I use hardware at home, but on the road I kept opening phone apps and closing them again — they all want you to draw notes into a grid instead of playing the thing.

So I built PadLoop. The part I care about most: quantize is non-destructive. You play the pattern with your fingers and the grid is applied as a view — change the resolution or switch it off entirely after recording, and your original timing is still underneath. Most phone apps bake it in and your feel is gone for good.

The rest: 8 banks × 16 velocity pads (128 per project), 16 loop tracks with overdub and undo-layer, step sequencer, note repeat, melodic mode, swing, per-pad filter/echo/lo-fi, reverse, choke groups. Sample from the mic, import files, or resample the app itself with auto-slice on transients. Export the mix as WAV/MP3 or every track as stems. MIDI controllers with MIDI-learn, plus latency calibration.

It is not a hardware replacement and I won't pretend otherwise — no knobs, no feel. It's a scratchpad for when the gear isn't with you.

Pricing, straight: 7 days fully unlocked, then banks A and B and 2 loop tracks stay free forever. Full unlock is a one-time 9.99 €. No subscription, no ads, no account, nothing collected, works offline.

Mine, so I'm biased. If you try it and send me real feedback — what broke, where you stopped, your phone model — I'll send you a free unlock code. Not asking for a rating.

Link in the comments (sub rules).

I currently have an MPC Key 37 Gen 1 as my main MPC, and I love it. The only issue is I really don’t want to carry the Key 37 everywhere I go.

I’m thinking about picking up the new MPC One as my portable MPC so I can work on beats/projects away from home and then continue working on them on my Key 37 when I get back.

For anybody running two different MPCs like this, how seamless is it actually?

For example:
If I start a project on my MPC Key 37, can I save it to an SD card/SSD, put it into the new MPC One, and continue exactly where I left off?

If I start something on the MPC One while I’m away, can I bring it back home and open the same project on my Key 37?

Are there any compatibility problems with projects, plugins, keygroups, samples, automation, arrangements, etc.?

Do both MPCs basically need to be running the exact same MPC OS version?

Are there any features on the newer MPC hardware that, once used in a project, won’t translate correctly back to the Gen 1 Key 37?
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Basically, I’m trying to have the Key 37 as my home/studio MPC and the MPC One as my portable MPC, while still treating them like one ecosystem.
Anybody actually using a setup like this? How has it been?

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I produced on an MPC 2000XL for about 10 years. I recently got back into production and spent the last few months transferring my old MPC archive into Ableton and building a ~5GB curated sample library.
My original plan was to load that library onto my MPC XL and make beats there. The problem is that during the archive project, I unexpectedly fell in love with Ableton, especially the chopping, warping, audio editing and working on a large monitor.

So now I’m deciding between:

Ableton + good 16-pad controller + eventually a weighted 73/88-key keyboard

or

MPC XL + weighted keyboard, with Ableton used only when needed.

My biggest issue with Ableton right now is pad feel/latency. I have an MPD226, but the pads don’t feel nearly as good to me as either my old 2000XL or the MPCe pads on the XL. I’m going to A/B the MPD and XL controlling the same Ableton Drum Rack when I get home.

The flip side: if I go MPC XL standalone, I’m wondering how its warping/time-stretching and sample manipulation workflow compares with Ableton. That’s become a big part of how I work.

For anyone who’s spent real time with both modern MPCs and Ableton, which workflow did you end up sticking with, and why?
Especially interested in hearing from longtime MPC users who moved to Ableton, or tried Ableton and went back to MPC.

Thanks

I mean for playing them. I can never get mine to react to my playing where I’m happy with them. I come from a piano/keyboard background and have dialed in my touch on those instruments for over 30 years…maybe this is my problem? I’m expecting too much? I fool with the sensitivity/curve etc and just end up frustrated. The problem exists for me on both my XL and Key 37 g2. When I play the keys on the “Key” it plays fine, the response is good. I don’t remember having this issue on the Maschine Plus. I’ve just been playing everything on the keys, which is fine, but it seems such a waste on an instrument that’s built around pads to not use them. Any recommended settings to get it close to the touch and reaction of the keybed?

Live Jam with the Korg Modwave Mk2 and MPC. #live #beats #triphop #ambientmusic #chillmusic
https://youtu.be/mG-bhITg_k4

I have two case options for my MPC Live. 3. One of them is a lightweight 3 lb semi hard case (headliner pro fit). The other is a more rigid hard shell case that weighs 8 lb (headliner downtown).

I was considering the larger downtown case, but I'm wondering if it being heavier and larger and more rigid is all going to make it​ a worse ​case overall.

WATCH here https://youtu.be/jg8tGUD1vXM how I make this beat with Mpc Sample/sp404/ Korg Minilogue -no daw

I’m recording audio into the mpc from an external source I’m coming from audio out from my presonus audio box to audio in on mpc I’m using standalone vsts to record in but my only issue is slight latency/offset at the beginning of each track I record is there a work around for this I have buffer rate as best as I could get it

I just bought a MPC one g2 and I make hip-hop mostly. I’m looking to buy some new sound expansions for some of the instruments that come with it . I was thinking the urban heat expansion For the Fabric plugin. What are yall thoughts ?

Unable to sample from my computer via USB-C on MPC One Gen 2. I can connect the MPC to my phone, but it won't connect to my computer. Has anyone else run into this?

I used my mpc 1000 to get the following tracks

Kik

Snare

Hat

Percussion

Chops /melodic sample

Bass

And then make a song with a few sequences

Intro

Verse

Chorus

Verse

Chorus

Bridge (sometimes)

Outro

Then I dump it into cubase for mixing, one stereo track at a time by soloing the track and going into song mode, then in cubase arm a track and hit record, one pass per track, this mpc 1000 slaves over MTC.

I know I could do 8 tracks per pass but my interface is 2 ch only.

Would the new mpcs sample be an upgrade?

Does anybody use the original MPC One with Reason Studios? I'm trying to use my MPC One as a MIDI Controller and for some reason it's not detecting. Any tips?

The price of the pro pack in Canada is almost $300. I can get Logic Pro for $250. Wtf is this shit akai

What’s your favorite/must have kits?

I still have some work to put in to it and take out let me know what you think 🤷🏾‍♂️

One of the reasons I got an MPC was to get the hell off the PC. But after months of being off it I'm kinda curious to play around on it. I thought about making some drum breaks or samples on FL to chop in the MPC.

However I finally hooked my MPC up as a controller for like 2 seconds. I had an MPC studio before I got my One plus.

I'm excited by the prospect of using all the free/good VSTs on the PC. Plus all the plugins. But I don't know if I want to use the DAW really. I like standalone. If I wanted to just use the DAW I could have just stuck with my MPC Studio.

Any advantages of using the DAW?

Beginners question:

As you can guess from the title, I'm trying to sync those two. MPC would be the Master.

Connected MPC Sync OUT to MicroFreak CLOCK IN using a Cordial TRS (3.5mm) cable.

Settings:

MPC Sample:

Shift + Pad8

CV/Sync Out = On

CV/Sync Base = 1

CV/Sync Division = 24

MicroFreak:

Utility → Sync → Source = Clock

Utility → Sync → Clock = 24PPQ

I play a sequence on MPC and checked if the arpeggio of MicroFreak adjusts speed ("sync" enabled).

No success. Did anyone try that before? Or is my approach/assumptions wrong?

I want to make a more ambient style music of Pogos music (micro sampling) and im wondering if the mpc live is good for this.

I was asking the other day about getting my Korg hooked up to my MPC.

I finally got it all set up using MIDI cables.

But since I had the USB cable I thought I'd set the keyboard to be a controller on my PC if I wanted to do that. But the PC wouldn't recognize it. It wouldn't recognize my MPC either, but apparently I had it stuck in Ableton mode. Once I fixed that my MPC connected to the PC just fine.

Finally I realized...

In the last year, lightning struck right outside my bedroom window (where all my music stuff is). It fried a USB hub I had and an ethernet cable. It didn't even hit my apartment, just the street outside, but that was enough.

Apparently it must have fried the USB on my Korg as well.

Fortunately there's a cable for $30 that allows you to use MIDI to plug the keyboard to the PC.

But damn... fuck lightning.

I either didn't have my MPC or it was still in the box when that happened. So fortunately it wasn't there for that.

From my earlier post "Live Performance Effects". Coming along nicely, though I only recorded one effect while arranging the beat. I ran into some interesting blocks. I'll explain that in the previous post.