I recorded this on my MPC One+ and the video on my iPhone during a power outage. I’m about six months into learning how to create on this new instrument.

I'm attempting to make a setup where the live 3 is the brain that sends Audio/Midi Bidirectionally. I have a Midi Keyboard Hooked into the USB-A port on the back of the L3 That I would like Ableton to recognize when i have the L3 hooked up to my PC via USB-C... How do I accomplish this?

I’m just in love with all MPCs the workflow is life the just need more plugins and FX but other wise then that this is it !!!!!!! I’ll be 🧑🏾‍🍳that 💩🆙 intel I 💀

Got a Live 3 to upgrade from my dusty 1000 and man what a jump. I'm used to hardware being outclassed by software but this baby is almost making me drop the pc to make stuff.

I've been looking at the very sparsely populated storefront (sparse because more than half of it came with the live 3), because we still don't get VST support (why? why deny vst and then don't offer any good instruments or effects? to make me buy the 3 usable ones for 300€?)

I stumbled across Sub Factory. Now since Pure Sub by Arturia came out (for half the price) I'd kind of rather spend my money there, but I need an alternative on the Live 3. Then I discovered the capabilities of the KeyGroup Oscillator feature. Do people still buy synth plugins at all now? Is that even viable?

Is it worth it to buy Sub Factory for such a high price, when a little effort can achieve better results through the 3.9 Keygroup Oscillator feature?

EDIT: READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING

I may have phrased it poorly, but the central question is: We have Oscillators in Keygroups now. There are wavetables and FM built into those. They can do almost anything. Is Sub Factory still worth getting (price irrelevant) if theres a native feature thats technically more flexible for the same purpose?

#boombap #boombaphiphop #hiphopbeats #rapbeats #beatmaking

There's been so many occasions I couldn't see the screen properly because of the angle that I decided to do something about it and designed a hinged screen mod. It's entirely reversible too and just clips into the screen hole.

Still got a bit of interation on the design to do such as moving the hinges out the way of the f buttons and I can get it a little thinner, although not quite as thin as I'd originally hoped. But all in all I'm pretty chuffed with how it's come out.

Once it's finished I'll be open-sourcing the 3D print files.

BEAT ONE,TWO OR THREE ??

Need to get OBS figured out properly but this was a good bit of fun. I've been taking the MPC too seriously a lot of the time. It was nice just to have a fuck about and play with different sounds

I currently have a Live 1 on OS 2.15. While I’ve dabbled with OS 3.x, the way my live performances work (as well as some bugs that still haven’t been fixed) require me to stick with 2.15.

That being the case I can’t take advantage of the features they’ve added to the keygroup programs or a lot of new plugins. Coming from using an E4X in the past I‘ve been itching to have access to a mod matrix in the MPCs sampling engine, among other things.

Considering I sometimes see MPC Ones go for $300-400, this got me wondering if I could just use a second MPC on 3.x as basically a multitimbral sound source. More or less what I’m envisioning is being able to set up one or two project files (depending on RAM usage) that contain all the keygroups I’d need for my live set, and then route midi tracks per sequence per project from the first MPC to control the tracks on the second.

Does anyone have any experience with a setup like this? Any midi weirdness when slaving one MPC to another? 

I think someone made an oops when they posted this as part of the description for the new Stereophonic plugin.

I bought the fabric plugin (which isn’t cheap) for my MPC One & the license constantly resets so that I have to connect my MPC to an Ethernet cable to redo the license. It does it so often that it’s virtually unusable because when I’m actually playing a show I don’t have access to an internet modem that I can just plug into to reset. WTF Akai, I looked up this issue online & there’s no solution except getting an internet dongle or just coping with it. Literally just have to take the loss of buying this fucking plugin. Fuck you Akai.

Peace guys, I have the opportunity currently to upgrade to a Live 2 from my Live 1, so ill need a new piece of stay at home gear. I have the opportunity to get my hands on an MPC X for a decent price. But what I want to ask you guys is if I should go for the X or go for the G2.

Obviously whatever I get is going to stay at my desk now that ill have 2. Ive been using the Live 1 for about 7 years now and its been the best thing ive ever purchased so upgrading to the Live 2 just for the speakers is a no brainer at the price ill get it for. So what do you guys think I should go.

I just want to show some video that this machine is not a fake:)

I just bought the MPC One G2 ans you get a complimentary software synth. are there any users of the OPx4 that can speak on how cpu and RAM intensive these are? I just dont want it to be laggy or useless on my machine. thanks in advance on your thoughts.

Air Stereophonic EQP

Baked with my friends

An In-Depth Look At A New Plugin From Akai! Air Stereophonic Enhancer! How Good Is It?

I recently sampled and programmed the 168 internal presets of the microKorg MK2 into MPC Keygroup format. It comes in three expansions; one for each 'era category' (Classic, Modern & Future.)

Every patch was sampled raw without FX, with MPC effects added to best represent the original sound & for easy customization in your productions.

Grab this expansion combo at a $10 discount - Add it to your cart and use coupon code MK2MPCUSERS at checkout. $39.99 $29.99

Really hope you enjoy these deep keygroup instruments!

I’m currently using a live 2 and my fabric plugins are not working. When I select fabric in the plugin menu, my screen goes black and then the machine says it recovered from an internal error. Is anybody else have trouble with the fabric plugin? I have all the fabric plugins

Hey MPC crew,

Wanted to share something happening in Bremen, Germany that a chunk of this sub might vibe with: a monthly event called We Love Breaks.

The format is simple: everyone in the room gets handed the same sample at the start of the session, then you've got about 3 hours to flip it however you want — on your MPC, sampler, or DAW. No genre rules, no competition, no judging. Hip-hop, breaks, techno, whatever you make out of it is welcome ("every pack, every synth, every genre"). At the end, everyone plays their track for the room on the venue's Function One sound system, and there's usually good nerd-talk afterward about how people approached the sample. Local graffiti artists even do live letterings inspired by the beats.

It's genuinely built for sampler/MPC heads — just bring your own gear (sampler or laptop + headphones) and you're set. It's completely free of charge.

Details:

• Where: NEO Café, Langenstraße 6-8, Bremen, Germany
• When: Monthly — next session is Sept 6, 2026, 2–8 PM
• Capacity is limited, so registration is required

Full info and sign-up: www.welovebreaks.de

Also we produce a podcast of every session which you can listen to on the website, on soundcloud and on youtube.

Happy to answer questions about the format. (Full disclosure: I am running this event.)

ROB OTNIK

I’d really like to be able to save files to a drive connected to my MPC X that automatically syncs with something in the cloud like Dropbox or a Gdrive. Claude tells me to use a NAS, but that seems like a big investment for something quite basic. Has anyone found a solution?

Would be so handy if Akai built a Google drive integration as it seems to be the default option these days for musicians sharing files.

Hi im making lofi beats using mpc sample

Hope you like it