nice thread!
Do you need to re-purchase it for every upgrade/new firmware version to get the latest MPC Bible version? Or are future updates included in the one-time purchase?
I purchased mine in 2018 and still get email regarding free updates for new firmware upgrades. Itās quite impressive!
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Songbird are now promoting their 20V PD cable as being āperfectly safeā for the MPC One/Live 2 (19V/3.42A). Has anyone here given it a try? No official from Akai about their tolarence levels for their circuitry so it feels a bit risky to feed it with 20V, but Dieter at Songbird seems sure itās safe. š¤· Pretty tempted as this would solve my only real gripe with the MPC.
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EDIT: Ignore this post.
From what I have read those specs are correct for an MPC One.
Akai changed the power supply on the One+ to take 12V/3A.
I just went through checking all of this because I was trying to track down a spare power supply for my One+.
Of course, as with anything powerbank or power supply related, be careful!
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The MPC One wants 19V, this is 20V, so not sure what you mean with ācorrectā.
Yes, the One+ wants 12V but thatās not what this advert is about.
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Thanks (you and everyone) for the help !
Random question, is it possible to set the keyboard to AZERTY ?
Update, I got this response from Dieter at Songbird:
Hi David,
thanks for your message! I didnāt get a statement by Akai. Since our correspondence 2 years ago I received customer feedback about this and also read about other 20V solutions in forums. Combined with my hardware design experience I conclude it is perfectly safe.
All the best,
Dieter
I guess Iāll order one. 
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Dieterās birdcords have worked immaculately for me, no matter where Iāve employed them (I have one for my OT mk2, one for my DT, one for my Roland MV-1, one for my SP404mk2, one for the Maschine+ and one for my Aeros Loop Studio).
I use the USB-C PD ones, very convenient and function well with any powerbank that supports PD on USB-C
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Still on Logic. The rest is gone.
Iāve realised the MPC isnāt a one box solution at all. The onboard instruments bring very little to the show for me, if youāre picky about your source material.
As a consequence, Iāve now completely thrown out all ideas of trying to use the MPC instruments and gone all in on sampling. And rather than trying to bend the MPC to my workflow, Iāve dropped all resistance and instead thinking - what if I used my stuff in the MPC way instead?
So Iāve now sampled phrases and shit from Logic all morning, picked some drums from a blankfor.ms sample pack I bought awhile ago, and gone into Dilla mode.
No idea how this is gonna turn out. But now that Iām getting into the sampling part only, I certainly get why the MPC is popular. I havenāt read a single line in the manual and damn, this thingās workflow in sampling is lightning fast. I guess it helps Iāve got some experience with the Tempest, cause I can feel the Linn print all over this part of the MPC now.
I know it sounds silly, but going back to a sampler-only version of the MPC would sort of make sense. It does this part so much better than the rest of it. Iām not really a phrase and slice kind of musician, and yet Iām getting results that arenāt awful in a fairly short amount of time.
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Damn, I thought I was pickyā¦ you must be vastly superior to everyone here who rates them then, right? 
If youāre using blankforms samples youāre not going into Dilla modeā¦ strange attitude to bring here overall tbh.
Unless Iāve misunderstood you initiallyā¦?
Nothing like a bit of straight up honesty ))
āDilla modeā meaning straight up beat/sample juggling i imagineā¦.
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Everyoneās tastes are different, and no one can claim to be correct for anyone other than themselves. The best sounding sources and equipment in the world wonāt make a bad song idea good, yada yadaā¦
Again, I would never be so foolish to think any single box is all I would need, including my laptop box with Ableton and bitwig and logic and thousands of dollars of plugins and source material. But that just me, and only right for me.
Iāve heard tons of junk made with bad equipment, tons of diamonds made with consumer crap.
So keep feeding that sampler some samples that pass your own quality test, make some key groups, there are no excuses or anything holding anyone back from creating great music if you have a modern MPC and a laptop.
Keep going @circuitghost you are our only hope.
Edit - I also get sounds every bit as quality out my MpC and Force as my physical synths, my VST computer powered super synths, etc.
I have probably 20-30 solid hardware and software tools to impart a lower fidelity feel to things, and the Air Flava-Flav Pro is up there with all of them. Itās different than them all, and it may not be for everyoneās tastes but not everyoneās taste is what I call good. In other words, one person or a hundred calling something bad doesnāt make it a reality.
Akai stems standalone is being universally bashed for being crap - itās turning out to be a Godsend for my music yielding the results I want.
Thatās why I always ignore everyone and just try things for myself and use what I like.
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There are some real fx gems there. I just discovered the Air Spectral effect yesterday, and it was instant Autechre.
Damnā¦ even the OP1 / TX6 / TP7 / Chase Bliss ??
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Didnāt he have an SSL mixer as well?
That seems like a never sell, take to your grave kinda thing.
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Frankly Iām with you as far as the onboard synths go, I donāt like them and I never have since the get go, theyre okay as placeholders until I move over to my desktop rig but I get youā¦ uninspiring at bestā¦ probs an unpopular opinionā¦
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Exactly.
No. I just donāt like them.
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And a Fusion.
Look, Iām here to entertain, not make sense, and you canāt argue I donāt bring a show 
Yes @brucegill all gone.
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