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 Terrico Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:51 pm
Thank you for sharing all of your wisdom!!

What is the best way to save a back up copy of your important projects that you cannot afford to lose?

If you are working in controller mode and you save your project to your desk top; will a copy automatically save to the SD card inserted in the MPC ?

Thank you
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By EnochLight Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:43 am
Terrico wrote:Thank you for sharing all of your wisdom!!

What is the best way to save a back up copy of your important projects that you cannot afford to lose?


Always make backup copies, is all. How you do so depends on your workflow. In your case, follow below... (though I would still make sure you are backing up your computer to another source, whether that be cloud based like BlackBlaze or removable backup storage).

Terrico wrote:If you are working in controller mode and you save your project to your desk top; will a copy automatically save to the SD card inserted in the MPC ?
Thank you


No. Assuming you are on an MPC Live/Live2/X, then any attached USB (drive/sticks), SD Cards, or installed SATA drives are treated as attached storage. If you save your project to your desktop, then simply copy that project data onto one of those. Pro tip: be sure to software "eject" your MPC via your computer's OS before switching out of Controller Mode, or you WILL eventually corrupt your data.
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By Lampdog Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:45 pm
Save to 2 diff types off media, One of which should not be constantly/actively connected to the system it was initially saved on.