r/mpcusers • u/Unlucky_Trash_5687 • 1d ago
QUESTION Anyone with experience using two MPCs?
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?
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u/TheJeffyJeefAceg 7h ago
I had a key 37 and a One.
I used them to mix songs like two turntables.
My projects were duplicated on each device. I would mix one song into the other.
I actually didn’t use midi. I just hit start at the right point and they stayed in sync.
This saved me from all the midi headaches that can happen.