chrisroland wrote:EnochLight wrote:Well, as of MPC 2.11.8 (and Force 3.2.3), the Roland MX-1 works GREAT as an audio interface. Just set your MX-1 to 44.1 Khz and put it in External Mixing Mode, and you'll get access to all 18 channels. You can also sync the MX-1's effects. NICE!!!
how does that map across the MX-1's channels, since it also only has one stereo out and the channels are a mix of mono/stereo audio, digital I/O, and the weird AIRA-only USB inputs? where do the MPC's 18 channels ultimately get routed to in MX-1?
You can route the channels however you want, but a typical setup are routed as follows:
MX-1 Channel 1+2 (either linked or separate) = MPC/Force channel 1+2
MX-1 Channel 3+4 (either linked or separate) = MPC/Force channel 3+4
MX-1 Channel 5/6 = MPC/Force channel 5+6
MX-1 Channel Digital = MPC/Force channel 7+8
MX-1 Channel USB1 = MPC/Force channel 9+10
MX-1 Channel USB2 = MPC/Force channel 11+12
MX-1 Channel USB3 = MPC/Force channel 13+14
MX-1 Channel USB4 = MPC/Force channel 15+16
MX-1 Channel PC = MPC/Force channel 17+18 **
** You also use channel 17+18 to record any live performance effects that you perform on your MX-1, as none of the other channels will record those back to the Force.
chrisroland wrote:do we think Akai is going to break this functionality in future updates? i'm good with picking up an MX-1 as my submixer for MPC but wary of something off the books staying in place permanently
I mean, we can think or speculate all we want, but I have no idea. As with anything, there is always a chance that an update can bunk up audio interface support, but as we just saw with the latest firmwares, these have all largely been fixed (well, many anyway). Besides, updating is always an option - you can just remain on the existing firmware that last worked, so... there's
that.