finally
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Have you ever tried to get stems on another stem ripper?
Itās not like Akai invented this technology.
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I was mildly interested in the concept in general at first, went on a cursory search of whatās available but lost interest until the possibility of trying it out on an mpcā¦ I can wait 
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Kaiju trucker hats killin it.
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Dude I want that hat. Where did you get it ?
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AKAIJU 
PS some thoughts on the keys 37
Some plugins just are meant to be played with keys and not pads. Layout is greatā¦ mod wheels and keyboard action is a chefs kiss IMO. Itās nearly identical in size to an SH101 which i thought was really cool.
The plugin registration bug is still there, gotta wait a day before it syncs with your akai account.
knobs buttons main encoder feels great. Iām very satisfied, would recommend this thing to any non-mpc user as a first device as even if you dont mess with the MPC workflow, the plugin synths are worth the price alone especially with the tight keyboard integration
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Hopefully, the next version of the Live incorporates a tilt screen. Still using Live mk1 and itās the only thing Iād change on it.
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Interesting.
Yesterday my MPC Live 2 arrived and I was playing around with it a little bit. I thought itād be nice if it had a tilted screen.
The result of this video would make it perfect.
Yeah I saw that on reddit. Since the screen is the same size of the Force I wonder if itāll work for it. It looks nicer than the screen mod the dude who made that MockbaMod 101 video I just posted. Nice find. The dude who this for the MPC is gonna be rich. I suggested he get in touch with MPC-Stuff.com & hopefully they can some what mass produce it, if he canāt for whatever reason.
i wonder how much if any it gets in the way of using the Q-links
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The shortcuts are good once you get used to them.
But the MPC defaults to offering to save projects to the internal storage-which is obviously not really big enough (and problem free) to do the job. Akai must know this-I think they added the shortcuts in an update to help mitigate.
What we would like Akai, is to have an user defined default saving place-for both projects and user-made plug-ins presets. I am normally saving projects and would always like to save them to my fabby SDD (where Akai were fully on the ball with a design choice).
This would save me, having to check the internal storage ever so often to find the poor, lost, orphan projects getting in the way of the oh-so-important system files on the tiny internal storage. I then take my shepherd`s staff and shoo them back to the big empty field of my project folder on my 500gb ssd drive.
I was considering paring down my setup by getting the mpc key 37 and selling gear that overlaps with it (digitakt, sp404). Is this a bad idea? The onboard synth engines, sampling, and keys/pads really make me want to pull the trigger but Iām worried the workflow wouldnāt be as fluid as Iām used to on Elektron sequencers
The MPC renders the 404 redundant, but technically not the Digitakt.
That said, if you only need one sampler, theyāve all got you covered.
If I could have only one, it would be an MPC or an Octatrack.
And yes, the Elektron sequencer stands alone.
Cheers!
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honestly youāll probably regret it imo youāre gonna sell all your stuff to make up the cost, use it for a few months, the resale is gonna absolutely tank and then it will be a bitch to sell because all the akai stuff is the same parts jumbled round into different shapes. The MPCs are great at being what they are but they are pretty ugly coming from sleeker devices like elektrons. rather than getting rid of all your stuff seriously consider just waiting a little and saving up for a used mpc one. Thereās one selling near me for Ā£350. Itās not worth trading all your stuff for essentially that with a slapped on mini midi keyboard unless youāre certain thatās what youāre gonna stick with
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Itās tricky as they all have unique strengths.
I love the āvastnessā of the MPC-it does everything, is incredibly deep and has a great work flow-though occasionally it feels bloated and I think step sequencing is a weakness.
The digitakt is not as ācompleteā as the MPC, but is a much more powerful and versatile sequencer, certainly if step sequencing is your thing. It also had more sequencing tools (deeper probability, trig conditions, per step trigs etc)
Then there is the SP404- itās the most immediate of the 3, super quick to sample things into and also has the FX which are great for resampling on the fly or even processing external audio. Whilst the MPC has the ability to make most of the same sounds, it wonāt get there as fast.
So in short you either need all 3, or decide which features are most important to you. Itās still something I am really struggling with! (I have an MPC one plus, SP404mk2, OP1 field, and RC505mk2-couple of things have to go, but canāt decide on what!)
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Just went to a guitar centre to try out an MPC one plus. Really enjoyed it. Couldnāt wrap my head around the whole interfaceāa lot has changed since I had an MPC2000xl some years ago. But it was still easy enough to bang on some pads and get a sequence going across a couple tracks. Loved it!
One thing that was strange and Iām not sure if it was user error, a known bug, or a faulty deviceā¦ but I rotated a few a link knobs and a little menu pops out from the side and then goes back in, but at some point the menu stayed stuck and the rest of the screen was useless (I presume it forces some invisible overlay when the menu is out). The person in the store didnāt know either. Picture belowā¦
Does anyone know why that happened?
You can turn off the pop-up Q links side menus in preferences (which most users do first thing out of the box)
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Are you talking about the capacitive state of the Q link knobs that brings up the virtual on screen knobs when you touch one of them? I think I find that kind of useful.
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Iāve had this happen a couple times since I bought my one. Restarting fixes it
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