Been getting a few crashes daily, mostly when copying from a clip to arrangement. So just learning to save a LOT atm.
Finished my first track that i fully arranged on the MPC, mostly using the arranger. Didnt think id like this workflow as much as i do. Had to challenge myself to finish the whole arrangement and not give up. But i found it really enjoyable adding in little moments that otherwise i wouldn’t bother with in a daw, which is down to integration of the hardware with Live 3. Then the joy of tracking it all out to logic, all i had to do was clean up the mix and do some light edits.
What i would love to see in the erase menu is a way to erase events across multiple tracks at same time. That would save a lot of repetitive steps in the arranger. E.g. in erase tracks menu, you use the pads to pick which tracks to erase, almost similar to mutes. Press do it and it will erase that selection in the arranger region selected.
Also a more intuitive way to set arranger loops on live 3, e.g. shift + locate button.
And finally, noticed the region selector in the arranger snaps nicely to a bar, but in clip mode it doesnt seemt to snap. Maybe im just missing a setting, but would be good to define how the region selector snaps in both views.
Other than that absolutely loving the MPC Live 3, Akai knocked it out the park.
I’ve been getting many crashes on Force 3.6 & your not the first person to have this problem with 3.6. Send a bug report to Akai:Submit a ticket : Akai Professional
The Arranger is cool to bring all the track together but I wouldn’t want to build up the song in there. I build everything in the clip-matrix with rows & use the new Follow Actions to seq the order of the rows & then record it to the arranger with no automation. Make a copy of this seq & add automation & other edit to the copied seq(s).
You mentioned some great ideas. Deleting across track would be very efficient. I would like the List Editor to filter by Note/Pad#, convert the whole arrangement to a Row of clips & convert a selected section of rows to the Arrangement (1 trick to speeding up this process is boosting up tempo, but this may not always work).
This weeks Bad Gear gone good from a guy who admitted he never liked MPC workflow. There just isn’t a world where Akai didn’t knock [III] clean out of the park.
Anyone got a chart with the pads and their respective midi notes? Kind of annoying trying to find the right note to trigger whatever pad you want when using an external sequencer !!!I know you can edit that but would be better to just have the chart and look up the corresponding note name handy
I hope it exists and someone has it and can share it here
Lol, the only negative he can say is that its ugly
True, it doesnt deserve the beauty price. But there are more uglier devices out there. Looking at rolands green color scheme.
For drums? Depends on if it’s an old expansion or new, afaik as I know the old style kits load in the old school general midi note set, I think all the newer ones are just chromatic starting at c1 going upwards…
If you’re talking about melodic stuff surely it’s as simple as tapping pad perform to expose the notes that are on the currently selected scale and pad bank…
set to Chromatic and it’s mapped sequentially by note value. but also, depending on your external sequencer (Hapax has a two octave difference in what it deems C-1 versus most other gear for example), i find it more efficient to just do the mapping that i want starting all the way down at C -2 and save it as a template for all future projects
I remember someone (a bit of a jerk, honestly, hate the guy) up thread (most likely on the part 3 of the thread) did some testing on his live 2, noting how much cpu each instance took idle and during playback.
Thanks yeah for drums. I made a bunch of kits using kit maker a while back. I had to open the mpc desktop software v2 to view the chart (took screenshots of it to have it at hand next time I need to find the note to a specific pad to sequence from my DT.
just out of curiosity I put the delay pro before the reverb pro and I got a cpu-spike when hitting play … just two instances and a short burst around 51% … after that it did go back to some reasonable value … seems like the OS is optimizing constantly
He just loves elektron workflow (looked in his comments on YT). Dust? Then he should vacuum clean his studio more i dont have that issue. Maybe its workflow is not for everyone. I dig it, since 3.0. Before that it was a hot mess for me. Let see what akai will do with the X and the other variants after collecting the feedback. My buddies want the live 3, but all sold out here.
He didn’t even say that at all. What he actually said was “limitless sound….is held together by the traditionally and often times archaic workflow”. Users know this is an ignorant take considering 3.6 isn’t traditional or archaic at all but who lets facts get in the way of an opinion?lol
So, if you take away that last negative part which was obviously wrong due to his ignorance of the new workflows possible on [III] in 3.6, you have a really positive video.
I posted here because I know that MPC users would know the part about the workflow being “archaic” was laughable considering Clip Matrix is quite literally the modern standard music production workflow (Ableton, Logic, etc).
Sorry if I got the wording wrong, it was a while since I watched it.
It was his opinion from testing 100s of bits of gear and I was correcting the other poster who claimed there was only one negative,… that it was ugly.
He’s entitled to his opinions though if he finds the workflow at times archaic. Most people that use other gear besides just MPCs would agree with that.
No apologies necessary. I thought it was a great video. Just pointing out that he obviously contradicted himself. He literally showed off the seq which is brand new. If you have brand new buttons per function, DJ God Mode, crossfader, touch strip for performance workflows, new clip matrix that brings MpC 3.6 into the present and future how would you also then have the opinion that the workflow is traditional or archaic unless you aren’t aware of what you’re saying or don’t agree with the definitions of those words? Many “traditional” MPC users are still whining about MPC new path to DAW. It’s clearly an ignorant take is all I’m saying.
I have zero issues with people believing whatever they like and I wouldnt try to sell anyone a new MpC. By the look of sales, Akai doesn’t need help on that score.
I’m just clarifying info because facts matter. MPC 3.6 and [III] is factually not traditional MPC workflow or archaic if much of it has never been available together on anything else yet. I don’t expect anyone but [III] users to know that though. Yes, you can still do traditional things but anyone with an open mind that’s spent any time with the new device on 3.6 knows it isn’t traditional or archaic.
i dont have that issue. Maybe its workflow is not for everyone. I dig it, since 3.0. Before that it was a hot mess for me. Let see what akai will do with the X and the other variants after collecting the feedback. My buddies want the live 3, but all sold out here.