Do you use the stock samples/kits?

If not, where do you get your sounds from?

Are any of the (paid) official expansion packs different sounding from the stock ones? The ones I've heard feel a bit too polished, cheesy even.

What about the unofficial expansion packs? (like from mpc-samples.com)

Maybe I am looking for something more natural sounding. I know Splice is an option, I have made a free account and am having a look on there at the moment.

Bonus question... when I load a kit it auto populates onto the pads, but if I load another one it doesn't - even if I press pad bank B before loading it. Is there a way that the second kit you load will auto populate on a new bank of pads?

Thanks

All our kits at MPC-Samples are very different to the Akai ones. Feel free to download our free demo expansions to see where we are coming from.

You cannot load a kit to a 'bank', you load/assign a kit to a track. A DRUM program (kit) can contain up to 128 pads of sounds and you can assign your sounds to any of those pads. Pads 17 to 32 represent bank B in any DRUM program.

If you want to create a program with a different kit on each bank you will have to build it that way. You could load up multiple kits and use COPY PADS to create a separate 'multi-kit' program, as COPY PADS has the option to copy an entire bank to another program. COPY PADS is found in MAIN > pencil icon (program row)

However the more usual way to work in the MPC is to load up each kit as a separate DRUM program and just assign each kit to its own track. Check out the MPC Bible for more in depth examples of MPC workflow

Yes I absolutely do use the internal sounds they are an amazing cache of highquality tones. I like to gank samples off rekkids and sample various devices.

The wonderful thing about the mpc is it has so much you can literally design sounds with it, you dont require any kits or wave forms to make it make noise just elbow grease.

The 4 internal synths are enough to generate nearely anything you want. You can then save your presets or "bounce to sample" then create a keygroup from your bounced sample.

Also you can use "autosample" a neat feature of the MPC sampler that lets you trigger and capture each note from external devices such as a pc or modular synth. It automates the creation of the keygroup.

There is also a method for subtractive synthesis which opens up the door to all sorts of neat tones.

I am not gonna try to sell you shit, or convince you to download anything I can only say this. Learn to sample you will unlock the true meaning and potential of the MPC.