Support and discussion for all of Akai’s modern standalone MPCs including the MPC X / X SE, MPC Live 1, 2 & 3, MPC One / One+, MPC Key 37/61.
By machinesworking Thu Aug 20, 2026 2:57 am
I recently purchased Oblivion from Heavyocity, a Kontakt drum library for Mac/PC.
There's nothing like this on the MPC, and it's not the same autosampling them, it would be great to have it native now. This seems doable now that Akai and NI are both owned by InMusic. They already did some Kontakt PLAY instruments for the MPC, but I would really like to see Oblivion and other Heavyocity libraries native.

I did email Heavyocity a year or so ago about it, anyone else interested in doing so as well? or some other heavy MPC native suggestions?
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By MPC-Tutor Thu Aug 20, 2026 6:30 am
If there's enough interest I could look into developing something similar to this, although I suspect interest within MPC spheres is relatively limited (in terms of both genre and pricing). The fact that it's a Kontakt instrument isn't really relevant as the NI Play stuff is not a port of Kontakt itself, it's just the a bunch single layer multisamples played back in Akai's generic rompler engine. Is it the sounds themselves or are there specific features of the plugin that you would like to see ported to the MPC?
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By personM Thu Aug 20, 2026 8:02 am
just had a listen and yeah, this thing sounds awesome. like reFX nexus did back in the day. i suspect, the first 100 tracks made by users will differ, from then on all will sound somehow the same.
in this video, the guy walks trough his compo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFleTua9Xkk
it seems, he used external samples loaded into the plugin. he mentions the lyra-8 for example.
the drums are fx´ed samples too.
so it´s a hybrid of things. relying heavily on the fx-chains.

if you ask me, any lightweight lookalike for the mpc would be lame. and i would use a hybrid approach (computer<->mpc) for such projects - so no hollow, stripped down thingies have to be involved.