Still struggling with workflow

Hi all,

I’m curious how everyone gets the best out of the mpc x when using with a DAW. I’ve tried using the vst plugin and bringing in songs that I start on the mpc x and then bringing the kick,snare, hi hats, in on seperate channels into the daw using mpc vst.

I’ve tried bringing the stems seperately too but I’m just not getting on with things.

I bought cubase 9.5 pro because the songs I created in the mpc 2.2 daw where all out of sync when I loaded up the tracks with plugins.

I like working in the mpc daw for its workflow but I find it doesn’t work well as a vst and bouncing down tracks from it doesn’t bring good results I feel like the quality and timings are seriously messed up. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I opened up an older song that I did on mpc 2.x daw and it’s so out of time I like the song but don’t know where to start in trying to fix it. I’ve tried turning all the plugins off and it still sounds out of sync.

Any advice would be appreciated.

My next idea is to try the analog outputs and feed into my daw using those however that would mean I have to buy a focusrite octopre to hook it into my universal audio twin Apollo.

This video talks about linking the mpc x using a midi link from what I gather it’s so that you can record the midi in your daw and have it trigger it out of the analog outputs of the mpc x. Anyone else doing it this way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUk0UFv0M4I

Interesting.....

You have to set the bpm of your song in the host daw to match the original bpm of the mpc sequence before you open the mpc plugin in the daw.

Problem with stems? Not me. That is ine of the reasis l bought the live.

When you open your DAW first set the BPM exactly to the BPM you had did the track in the Akai 2.2.

Lyricalgenius81 wrote:Hi all,

I’m curious how everyone gets the best out of the mpc x when using with a DAW. I’ve tried using the vst plugin and bringing in songs that I start on the mpc x and then bringing the kick,snare, hi hats, in on seperate channels into the daw using mpc vst.

I’ve tried bringing the stems seperately too but I’m just not getting on with things.

I bought cubase 9.5 pro because the songs I created in the mpc 2.2 daw where all out of sync when I loaded up the tracks with plugins.

I like working in the mpc daw for its workflow but I find it doesn’t work well as a vst and bouncing down tracks from it doesn’t bring good results I feel like the quality and timings are seriously messed up. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I opened up an older song that I did on mpc 2.x daw and it’s so out of time I like the song but don’t know where to start in trying to fix it. I’ve tried turning all the plugins off and it still sounds out of sync.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Ok I have been setting the bpm exactly the same as the original track.

But opening a lot of my older songs that I did solely on mpc and there’s all sorts of time sync issues that where not as bad previously as they are now , wondering wether the 2.2 update has made things worse otherwise I’m stumped?

I may try the method in the video but unsure how it would work with midi from DAW with multiple tracks.

Lyricalgenius81 wrote:I bought cubase 9.5 pro because the songs I created in the mpc 2.2 daw where all out of sync when I loaded up the tracks with plugins.

If you mean tracks fall out of sync in MPC software due to use of plugins, it's because the software cannot compensate for the delay caused by 3rd party plugins – i.e., it's missing plugin delay compensation (which is unacceptable).

Yup, that's why I'm now using Harrison's Mixbus for mixing.

Fanu wrote:

Lyricalgenius81 wrote:I bought cubase 9.5 pro because the songs I created in the mpc 2.2 daw where all out of sync when I loaded up the tracks with plugins.

If you mean tracks fall out of sync in MPC software due to use of plugins, it's because the software cannot compensate for the delay caused by 3rd party plugins – i.e., it's missing plugin delay compensation (which is unacceptable).

Yes exactly I realised that there was no delay compensation and thought the exact same thing, the mpc 2.0 DAW is basically unusable as a pro level DAW without implementing it, completely and utterly useless!

However I reckon after playing for a good few months with the vst plugin and finally accepting its not working , that feeding the 8 analog outputs into my DAW(cubase) with a midi feed so that it plays the moc sequence when I press play in my DAW this could very well finally offer a satisfactory solution ..... fingers crossed.

I turned on the mpc and used it in standalone mode today for the first time in many months and I forgot how great and intuitive it is to quickly get beats going.

monkiusz wrote:Yup, that's why I'm now using Harrison's Mixbus for mixing.

Ok haven’t heard of this going to check it out now.

Lyricalgenius81 wrote:Ok haven’t heard of this going to check it out now.

It’s not popular but it’s good. And it’s on sale now for just $19. It’s a steal for what it offers, really, joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFLyShT_rhQ

monkiusz wrote:

Lyricalgenius81 wrote:Ok haven’t heard of this going to check it out now.

It’s not popular but it’s good. And it’s on sale now for just $19. It’s a steal for what it offers, really, joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFLyShT_rhQ

Yes it looks good shame I hadn’t heard about it before I spent over £300 on cubase pro 9.5