All these horror stories make me happy that I picked One instead.
The only thing I really hate about One physically is that you are not able to see button labels in the dark. That orange light shoots straight into your eyes through that clear plastic. These buttons look cool and kinda vintage but it would be ten times better if they were black and had labels on them.
I suspect itās TPE, not silicone, but Iām just guessing. Fwiw, neither is toxic.
Iām sure itās safety approvedā¦still āfeelsā toxic.
All I know isā¦itās not naturally grown or produced. So itās safe now, till years from now they find it permeates the skin and causes cancer.
Whether that ever happensā¦still feels gross 
Makes using it less enjoyable.
I think this pseudo rubber thing has been there since the 70s. Iāve seen that shit in car interiors from the 80s and the 90s. I remember my dads car with that sticky, yucky goo on the front panel, switches, handles and so on. By now, they would have known it causes cancer. But I kind of agree, it causes mental cancer because of that frustration when it makes still perfectly good old things unusable 
They are still trying to decide if plastic causes cancer, now that micro plastics are found in humans at the cellular level. It is ACTUALLY still trying to be determined what effects plastic in yours CELLS had, whether its bad or not. My guess is, when all is said and done, it probably is.
Soā¦tho the argument for time sounds good, the science may still be up in the air. Plastic has been around a LOT longer than this rubberized coating. Tho I would imagine it was more toxic in the 70s.
How long did it take for smoking to be deemed harmful. I mean right out the gate, how would one even THINK anything other than oxygen going into the lungs is good.
I think i would take case off,sand it down to the plastic,give couple of coats of modelling paintā¦ā¦or something less toxic ]]
Tbh just using electronic gear is not particularly healthyā¦ā¦]
No doubt. 
Maybe turn it in with the flippant, unfounded and unthoughtful references to cancer.
Question - when in drum program edit I can select all pads and then edit a parameter such as filter cutoff. Unfortunately it doesnāt seem possible to assign said filter cutoff for all the pads to a q-link for live performance. Is there a way around this?
Has to be made by a hipster company, not a established decades long brand.
Like some companies get called out because their gear does too much lol
Yesā¦ big jumps in price during the last 8 years. There is a thread that has discussed this at great length.
Iām from the US butmoved here in 2005. For years aside from exchange rate I remember prices on MOST gear was comparable. The used gear market while not robust (aussies are hoarders in my experience 
) was reasonable with prices.
You can assign say a LPF filter to a whole program which you can modulate frequency using a qlink during a live performance.
First you need to add a LPF on the program you need it on. Say insert 3.
You need to go in qlink edit mode, hit the āprojectā tab (bottom left).
Once you land on that page, from top to bottom, select āprogramā, then insert 3, then select the fx parameter you will want whichever qlink to control (here frequency) and you should be good to go.
That qlink, in that project, will always be controlling the frequency of your LPF for this program.
Check this video where this dude explains it at 4:18, except that he assigns a qlink to a fx parameter which will control a submix instead of a program. So the only difference is that when he choses āsubmixā you need to chose āprogramā:
https://youtu.be/d1UWKRHLaZI
Hope this helps!!
Gonna chime in here on this rubbery plastic business. A hommie recently let me take some acetone to a completely sticky numark orbit. It was so messy and acetone ate thru some gloves (apparently thereās chemical resistant gloves derp). I had to take the thing apart, like remove pcbs and pads and everything, just the part your cleaning should receive acetone. I was skeptical but it worked. My mpc live 1 (and akai push 1) are currently beginning to show signs of this sticky business and although its gonna suck when i have to do it, at least i know thereās a way.
#1 reason I updated from my OG Live to the Live II Retro edition. No more sticky business for me. And as an added bonus I really like the look of it, reminds me of my old MPC60 and MPC2000XL.
Wouldnāt it be easier to just get a custom vinyl skin and stick it on top of the mess?
I personally think the black Live 2 is so plain anyway, itās screaming for some customization. I might just put a bunch of stickers on mine whenever I sense the slightest stickiness. 
Im averse to skins. I live in a hot and humid a$$ climate and i fear the wraps would just make the sticky worse. Plus i like taking stuff apart. Ive taken the push and mpc apart and thats how i know its gonna suck lol.
What do you mean?
You gotta tear it down to just the shell before you clean it with acetone. You will also lose all the text. Not a task for the faint of heart.
In the early days of the live I saw someoneās tear down post on the mpc forums. I had to laugh to keep from crying. A real,kick in the pants. I knew Iād never attempt it. Legacy machines were stupid easy to mod and upgrade.
I have such a hate / love with these units itās like a disorder.
