Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

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Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By Masi Fri Jul 17, 2026 10:22 am
The original + got Wifi (anything else?). For the gen2 I'd like to see MPCe pads.

I understand that the MPC One is meant to be entry level. OTOH the lack of the MPCe pads seriouly cripples the compatibilty with newer sample packes (and synths?).
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Re: Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By MPC-Tutor Fri Jul 17, 2026 10:36 am
I'm not sure it's going to be that useful on such small pads though, and currently implementation of MPCe in Akai's own products is virtually non-existent. I think step 1 is to make MPCe available in keygroups and plugins, until that happens it still feels a little gimmicky, especially as Akai don't appear to be releasing anything that actually supports MPCe. I don't see any of their expansions mention MPCe in the descriptions, do you know of any that have utilised it?

I've added it to a couple of my own expansions, it's a lot of extra work though and still somewhat guesswork as to how people want to see it implemented.

Re: Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By B-Wise Fri Jul 17, 2026 10:38 am
Masi wrote:The original + got Wifi (anything else?). For the gen2 I'd like to see MPCe pads.

I understand that the MPC One is meant to be entry level. OTOH the lack of the MPCe pads seriouly cripples the compatibilty with newer sample packes (and synths?).

If they was gonna do that they would've done it. The One+ was basically the some body as the OG One, so the G2 One+ would need to be bigger to fix the MPCe pads. They could do that, but I see them making a MPCe MIDI controller first, as that would cover more users.
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Re: Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By Lampdog Fri Jul 17, 2026 12:01 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:I'm not sure it's going to be that useful on such small pads though….

Re: Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By Masi Fri Jul 17, 2026 4:23 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:I'm not sure it's going to be that useful on such small pads though

I was not aware that the pads are smaller in comparison. But I have gear with much smaller physical controls so I wouldn't mind :)

MPC-Tutor wrote:currently implementation of MPCe in Akai's own products is virtually non-existent. I think step 1 is to make MPCe available in keygroups and plugins, until that happens it still feels a little gimmicky, especially as Akai don't appear to be releasing anything that actually supports MPCe. I don't see any of their expansions mention MPCe in the descriptions, do you know of any that have utilised it?

I don't follow Akai's expansion releases. And you astonish me by telling that Akai doesn't push the new feature.

Odd.

Re: Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By J.O.BEATS Fri Jul 17, 2026 4:41 pm
I still haven’t seen anybody use the new pads in ways that actually benefit music production or performance in ways that wasn’t possible before.

To me the mpc kind of hit a wall on features and they had to come up with something new to justify new units.


Why do you need these pads on an mpc one?
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Re: Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By Lampdog Fri Jul 17, 2026 8:23 pm
JethroJethro wrote:X Mini?

What, no.

Everything else is ALREADY a mini X/XL Think about that.
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Re: Should Akai make a MPC One gen2 +?

By MPC-Tutor Fri Jul 17, 2026 9:22 pm
Masi wrote:I don't follow Akai's expansion releases. And you astonish me by telling that Akai doesn't push the new feature.
Odd.


I'm not sure they have 'anything' that specifically targets their own latest features, other than one demo expansion for oscillators and one for MPCe pads. None of their commercial stuff has anything beyond basic DRUM tracks and older style keygroups as far I can can see. Honestly I don't own any of them so perhaps they do have something and they just don't advertise it, but their latest one (Progressive Techno) specifically states 'MPC2 ready drum kits'! There's no mention of mod matrix, advanced keygroup, oscillators, mpce etc anywhere on the product descriptions.
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