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 sheepbop Mon May 30, 2022 5:23 pm
I have an MPC Live and a PreSonus class-compliant USB2.0 interface, Audiobox 1818VSL. This has ADAT and SPDIF digital connections. I can connect to e.g. my MOTU828 over ADAT fine, inputs and outputs. Just as long as the MOTU is set to receive digital clock *from* ADAT, i.e. the MPC is the master.

However, I'd like to set the MPC as clock slave. The reason I want to do this: I want to connect devices with SPDIF outputs, and many of these devices don't have a setting to be clock slave. They assume they are clock master.

Has anyone successfully connected SPDIF outputs to an interface connected to the MPC Live? (Any interface) I get sound, but weird artifacts which I am assuming are clock-related.

Or shall I go to the wishlist thread? :) Perhaps 2.11 will have a setting.