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 AurumRhythm Sun Jan 19, 2025 2:23 am
Hello community! I’m new here and go by Aurum Rhythm Music. My apologies if this has already been said in the past. I currently own a MPC X SE.

I’m looking at upgrading my stock hard drive to an internal SSD hard drive. I’m wondering if installing the MPC OS is an easy task to do or if it is just more worth it to buy an external SSD. I will eventually be buying more instruments and expansions for the X as time goes on. I just have a stock system in place right now.

I currently save all of my projects/expansions on my external SD card so I know I won’t lose that information, but will I be able to easily install the OS and continue on form where I left off? Is it worth it to just buy an external SSD as opposed to to internal? Thank you for your time and advice. Much love to y’all!!

Aurum Rhythm Music.
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By Lampdog Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:01 am
I installed an ssd in my mpc x and mpc key61.
It’s THE SAME as your sd card. I formatted the ssd as EXFAT, put them in my machines and
they came up in the browse window, not an issue.

MPC controller mode will show the mpc’s new ssd in pc’s explorer, mac’s finder, just like your sd card. Use the same folder structure you use on sd card. Folder management from there.