“Modernizing the Akai MPC 4000 in Studio One

Nice Post. Very smart method to track out quickly and easily.

Love seeing these older machines get their shine in a "modern setting."

Mike Boogie wrote: ... Love seeing these older machines get their shine in a "modern setting."

1st of all the MPC4000 is a very good midi controller, wide range and interesting (or call it „inspiring“ ) velocity response.
4 separate midi channels with the option to add a 2nd channel for simultaneous output.

I‘m in the fortunate position to have the Adat Expansion (connected to a system with 6 Adat IOs) which mainly acts as a router to/from 4 different DAWs, including fx plugins and the respective monitor signal(s).

The most modern a MacMini M1, the most vintage is Pro Tools 5 TDM on a PowerMac G4.
But my personal favorite is a virtual Adat app, running on the „router“ PC, which simply tracks groups of 8 audio channels, similar to the days of the Alesis BRC.

While the 4000 could as well be the audio centre of the system, imho it‘s just too time consuming to set it up (and operate it) that way.
But it’s a valuable controller and provider for source material.

nice, i love the secondary MIDI out (from 1 track) or to a second program (!) , also the Simultaneous Play function

which (SW) ADAT router do you use?

i'm using a Ferrofish A16 with 4 ADAT ins & 4 ADAT outs that pipe through MADI to my PC, where RMEs Total MIX takes care of all the (inter) mixing

thanks, it‘s the most stable setup I experienced.

wavejockey wrote:...
which (SW) ADAT router do you use?
i'm using a Ferrofish A16 with 4 ADAT ins & 4 ADAT outs ...

then we‘re somewhat close, at least regarding heritage of gear.
My Adat routing is done on a Creamware Scope system, 3 cards of 6 DSPs with 2 Adat IOs each. The CEO of Ferrofish was a hardware designer for Creamware before.
The virtual Adat (VDAT) is part of the Scope software and fully supports (as a unique feature) the original Alesis BRC hardware remote controller.
Due to the dedicated DSPs the Scope system is almost latency free, an Adat roundtrip is done in 0.5 ms.
Of course host latency is added if (f.e) the MacMini (Bidule) processes the signal, but tracking with VDAT doesn‘t add anything. That‘s why I still love Scope, which is of equal age as the MPC4K.