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.
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By Icepulse Wed Sep 27, 2017 2:58 pm
I guess the idea is, if you're going to be tethered to a warehouse full of spaghetti and synths, why not just use the software / computer?

Standalone, for me, means it's something you can pull out the backpack, and deliver on the kitchen table.
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By Danoc Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:39 pm
DAMMMMMMMMM On the Kitchen table? Might as well throw in my home made spaghetti, I got a mean cooking streak! :popcorn: 8)

Icepulse wrote:
Standalone, for me, means it's something you can pull out the backpack, and deliver on the kitchen table.
By Automageddon Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:55 am
Icepulse wrote:Standalone, for me, means it's something you can pull out the backpack, and deliver on the kitchen table.

Then I'm not sure the MPC X is standalone, unless you have a very large backpack...
By marctronixx Thu Sep 28, 2017 1:09 pm
The X does not need a computer to perform it's duty. The touch , for example , needs a computer to do its function, no?

This is what is mean by standalone.

Y'all nit picking about modular gear and connecting the X to something.. you can certainly take the X (or live) out on the boulevard or the kitchen table :D and totally create a track/song using ONLY the machine.

That is standalone. You dont need the computer for any final processing.
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By Danoc Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:05 pm
TRUE, if we do the final processing in the MPC Live or X, that would include mixing etc which if you think about it can be done. I would love to see Akai, but a third party make a single fader that take control of all the mixing parameters in these machines. Like an Presonus single fader or Alpha Track, that would put the power in our hands and can mix right there without the computer. Being I have the Alpha Track I am comfy mixing in Reason.

marctronixx wrote:The X does not need a computer to perform it's duty. The touch , for example , needs a computer to do its function, no?

This is what is mean by standalone.

Y'all nit picking about modular gear and connecting the X to something.. you can certainly take the X (or live) out on the boulevard or the kitchen table :D and totally create a track/song using ONLY the machine.

That is standalone. You dont need the computer for any final processing.
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By Danoc Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:06 pm
Cockdiesel wrote:I wonder if they had the same complaint if a guitarist plugged his guitar into the machine....


They shouldn't because a guitar is not a computer, it's a real instrument, Tim Kelley did that and it was standalone.
By Cockdiesel Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:31 pm
They need to make thier ableton controllers work with them I have a apc 40 waiting...

Synth, guitar whatever are all musical instruments. The eurorack he's using is no differnt and the type of sound design he does cannot be achieved very easily with soft synths. I'm not really into him, but he makes some crazy stuff.
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By Danoc Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:02 am
THAT DUDE IS A MUSICAL PERVERT! Lmao

Cockdiesel wrote:They need to make thier ableton controllers work with them I have a apc 40 waiting...

Synth, guitar whatever are all musical instruments. The eurorack he's using is no differnt and the type of sound design he does cannot be achieved very easily with soft synths. I'm not really into him, but he makes some crazy stuff.
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By Living Bate Fri Sep 29, 2017 4:26 pm
the 'Stand Alone Challenge' is a bullshit concept......its just a gimmick...

like how can a bloke with an MPC riggged up to a room full of gear with wires everywhere be stand alone

but connect an MPC to a laptop and its no longer stand alone?

like I said when i first heard the term Stand Alone Challenge.....like what the fuck?.....mans been doing the stand alone challenge since the MPC60
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By Danoc Fri Sep 29, 2017 4:44 pm
Staying away from the Computer is the basics of standalone. That's the main purpose of Akai making the machines so you won't be bothered by computers and just rock out.
Without all that gear the MPC is naked, please don't talk about the stock sounds, not every one wants that nor should everyone use the same stock sounds. MPC 2000xl didn't come with any sounds, so how else would I get sounds in it? I use to rock like that without the computer, MPC and Keyboard and sound modules and rocked!



Living Bate wrote:the 'Stand Alone Challenge' is a bullshit concept......its just a gimmick...

like how can a bloke with an MPC riggged up to a room full of gear with wires everywhere be stand alone

but connect an MPC to a laptop and its no longer stand alone?

like I said when i first heard the term Stand Alone Challenge.....like what the fuck?.....mans been doing the stand alone challenge since the MPC60
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By Lampdog Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:30 pm
Danoc wrote:2000xl didn't come with any sounds


Why yes, yes it did, on cd, I have the original cd that came with my 2kxlse2.

Pic from net.

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But I understand your point.

Standalone 2kxl, no gear attached. CD samples or sampled in samples would be fine. But NO other gear attached is real standalone alone.
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By Danoc Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:01 am
I have that CD right now also and l showed it here. Its nothing but drums! There are no synths, pianos, strings, guitar etc.

Now how would you make an album with just drums and a singer? And those aren't the sounds l was talking about. The Live And X comes with that in it. It comes well more equipt than the 2000XL.

Now sampling comes into play if a person samples which the XL and Live does and chop it up and makes a beat is that not standalone? So you say sampling from AN OUTSIDE SOURCE is standalone ? That's like bringing in synth sounds from An OUTSIDE SOURCE!

I will wait for your reply.

Lampdog wrote:
Danoc wrote:2000xl didn't come with any sounds


Why yes, yes it did, on cd, I have the original cd that came with my 2kxlse2.

Pic from net.

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But I understand your point.

Standalone 2kxl, no gear attached. CD samples or sampled in samples would be fine. But NO other gear attached is real standalone alone.
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By Lampdog Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:54 am
If you have a 2kxl and sample into it, the machine by itself is stand alone. Same with my 4k.

It has nothing in it, you HAVE to sample. Cd or not you HAVE to bring samples into it. Same with any gear that samples. Sampling is fine. Standalone with no other gear I specificied. Gear I said, gear. It was gear. :lol: