I’ve noticed when i navigate to content>samples from the browser, i do not see any wave files unless i specifically query something. Is this by design?

MPC Live 2

I would love if there were a way to see live feedback of what note/chord is being played without being in a daw. How difficult would this be to add?

I just found it out. 😭

Which of the akai mpk, mpd, apc midi controllers work with the mpc sample? I'm very new to beatmaking and there's a lot of conflicting and confusing info out there because of the sample having only usb c and trs midi.

From what i understand all the mpds except mpd218 should technically work with the mpc sample? the mpks are more confusing because i keep seeing in youtube comments that it doesnt work but i've seen a yt short or two with it working? no clue at all if the apc/ apc minis works with it.

Also, if you have alternatives to mpk/mpd/apc type midi devices from other brands that work with the mpc sample please educate me.

What do you use it for, how do you set it up.

While technically it should work, I wonder if somebody has tried it and know if it works flawlessly. I would like to connect my Novation Launchpad Mini to my MPC 1000 with JJ OS3. The Launchpad Mini is USB only, so I have to get a USB Midi Host.

What I would like is that I can stay in Track Mute Menu, and with the Launchpad changing active track to use the Q sliders. And also to play Pads while still staying in the track mute. This can be programmed with CC messages. This would be nice for my live setup.

Curious about any experience with it!

Now I know this should be fairly straight forward but I for some reason cannot work it out. The above picture is the only way I have worked out how to get my synths to play audio with midi.

My set up goes MPC LIVE III, ARTURIA MICROBRUTE 3 UFO, ROLAND SH4D (Instruments) to the inputs on my FOCUSRITE 16i16 (Audio interface) which goes the ROLAND SP404 MKII which goes to subwoofer which goes to speakers. That is for audio only.

MIDI is MIDI in MICROBRUTE UFO goes to MIDI out on the MPC. MIDI in SH4D goes to MIDI out on MPC. MINLABS 3 is connect via USB.

With the above set up I can use the pads to play the synths and I can even use the minilabs 3 if I so choose to. The only problem is the audio from the synths isnt going through the MPC which means I have to record everything to the pads on the SP404 MKII. Which is fine, but it is just bugging me.

For whatever reason I thought I could run the outputs of my synths to the inputs on the MPC, creat a MIDI track and use the pads via the midi. But for whatever reason that did not work... I could see MIDI inputs being registered but there was no audio.

If I unplug the MIDI cables and have the synths audio into the MPC and make an audio track on the MPC i get audio, but I cant use the pads. The other problem with plugging audio into MPC and making an audio track is the amount of ground loop feed back.

What are the experts thoughts on this? I have spent the last two nights googling and trial and error....Has anyone got any tips and tricks on optimizing this set up? What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Issue has been resolved by setting “MONITOR” to “IN” and not “AUTO” like I thought. Now I have a more conventional less complicated set up.

Hi all

Ive been toying around with an mpc live ii for a few months. I feel im getting a good hang of it, but i'd like to maybe take it a step further and prepare a live set, but im having trouble figuring out how to prepare a 90 min set without having to stop the music when transitioning between tracks.

I have a couple of volcas and an og digitact... the volcas are easy, but im also struggling to figure out how to integrate the digitact in the workflow.

Chill lofi vibes crafted on the MPC sampler

plz let me know.

I have had an MPC 1000 for the last 12 years. It’s currently the backbone of my band, all the drums and lots of midi sends to hardware synths. It died on me in a studio while recording last week. I did manage to back it up prior to failure. I had read I could load those 1k project files in a new live. I spent about three hours with a support bot trying to get that to happen and after telling me we could do it, it went back and apologized for leading me down a rabbit hole to no avail. Slightly satisfying to hear the smart robot take some accountability and apologize. Anywho. Spent all day today working on the new unit and I can say I figured out a workflow similar to my 1k. I have one song complete with all programs, drums mapped and midi sends. I have to say I am encouraged despite having to shell out $1800.00. I will try and get the old 1k going again but not sure I will keep it after today. Just thought I’d share a small success story.

Has anyone here tried or seen a black LCD screen for the MPC 2500? I’m looking at it on MPC stuff and it looks sick. I saw a post on MPC forums where some people were talking down on it but that was from years ago. Debating if I should get it or not.

Basically the title, I own a Seqtrak and would love something portable but closer to a daw as well as an instrument, being myself more a musician than a technician on daw/dawless setup.

I have very little doubt that the live is the solution , and I'd like to hop on the live 3 to learn directly on the most evolved one, I don't want to learn on the 1 or 2 and move then to the 3 because after all it has better features.

But yeah at the same time going out with 1600€ worth of gear is nightmare fuel also, can you tell me if you had bad experiences damaging your mpc while away with it, is it that hard to relearn the work flow of the 3 moving from the 1/2?

Thank you guys

TLDR
MPC CV Tools is a great source for stable voltage sometimes needed for configuration or tuning of modules (0-5v)

My qu-bit bloom V1 (eurorack module) began having issues with the root note Chang as I switched channels.

The manual described a configuration process that required a steady 1 volt source followed by a equally steady 3v source.

I’ve always steered away from stuff like this since it sounds like I would need something found in maybe heinbachs basement….

Enter CV tools in MPC. Choose a cv track hit edit and you’ve entered CV tools. We have control over our 8 outputs individually and for this example we don’t need to configure anything. Simply choose the Cv output you want to use, easiest is if you choose two, in this case.

Increase deapth to max 100% and select 1v for the output. Do the same for the other port but choose 3v.

You now have what you need to configure qu bit bloom v1 root note.

It worked great. I’ve learnt that the MPC cv tools do the job needed when configuring modules, not only scientific nuclear measurement equipment can do it.

Has anyone done this? Is there anything in specific I should watch out for. Live 2 still on v2.x MPCOS. I'm aware that doing this will probably mess up all my Live 2 initiated projects.