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.
Bymember04959388 Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:16 pm
I want to transfer the projects I have with Ableton to Mpc Live.
I exported clips from Ableton to a hard disk, connected the hard disk to Mpc and save them in its internal hard disk.
My question is: which is the better way to use the clips in Mpc?
As samples in a drum program?
Or as clips in clip mode?
The clips are just ready to be triggered at the right bpm so I don't need to warp them or cut them.
I just need to put them on and off and to open and close effects with qlinks.
By Zack Zerox Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:03 pm
Personally I find clip mode really frustrating. When i first got my mpc I used it because it was familiar from Ableton, but it needs a fair bit of ironing out by Akai yet, to make it work well. I was tweaking an old project tonight which featured clips and it was really irritating.

I'm sure you can set your clips to loop in drum programs, and you can assign them to choke groups so they'll cut one another off. I'd use drum programs.
Bymember04959388 Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:51 pm
Zack Zerox wrote:Personally I find clip mode really frustrating. When i first got my mpc I used it because it was familiar from Ableton, but it needs a fair bit of ironing out by Akai yet, to make it work well. I was tweaking an old project tonight which featured clips and it was really irritating.

I'm sure you can set your clips to loop in drum programs, and you can assign them to choke groups so they'll cut one another off. I'd use drum programs.

Yes I am thinking the same.
I still have to test if it works fine to use samples in drum program.
I let you know.
By DokBrown Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:37 pm
I just got the MPC Live to combine my ableton/roland MV setup.
I think audio clip programs are the best way to do this.
I think the key is the toggle setting & the mute groups.
As I have only had it 2-3 monts, I could definitely be wrong.