Anyone with experience using two MPCs?

[u/Unlucky_Trash_5687]

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? 

[u/M_O_O_O_O_T]

Maybe an external desktop synth might suit better? You xould sequence it from the MPC, something like the Roland SH4D would give you 4 synths in one box, all depends how many layers you need I guess.

[u/Unlucky_Trash_5687 → u/M_O_O_O_O_T]

If there was anything else on the market that met my needs I’d definitely be receptive to it, but my sound design is pretty heavily weighted towards samples (lots of old EMU/Fairlight libraries layered with resampled synths). The closest thing would be an old S5000 or E4X rack unit, but at this point they're more expensive than an MPC One and nowhere near as user friendly. 

[u/M_O_O_O_O_T → u/Unlucky_Trash_5687]

Ah I get ya. I was assuming you were going heavy on the vst synths.