MPC Thread : MPC Live - MPC X - MPC One (Part 4)

You will not be underwhelmed.

Great price for all three.

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The thing is,there so much onboard to experiment with its def gonna be overkill.But very tempting )))

idk about Flavor Pro as I am not interested in LoFi, but heartily recommend the other two. Jura is great for bread & butter sounds and imho especially nice for bass, Delay Pro excels are long washes and feedback tails, and the way it auto-clears the buffer is very helpful for complex material. You can download trial versions that work for 10 days, I suggest you do that and test them out.

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all your MPCs belong to us :smiling_imp:

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the plugins that come with mpc, can download the vst versions and use on PC ?

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Yes

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i downloaded them but they require serial number to use in daw, dont think you can

You can. You need to be signed in into your inmusic account on the inmusic software thing you install on your computer. From there you get to download all your plugins.

Edit: not sure how it is with plugins you got included with your mpc. I imagine you get a license for their vst version but can’t confirm. Download the inmusic software and sign in with the same account you got with your mpc live 3. there’s a tab there showing you your plugins. If there are none that means you get no access to the vst version for those you got included with your live 3. I’d be surprised if that were to be the case, though

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@DanJamesAUS e @Phillip It’s not always enough to open the Inmusic app. Go to the website, log in to your account, and in the ā€œProductsā€ section, you’ll find the serial numbers. I think you can also see them from the MPC, but I don’t remember right now. After you’ve found the serial numbers, open the app. There’s a section where you can manually add these serial numbers, and then you can download the plugins and decide whether or not to keep them activated on your PC.

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Some of the plugins that come with the MPC, such as Odyssey and Hype, don’t include a VST license.

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It’s a shame can’t just move midi clips about in arrangement view it’s all just 1 large midi clip as fast as I can tell?

Think best way is to make clips and copy to arrangement as it’s still not easy to edit with touch screen a large midi clip

This is my biggest wish. Would make arranging a breeze. Chop, move, reverse clip, etc. But who knows it will come. It is a bit basic doable with setting the locator. But its just not as fluid.

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Think making clips and placing them to arrangement on the selected bar is easiest way currently to arrange after couple days trying to arrange a track

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Best way for me is creating the rough arrangement on the clip matrix using follow actions, then record to arrangement to make finer adjustments there.

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I was never fond of follow actions in ableton for making songs like a mini song mode, but whatever way works for you. I’m happy just making clips and coping to arrangements and putting them on bar whatever, only thing I have to go back and forth a bit to remember the bar to put it on but works well enough… I was trying to copy and pasted from arrangement screen and that was a nightmare.

I never use follow actions on ableton live. It is a great way to work on the mpc. Highly recommended!

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That’s the best way, imo. I call matrix sketches the ā€œpre-arrangementā€. Now with the Follow Actions you don’t have to record to arranger. You can resample live & still record automations. I still rec to the arranger, but I can go longer without doing so, letting me tweak the pre-arrangement so by time I rec it to the arranger, there’s no need to edit anything. I mainly use the Seqs to store snapshots of the pre-arrangement.

Some feature requests that would be very helpful is a ā€œConvert Row to Aarrangerā€ & ā€œConvert Arranger to Rowā€, not just one clip at a time.

Edited: Fixed my ghetto-ass grammar.

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think the dude had something to prove to his wife; ā€œYes I really do need all seven!ā€

Commit and bounce your midi to an audio track. Makes arranging way easier and faster. Plus, you can do things with audio you can’t with midi.

Check out this YouTube. Some good ideas to build off of. I like this guy’s videos - actual useful stuff

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Hard to believe this isn’t on Akai’s radar, I find messing around with a bunch of raw midi notes in arranger to become an absolute nightmare if I’m not jotting down a bunch of bar ranges in a notebook.

I’ve been working old school up to this point: sequences, which get ordered up in song mode, and eventually converted to one sequence where I do some final touches in the arranger.