using mpc live with midi mixer possible?

I want to play the mpc studio live and would like to do a bit more tham muting unmuting tracks as a performance.

is there anyway i can seperate different samples on my pads to a midi mixer? in order to control say volume and eqs etc live for individual pads? i was looking at the Kawai MM16 not sure if it would work thou. even if it did looks like i could only control volume. q links arent so great on the studio plus i have big fingers and have difficulty moving one qlink without touching the one next to it.

if not i guess i have these options:
1. get a ren and use the qlinks. costly plus only able to adjust one parameter per pad.
2.get an mpc 2500 or thereabouts. also costly but at least i could have 8 channels to play with on an external mixer (which id need to buy).
3.get a roland tr8 (seeing as first 5 plus tracks on my sequences are usually taken up by 909 samples) that way at least my drums will be highly tweakable. anyone had experience syncing it to the studio?


appreciate any suggestions. thanks!

Not possible .(using midi external devices with mpc soft to control anything other than basic note input and keyboad perfomance based stuff) There's no way to map external midi controllers or to use them as a control surface...
You could look into this... purchase a mixer that supports usb/computer routing like this Kmix by keith mcmillen ... or if you already have a audio interface with multi outs(like 8 channels output) you could just buy a analog mixer with faders and use it to sum/creatively mix live..
Otherwise it's purchasing your other original options....

also forgot to mention that you could use it with a daw....
Load the mpc software as plugin... route the virtual outputs to seperate channels in your daw..... assign what pads you want controlling to your daw to those virtual outs.... Assign your midi controller to control volume of the daw faders....
So in theory workaround you can....

thanks for the info. k mix looks cool but not really feeling it. think the DAW thing will probably kill prob my cpu (dual core) even if it doesn't i won't be able to sequence etc like in the mp. so looks like i'm getting a drum machine- kinda weird thou cuz that's what i bought the mp for in the first place.

if you have a windows computer, reaper has rearoute, which allows you to route stand alone applications into reapers tracks as if they were traditional physical inputs... .. So reaper becomes like a physical mixer.... Mpc software runs as normal, meaning you have mpc as host transport control... This is how i pretty much work... Here's the thread about getting it to work..
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=173318

Then get your midi controller to adjust track faders in reaper(the ones which are rearoute inputs) Once you figure out the actions in reaper and how to learn them, you can then save your thing as a template...

sounds good. too bad i have a mac thou..