rytm mk2, Push 3 and probably some more I’m forgetting.
Don’t get me wrong, they are all workable and have their strong points, but:
As much as the current MPC has its quirks, it’s still the best all round sampler/workstation you can get… and I’d even say the Live 2 in particular is the pound for pound greatest.
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Anything that inspires you can be the greatest from moment to moment. On paper Live 2 is arguably the best integration of standalone hardware and software. I can’t comment for ableton users because I know push 3 standalone caters to a specific workflow.
There are times when the elektron workflow makes more sense or is more fun, but for most of it there is some way to do it on the current mpc platform and usually you can find it by googling.
One thing that recently came to my attention which was in my periphery but not the first thing on my mind was when I saw someone say "if you’re using an MPC and any kind of daw, and you aren’t using the MPC (beats) daw to some extent, you’re missing out on a huge benefit of the integration between the hardware and the software. Talking about bringing whole projects over to the computer and moving them back seamlessly if you wanted to, and that made total sense to me.
I’m not currently using the MPC daw on my computer and I mostly got live 2 because I wanted to stay away from daws and computers right now, but it’s made me reconsider how I should be tracking things out because it seems silly to record from the hardware when the project can just be moved and loaded and worked from there, already multitracked for me.
It comes down to my comfort zone and what’s familiar and comfortable for me. I guess I’ll have to break out of that if I want to really make the most of these tools. I enjoy the way elektron devices interface with the computer for recording, but it’s just a different type of integration where mpc is more like a suite, where everything (hypothetically) works together, and it’s all by design.
I don’t have the kind of errors and paranoia about will my shit crash with my elektron devices and that’s reassuring, but I’m for the most part pretty happy with the akai device capabilities despite the sort of computery workflow. It certainly ticks a lot of boxes, no doubt about it.
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I am an Ableton user, and I still prefer the MPC over the Push 3 for working standalone.
This is why I still own and like a lot of the devices I mentioned, especially my Analog Rytm (A4 and Syntakt), they inspire creativity in different ways… so I will normally feed the MPC or Ableton with these as the source material.
I get this… for me it’s about creating and evolving ideas/vibes… I don’t think I’ve ever completed a track with my MPC but I’ve started tons of them and got to the point where I know what needs doing. I usually then switch to Ableton to finish them.
I’ve had it in mind for a while that I’d like to complete a project, maybe an EP, fully with the MPC… I’m going to check my diary. 
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I’ve just got hold of a MacBook Air and looking at using the MPC software with my MPC one plus.
How do you get the projects into the software? Is it a case of saving it to the SD card and then moving that across the the computer or is there a better way?
What ‘extra’ features do you get within the DAW environment that aren’t available in standalone? Sorry - all new to me!
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I really don’t know because I’ve never done it, however I believe your project file contains everything, samples, sequences and all, and I assume you’re moving the project file or a copy of it, so you could likely do it by corded transfer or sd card. I’ll have to figure it out as well.
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Yeah, I tried via USB with no joy so think it will need to be via the SD card, which is slightly annoying. I wish the MPC had the same class compliant ease of use as the SP404.
Can’t try it though as will need a usb c/sd card adapter
Yeah better way than that. Plug your MPC and running the software on the computer and then on your MPC you go into controller mode.
Now you have everything you had on the standalone plus you can add any vst you have installed on your computer. You could just pretended you’re standalone for the most part and only look at the computer screen when you need to interact with the plugins. That means your already loved MPC workflow is even more powerful cause now you have access to all your vst effects and instruments within your MPC.
In order to open your already started standalone projects all you have to do is open them. You go to the browser and places and find the drive where you’ve saved your project. Presto.
I wouldn’t use the software on its own but together with the hardware. I mean you could. But if you have the hardware, why would you? Sounds so silly just thinking about it 
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If you want to do post processing or share your music you need to get it tracked out on the computer somehow, I was mostly thinking in that capacity.
Thanks, I’ll give that another go. For some reason controller mode wasn’t working for me - so I couldn’t connect the two. I’ll give it another go.