Darn it. I boxed it all up. Now gotta take it back out!
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Bro, youâre fab! You got this! 
(hint: read the posts just below the one you replied to)
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You shouldnât be judging the MPC based on a beta OS. You should stick with 2.15 or early for now.
For sure, I just think itâs kinda pointless commenting on stuff that isnât going to change which is really whatâs bothering me most - I can accept that the mutes thing is likely to get fixed, but this stuff is baked in. And especially commenting after coming up for air from a session ⌠I tend to have many thoughts.
But seeing as Iâm here, I hit another one later yesterday afternoon - when I get a loop going Iâll often bounce into a DAW and add parts, like above I think thereâs the start of something in the drums/perc, bass and chords not so much. So bounced, went into Bitwig and recorded a modular jam. From there I like to chop the few hundred bars into 4 or 8 bar chunks to make it a bit more manageable then chop on transients and work up from there - much better experience to lay it out on pads/keys than trying to work it out with the scissors tool on the screen.
Where before I could have a few tracks and swap programs in and out, now Iâd need to create 30+ Drum Tracks. Even Logic now does a much better job on this, there I can swap out the sample in a quick Sampler so basically can have one track with my 30+ sections available and use track alternatives to work up my chops and ideas.
I guess for some/most people the change to unified tracks is no big deal or even a positive, but for me every time I turn a corner I find another way that itâs worse. Really not much point in saying too much more about it though, theyâve obviously chosen their path on this much at least. Also found it kinda funny how you canât just save a program from the program editor or main screen, it took me at least 10 minutes to figure out how to do it, someone else mentioned this so I guess it wasnât just me being dense - clearly it didnât occur to them that this would be something some users would want to do routinely.
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I canât wait for the new MPCs to come out, like to see what Akai will push. No doubt they double down on the touch screen which I still dislike. But I like to see more knobs, more ram, a more responsive touch screen as the current one is dog shit.
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Ok, just to get things straightâŚ
If the MPC is expanded with an audio interface, I can have 8 simultaneous inputs as audiotracks, like some sort of mixing desk
and
if I expand it in the preferences to 32 I/O, I can then have more than eight audiotracks?
No, you can always only have 8 audio tracks.
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Would be enough for me
It is just a different way of thinking to even out the pros and consâŚevery tracks has kit, 8 banks- 128 drums/samples to choose from (thatâs quite a lot), need more- just duplicate the track and and you have 128 moreâŚits very easy to swap drum pads or samples on pads, I donât think it will slow people downâŚits just different.
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I donât understand the âwe want a mini MPCâ part. Isnât the MPC Live as mini as it gets?
Given that the screen is more important than ever before why would anyone want a smaller screen?
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I donât want a mini, but if your only going to be using it for certain things like sampling & sample chopping/editing & program building the screen size isnât that important. They could use the same screen from the the older MPCs & also leave out the touch screen feature. But someone that want a mini may have other reasons why they want it.
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The people who want a âMPC Miniâ probably donât know what they want. They just like the idea of a âMPC Miniâ. i.e. itâs just forum talk.
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Quick targeted question for the heads, totally unrelated to 3.0 
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Is it possible to have a Sequence that is less than 1 bar, or is that the minimum? I just need a beat or two of silence here and there but would prefer not have it as part of a longer Sequence.
Thank you!
Whatâs changed in 3.0 about tracks?
For anyone familiar with the Elektron Analog RytmâŚwould an MPC 3.0 translation to the Rytm be like removing its Kits function and making it operate more like a Syntakt/Digitakt?
In MPC2, you can set the time signature to 1/4 or 2/4, letting you create 1-beat or 2-beat sequences.
Thank you @Elijah and @Noisebuddy
I tried changing the length there, Noisebuddy, but it does not carry over to Song Mode. I think that slot is just for playback of that particular track, whereas the length if the Sequence is given above where you have highlighted.
Elijah, I will try the time signature idea - I am on 3.4, but surely I should be able to change the time signature of a Sequence (knowing full well that time signatures are a loaded issue right now, it seems).
I hope time signatures will be implemented in MPC3 
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