akai mpd 18-32-26 what is the real difference??

note repeat and swing on the MPDs are USELESS

i like the 32 the best because of its note repeat laid out more like an mpc... with reason and the NNXt sampler it's pretty close to an mpc in my opinion. specially with reason 5 out..

Tohtruck wrote:In the case of the MPD's the Swing feature is a component of the Note Repeat.

So, you add swing to the midi notes that are spit out when Note Repeat is active. So swing only applies to when you are using note repeat.

Have no idea what the exact practicality of that feature is. I suppose you can add swing to hi-hats if you like to use the Note Repeat to sequence your hi-hats.

It's because the MPC Note Repeat works that way.
Without it the Note Repeat would work like the Roland MV's Roll function and fire like a machine gun instead of MPC snare rolls.

Not sure why you have sync problems with the MPD but the MPK when set to a incoming clock using the right swing/gate setting gives the same results as the MPC for Note Repeat.