Air Reverb has a lot of weird metallic resonances but I actually don’t mind the other stock ones
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It’s just ok to me
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I agree. It’s not the greatest reverb I’ve ever heard but I think it’s sufficient for a standalone device.
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What made you rollback ?
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MPC Beta 3 changed something to where when I record my loops into an Audio track, it now over compensates for the latency so much the audio is off. In v2, it correctly guessed the latency and locked my beats in perfectly.
Also, the Beta 3 didn’t detect the BPM of my loops on the Sample Edit page. I had to manually detect the BPM. No problem. But on the second screen, it wouldn’t adjust the pitch to Match the BPM of my project. This is a bug.
That’s how I like to use the MPC and those bugs outweighed some of the good things of the new version.
All good though. MPC 2 works perfectly! It’s still an MPC 
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I dare you to proof that MPC 2 did better timing correction on latency. In my experience it‘s roughly an equal amount of samples that get‘s added to the clip start parameter between those two versions.
Looking for some advice, MPC beta testers…
I’ve got a Live II, but I never loved the MPC workflow. In contrast, the workflow on the Akai Force really gelled with me. As a consequence my MPC has been sitting lonely on the shelf of neglected gear… 
From what I’ve read, it seems like the MPC 3 workflow is a lot more like the Force. Is that true?
Is the beta now in good enough shape that I’m likely to enjoy the experience or should I keep waiting for another few iterations before dipping my toes in the water?
Have you tried Maschine? Sounds to me like that could be your ideal option; apart from having to maybe buy/sell.
Maschine sits in between the MPC approach and the Clip (Force) approach.
Unfortunately I’ve been burned by Native Instruments dropping support for gear. I’ve pledged to myself to never buying anything from them again… 
Not looking to buy anything new really. Just trying to decide whether the new MPC is likely to be compelling enough that I should keep my Live II or sell it on at this point.
I had signed up for it-but no email!
I went on the MPC site today for the sales. There was multiband filterbank at £99 and click-on, there was a sign up link to get a voucher to get it for free. Enter email and details-got the voucher about 5 minutes later.
Maybe the email would have come later in the weekend-but I was starting to curse Akai, so I am glad I checked.
Effect looks and sounds good, after a quick play.
Dead useful and clear full spectrum display!
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I’d be pretty happy with a standalone version of the Jura reverb. Sounds a lot smoother and less metallic than the Air Reverb IMO.
I recommend you try 3.0 and if you don’t like it, sell your Live.
The reason being is that MPC version 2.0 is the “classic” MPC workflow and if you didn’t gel with that version then the classic MPC workflow might not be for you (which is totally ok).
3.0 has introduced some new ways to do old things that you might like.
Try it and see if out works for you.
The Elektron reverb is for it’s lofi-character very good in comparison… the basic Akai reverbs are somewhat usefully but the parameters like density and early reflections don’t do that much … I checked it out at mix 100%, hardly any movement
but in combination with the Delay Pro, Air Reverb placed right after the delay can do some miracle
also the multi-chorus or the lofi-plugin (mix <5%-15%) after the AIR verb can change its sometimes hard/unreal or metallic character
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Just to ask a question about Motherducker - I’m trying to get it to trigger with a ghost kick, but I cannot work out how to do it.
Can anyone help?
Put the motherducker source on the ghost kick insert and make sure the same bus is set in both source and motherducker
I can’t make it work. This is what I’m doing
- place a kick in a program
- Motherducker input as an insert on that kick, not the program - set to Bus 1
- drop the volume of the kick
- put Motherducker on a program’s insert, like a synth.
But Motherducker needs the kick volume to operate. I’ve tried to make it work with a midi note but that won’t do it either.
Use another effect after the source to mute? Or what if you mute the program? There’s ways to work it out. 
it will (should) work if you place anther effect after that will just cut out the signal after the motherducker source…
I hope Akai abandons Mother Ducker at some point and creates a proper side chain compression paradigm.
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Yeah I agree… could do with something more professional…
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