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.
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By elstebbano Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:01 am
Hi,
I am a MIDI noob. Normally I find informations on the internet myself, but I dont get it right now.
I want to connect my ipad to the mpc and create programs with Auto sample.
I connect the iPad with usb on the mpc and put the usb in the camera connection Kit on the ipad, but the iPad is not dicoverable under midi/sync in the mpc Preferences.
There are many other Settings in the preferences midi menu, do i have to Check Something there?

As I understood correctly in the lautest firmware, midi is sendable via usb, at least it looks like that in the firmware Feature video from akai.

Sorry for maybe asking to be spoonfed in this issue but i dont get ist right now^^
Thank you
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By elstebbano Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:54 am
so it should work with a usb to lightning cable plugged in the usb a port on the mpc, then?

I want to bulk create a lot of auto sample programs with the ipad synths, bluetooth is not an option when all those created programs are not supertight and have to be delay/lag compensated for the bluetooth midi delay/lag..
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By MPC-Tutor Sun Jun 07, 2020 10:26 am
No one has got it working via USB to my knowledge, I've tried it, others have also, it has to be either with USB-MIDI convertor or bluetooth.

I don't see what the problem is with bluetooth, MIDI latency is negligible, and regardless wouldn't be an issue with autosampling any way. If you're concerned that there might be dead space at the start of each sample, select 'auto trim'.