New MPC Touch user questions

Hi there! This is my first time posting in these forums. I tend to ask a lot of questions but I also do my best to answer my own questions and definitely help when I am able.

I'm a (hopefully) former Maschine and Ableton Push user so I'm still getting used to the workflow. So far the MPC Touch is a tad bit confusing, as any new piece of kit usually is. However, I can tell that once I can cross the T's and dot the I's I should feel right at home and finally once and for all get rid of my other hardware/software hybrids that have proven to be time and time again to not to be conducive to my workflow.

I have two questions mostly that relate to figuring out how to use the MPC Touch and it's software in a way that I'm used to. It's cool if I can't do them currenty, I can find ways to adjust.

1. Is there anyway from the hardware to switch between different instances of the MPC VST running in my DAW?

2. Is there anyway to recreate the "Ultimate Drum Racks" or "128s" workflow from Ableton into the MPC Touch? So that I can quickly scroll through different hits from one of the q-link knobs. I know there's a way to do something similar and scroll through different hits through the pads but I find that knobs work easier for me.

Thanks =)

1. You can only have one instance of the MPC software.
If your talking about plugins you can switch them from the main screen.

2. You can load all your sounds to memory. You don't have to assign them.
You can scroll the sounds from the "samples" in the program edit with the corresponding Q link knob. There are 4 layers per pad, each one of those knobs will scroll sounds in that page.

Good luck.

dustymaestro wrote:1. You can only have one instance of the MPC software.
If your talking about plugins you can switch them from the main screen.

MPC Essentials supports that feature, but only uses a single track. You can get it via your Akai account.

dustymaestro wrote:2. You can load all your sounds to memory. You don't have to assign them.
You can scroll the sounds from the "samples" in the program edit with the corresponding Q link knob. There are 4 layers per pad, each one of those knobs will scroll sounds in that page.

Good luck.

You'll have to add all samples to your session and it'll be stored in the corresponding folder. You might read up on the "purge" function, since this might use up quite some hard disk space.

83dude wrote:

dustymaestro wrote:1. You can only have one instance of the MPC software.
If your talking about plugins you can switch them from the main screen.

MPC Essentials supports that feature, but only uses a single track. You can get it via your Akai account.

dustymaestro wrote:2. You can load all your sounds to memory. You don't have to assign them.
You can scroll the sounds from the "samples" in the program edit with the corresponding Q link knob. There are 4 layers per pad, each one of those knobs will scroll sounds in that page.

Good luck.

You'll have to add all samples to your session and it'll be stored in the corresponding folder. You might read up on the "purge" function, since this might use up quite some hard disk space.

I'm responding to a question, he asked if he can switch from the Touch hardware.

The MPC essentials I had was a wav library. If your talking about the MPC elements software, we all didn't get that.

He asked about changing sounds with the knobs. That's a good tip though, maybe you should have directed it towards the guy asking the question.

Deez?