So I’ve done this a couple times, on MPC 2 and MPC 3. I have a post about my process last month in this thread.
You start by rolling through each track and saving the programs and track content (as either midi or MPC pattern files) for each of your songs, and then load it all into one big project.
You don’t need to render stuff to audio, although I did resample my plugins for simplicity.
Did akai break vintage mode in 3.5? Doesn’t seem to do anything now unless I slap the plugin on the outputs, but I’d rather not give up the slot.
3.5 has been buggy. Upgraded to use new plugins. So far, wasn’t worth it. Is what it is. I know better than to expect stability in a new update. Won’t do that again.
Before OS 3.5 I had maybe one crash. On OS 3.5 I can almost reproduce a crash, but I haven’t gone back to “prove” it. On 4-5 separate occasions I have made a kit by importing samples, assign them, played a bit with kit, hopped around the OS, maybe written a beat, then had a hard crash when opening Mute Mode.
Maybe at some point I can sit down to see if I can produce it, but who has time for that…
Maybe that’s why your rig took a tumble a couple weeks back. 3.5 making the knees weak 
Almost too soon.lol. Yesterday I had really bad screen flickering on Live 2 for the first time. Thought it was a goner. Left it on and it went away after warming up for 10 minutes. Hopefully isn’t things to come as I see this is also pretty frequently reported after updates, bad peripheral connection etc.
Woke up to a new expansion. Heatmaker drums are some of my fav and I see you can now download expansions right to your sd without exporting from the desktop client. Still clumsier than it needs to be but better than it was.
How do you do that?
When you download one of the newer expansions you should see a drop down arrow in the thumbnail in the Inmusic manager. That is the standalone folder you can drag into your expansion folder on your mpc sd.
Oh… I didn’t have a mpc sd that is my main storage because I use the internal SSD on my mpc, so I don’t think I can do this without connecting my mpc to the computer still… since you can’t copy and paste files in the mpc.
I have an SSD in mine and just run a USB cable to it - if you put it in “computer mode” and don’t run the software you just get a mountable drive on your computer where you can drop in files, back stuff up etc.
I’m feeling like a real jerk for passing on a couple of X SE’s a few months ago thinking something new was imminent. Real pie in the face goofy head looking back at me in the mirror right now.smh. At one point there were two close by going for $1100 and I lunched.
It would have broke in the gear avalanche anyways!
Don’t sweat the small stuff!
Indeed. 
Andy Mac with a banger. Last quarter shows two tight hacks. SP style performance fx on master mapped to QLinks and how to map loop bracket in arranger mode to Qlink.
I sold my mint condition live 2 retro for a ridiculous price… I really was in a bad spot… I hate it though.
I still have the SE though thankfully.
I finally got the MPC3 Software connected to the MPC Live mk1.
This software is a bit messy … I would not call it a beta, it’s more at the alpha-stage
for example, the vintage-filter is missing
How do we know it’s not coming? Just curious if I missed a statement
It’s coming
Akai is the apple of beatmachines, there will always be new MPCs and Macbooks