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 CFM01 Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:22 pm
As far as I know the US got the first batch of MPC Live's off the boat from China, Europe, then the rest of the world. Most gremlims seem software based, not hardware - only if there has been a batch of MPC live screens exploding in ones face - but I've not heard this! So it would only be recalled if there was some known hardware failure - software would be a handled via an upgrade.
By Noizgotbeats Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:43 pm
I've had a couple of glitches here and there. However, I love the machine for it is... A sampler! I put an SSD in there and dragged all of my MP3s from my music collection as well as my hand full of favorite kits. It's a great machine for drafting ideas. At the end of the day, it ends up in my DAW to be finished where my workflow is already sufficient. That is all.
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By MPC-Tutor Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:29 am
Following up on this, I noticed the FCC site now has all the MPC X internal photos up and the X appears to be running the same RADX Rock2 board as the Live.

This is a 1.6 ghz processor, however it 'supports dynamic cpu frequency' so can run up to 1.8ghz:

http://wiki.radxa.com/Rabian

Rock2 square supports dynamic cpu frequency. The cpu can run as low as 126Mhz and as high as 1.8Ghz depends on the task load. This saves power. If you want to let the cpu ran at 1.8Ghz all the time. Run echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor


So, assuming nothing has changed internally since the FCC submissions strictly speaking they appear to be running a 1.6ghz processor that is being overclocked to 1.8 (possibly only when required?).


BeatWilson wrote:I also heard that the CPU GHZ could of been changing from a 1.6GHZ to a 1.8GHZ. I remember seeing someone say that they noticed it got changed on there website so. Also I've heard they have re-worded some of there packaging because of complaints.