Thanks a bunch for your impressions so far!
I’m still 100% invested in mpc and I’m not jumping ship, but I’m also using ableton a lot so that’s why I’m interested in the P3s as an addition. I’m considering to offload some (most other) gear to fund it now that it’s on sale, because it’s not cheap… 
OPx-4 is possibly the most underrated vst synth in all of MPC and Hardware.
So complex but very rewarding.
Where did you see the Black Friday sale for MPC?
Master troll at work. Complaining about people’s legitimate criticisms. Complaining about people’s legitimate feature requests & discussions. Ridiculing contributions that aren’t your own…BUT…your own “contributions” show you are the very thing you’re complaining about with little substance at all. Either you’re trolling or your attitude is just unacceptable, either way I’ll stop taking you seriously in any manner and will mute you from now on.
I purchased from the AIR Music Tech website:
Which seems to show diff prices than the MPC store.
oh yeah, that’s how I scored a bunch of AIR plugins for MPC standalone for peanuts in November 2022. I simply went to the AIR site instead of the Akai one.
Just a heads up for folks purchasing from AIR, they are selling vsts that don’t work on macOS Monterey and beyond.
I purchased several synths like Boom, Drumsynth 500, Loom 2 (which I fricking loved) and others that still don’t work on Silicon shortly before I upgraded my old mac laptop.
To be fair, I got Loom 2 working for a bit on one of my Silicon Macs but it eventually stopped working in Logic.
I’ve written them about it and all they say is “we are working on it”.
It’s been at least 2 years since they’ve been “working on it”.
EDIT: Just to clarify, some of the vsts do work in “Rosetta” mode but not all of them. Can’t remember which, but I didn’t buy a brand new mac to cripple it’s speed by running Logic in Rosetta mode.
Here is there current compatibility chart:
Because I’m that kinda guy, I just chatted with them again… no updates
Tried the remaining plugins to see if I’d like them.
I suppose if I was thinking more ahead I could have ended up with the instrument collection bundle and used my One+ voucher for the Mini D but this stuff wasn’t on sale when I got it and I wanted that OPx4.
Also if you do purchase, keep the activate plugins window open in preferences and then hit refresh when done.
I find if the MPC is offline when the purchase happens I needed to login again.
Oh really, I’ve only heard people from multiple sites giving OPx-4 praise as 1 of the best synths. So what are you blabbing about?
Now if you had said Organ or maybe Odyssey with its amazing & unique Echo delay which is a emulation on the original Echoplex made by Mike Battle than I would agree.
I find Odyssey a bit hard to program, I just can’t quite figure out how it works. Or rather, I keep forgetting about it. But it’s useful for the more noisy plucks and weird farts (not the literal ones).
TubeSynth, however, is in my opinion the most underrated synth in the lineup and I’m glad it’s included. I love the sound of its filter drive, and it can sound both dirty and clean. It’s great for basses, leads and just about anything in between. Maybe it could have had a few more interesting timbres like some alternative waveform morphs and a bit more flexibility around the LFO assignment, but I’m being greedy maybe.
IMO all the plugins are slightly odd for workflow but some, like Tubesynth, are closer to what you’d expect in most other synths.
Yes I feel the same way about Odyssey, but the first video by Jorb talked about that & gave some useful tips on how it works. I still think they should redesign the layout. At the end of the day it’s crazy to think that there’s a damn Arp Odyssey & Echoplex in a MPC/Force!
Yeah, the Odyssey is no doubt the mono synth in there that’s the most underrated. It can do quite a lot and it’s my go to for more gritty plucks and for the bread and butter pwm type of sounds. In a way it’s the synth that gets closest to the sound of the Syntakt to my ears.
May I ask where you got this from? I can’t find anything online about a MPC model number ACVR
The documents are here.
https://fccid.io/Y4O-ACVR
Could it be the long awaited never materialized MPC Mini some dude possibly made up for clicks?
All jokes aside, I really hope it’s a MPC Mini!!
Based on the label’s size, it seems to be relatively compact equipment 
