althemusicwizard wrote:I'm trying to find out if there is a setting where the drum programs I have in a project can be assigned solely to the pads and the keyboard solely to keyboard programs. Anyone know if this is possible?
The MPC Key is a MPC with an adhoc keyboard, nothing more. Until AKAI allows one to split the pads and the keyboard into 2 separate channels, or something like that, you can't do that obvious thing any other workstation from any other manufacturer would easily do with a simple button press. It's just baffling.
The idea is good, but AKAI didn't even bother thinking about how workstations are used live... Same for the Fabric plugins vs keygroup programs, the plugins have very annoying limitations, wouldn't it have been smarter to use the keygroup engine directly, or at least an improved version of it that isn't a plugin so that people could load as many Fabric programs as they wish without having to load another project on stage?
How much thinking went into the design of that device? Not a lot...
