Just our of curiosity, but where can you buy the pack für € 80,00 
? At the MPCStore I get them “offered” für € 119,00.
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Akai rewarded 30% off code to users who participated in a survey. I’m not sure the link/survey is still active but I think it was @Poetic-Noise who shared it upthread somewhere
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Ah, OK. I took part in the servey some time ago, but never got any further news on the subjekt.
How unfortunate. € 80,00 would have been a good price, € 119,00 I don’t know, if I willing to pay.
Does anyone know a good tutorial for loop mode on the Sample? I found one on Akais page but I can’t find it again. Basically my loop points don’t seem to work the way I want. I had this working in the past but can’t figure out what I did.
If press loop it does loop the entire clip but I want to do smaller loops inside it.
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Despite all the sympathy you might have for the presets, €120 is probably not worth it. If you’ve read the entire discussion, you’ll have realized that these are three very similar plugins that can be reproduced in other ways. The survey is now over; they sent a 30% discount via email, and it’s a never-ending discount. If you search a bit, you might find it sooner or later.
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Yeap $28 each was good. Premium sample packs can cost a lot more than that and aren’t nearly as flexible. They’ll be available for even less than that in the coming days. Summer sale or whatever other theme.
Akai knows they aren’t worth full price which is why they frequently discount all of their expansions and plugins.
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That’s going away until further notice.
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will see what happens when i take it out the box
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Haha. Now you see why I feel that at $399, Sample is pound for pound the best MPC value available right now.
Don’t get me wrong, I do love L3/XL alot but there’s def a list of things not fully fleshed out yet like MPCe plugin implementation that are missing and fairly criticized. It’s just not a huge issue for me because I’ve never been a big MPE guy and for now I’m content with the overall upgrade to the pads and its quadrant uses on samples/expression/pad fx duty.
I love all the other new stuff, power boost, seq, perf fx etc a lot more than I miss the stuff missing.
My biggest gripe of all with the big new units is that with all this additional power I’d like to have more fx slots. Def have the juice for it.
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Sticky or not, at least see if you vibe with the workflow! Also make sure it’s up to date so you get the new OS.
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It’s the best MPC but only the second best SP.
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Heads up folks the Sample seems to be available from Amazon in the UK right now from the Akai store at the normal price. Not sure how long for but some units must have slipped into stock.
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delivery date is next month mate.
Thank you for your reply.
I very much liked what I saw and heard so far.
As already written, for now I am not willing to pay €119,00 for the pack. Should they, sometime in the future, sell it for € 80,00 I would be in, but I will not be going on the search for a discount code.
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Weird I’m sure it said next day available maybe I misread something, stand down folks
Forgive if a dumb question - I’m not a current MPC line-up owner and haven’t been for a while.
The new plugins have an MPE tab and one of the videos I watched glossed over it, just saying that they didn’t have an MPE controller attached but that if you did you could assign the usual sources to destinations.
Does the new MPC OS actually allow MPE editing on the midi tracks? I believe the new MPC-e pads don’t send MPE, rather they are solely for the Akai OS specific modulation (pad effects, articulation etc etc).
Can anyone please clarify?
Maybe, but I have been stalking that link for a refresh constantly.
will do - tuesday arrival - weds return…unless unless…
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Counting for inflation pretty sure I paid way more for the JV Vintage Synths expansion card for my Roland JV-80 back in the day than these Fabric plug-ins cost.
L3 might be my favorite “synth” right now and I don’t mind paying a little to add some extra flavor.
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Which are the must have plugins for an MPC?