That’s always been My workflow so I never noticed the change
For me the biggest changes are the mixer view (doh) and the record to pad. Sampling was fast before, it’s even faster now.
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You’re taking a while!
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Happy birthday bro, enjoy your akai gift! 
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Mixer view is great.
Fast access to FX Sends also great.
Insert FX reordering is awesome.
Arranger view, so far I like it… Also pretty easy to bounce a sequence to audio and have it there on the timeline.
"If multiple tracks were assigned to the same program in MPC2, MPC3 will create one primary track of the same type as the program, and subsequent tracks will be converted to MIDI tracks with their Send To field pointing to the primary track. "
Haven’t found this Sent To field yet… Any hint?
From main, make sure the midi track is selected, open up the track’s strip/inspector to the left hand of the screen (so it takes up 1/3rd of the screen and has a fader, next to the little master track one) and then there are tabs for routing and stuff in there.
It’s the workaround for working the old way if you want multiple different ‘tracks’ pointing to the same ‘program’ as well.
It’s kinda annoying because I’m not sure that the names/language for these parts has been formalised so it’s a bit hard to describe sometimes.
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Unfortunately I can confirm that the midi note off bug is NOT fixed.
I used my Keystep Pro to replicate the bug (long press on the track to get access to the input midi port/channel). Arp on midi channel 14 cuts off a sustained pad on midi channel 15.
Can’t say I’m surprised, but still a bit disappointed.
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the overall interface-design is very streamlined towards a pure touch-centered approach
but i like to have a mouse-option 
What’s the bug?
In MPC3, multi-track audio recording is possible (with disk streaming). Additionally, a new option lets you export from the looper to an audio track, allowing you to place quantized audio directly into the sequence.
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Thank you!
It’s also in the mixer if you go to the I/O tab.
After doing another hour last night I like the feel overall, it seems a bit more responsive and that counts for a hell of a lot.
But someone who understands the arranger thing better than I do might explain what it’s supposed to do? I feel like I must be missing something here … but you can’t really do any edits from within the arranger pages without brining up the grid? Also, the arranger is per sequence rather than per project, so really it’s pushing you towards doing your whole song from start to finish in one sequence, making either sequences or the arranger pretty much obsolete depending on whether you go with the flow and do everything in one or stick with doing a bunch of different sequences?
I should really rtfm a bit more, but right now I really don’t get it. I do like how they’ve implemented the locators though, can see that being useful for live performance, although nothing Next Sequence didn’t already do just fine. But presumably there’s a lot of development still needed on this feature.
Incoming Note Off messages are sent to all channels on a midi port instead of just the channel they are supposed to be sent to. It makes MPCs unreliable (or even unusable) when controlled with external sequencers.
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oh great tnks, i’ll dig out a dusty box and try it, tnks again!
To me, the arranger is really just a flexible and more visually sensible way that I was (and kinda continue) to use the MPC in the sense that I will make a bunch of sequences, use song mode to arrange the blocks and then press the export song to a new sequence button meaning that I’ll have a single long sequence which I can then edit as a whole at a glance. It makes dropping a bass drum before a ‘chorus’ or whatever a bit more visually identifiable, especially if you use the locators/section markers.
It took me a while to find out but once placed, you can edit your markers by pressing the bars and beats area at the top of the screen.
So basically as nice as the arranger is, it doesn’t really do anything it didn’t previously, it’s just a more cohesive visualisation (in my opinion) and I don’t actually use it all that much (but it is pretty to look at). Other folk’s mileage will almost definitely vary though.
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Probably why most people don’t know this bug, I never thought of controlling my MPC with an external sequencer! I guess there are use cases, I just cant think of any I would use personally.
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Thanks - pretty much how I understood it as well, was wondering if I was missing something. Basically not much that song to sequence didn’t already do. I guess they must have plans to build on this with more direct editing in the arrangement view, otherwise I really don’t see the point of the arrangement tab on the main sequence page in particular.
It’s also a great way to access any track from one single page.
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I experienced this one myself last night, sequencing from the DT. I now understand the pain 
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If you prefer a DAW like linear timeline, you’d only have 1 sequence. In fact you can just pretend sequences don’t even exist. You’d simply think of sequence 1 as your whole song and just build in the arranger view. In that case, it’s very different than before. You’d create all the tracks you need and then make all your changes, drops, builds, chorus/verse, etc in arranger view via sequence 1. If you want to work in sequences, then yes, it’s similar to before but without the program confusion to deal with and a different view.
I’ll personally be using a single sequence from here on out and I’ll be making my changes in the arranger view.
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