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 Wlee2808 Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:50 pm
Is this possible? Seen a few questions on it over the years, but no answers, so I'm assuming not, but would be really handy in a live situation especially.

Obviously, you can use them to switch sequences, so surely it's not beyond the realms of possibility?
By Parialated Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:55 pm
you mean complete songs??cause you can mute and unmute tracks with the pads, maybe you can perhaps make mixdowns and load the whole song on a pad, and use note on but doesnt seem practical.... or you can make it that the you load complete song on pads, and then dedicated a sequence to that particular bounced track, so every sequences contains 1 bounced track/song, and then switch between sequences/songs in that way...
else its probably to much to be able to process for the mpc....
By Wlee2808 Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:02 pm
Hi, no I mean you play in the beat on track one, then want to use the pads to quickly switch to track 2 to play in the bass, then quickly switch to track 3 to play in synth etc., not just mute and un mute.

Parialated wrote:you mean complete songs??cause you can mute and unmute tracks with the pads, maybe you can perhaps make mixdowns and load the whole song on a pad, and use note on but doesnt seem practical.... or you can make it that the you load complete song on pads, and then dedicated a sequence to that particular bounced track, so every sequences contains 1 bounced track/song, and then switch between sequences/songs in that way...
else its probably to much to be able to process for the mpc....
By Parialated Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:10 pm
alright i see... that would be cool, i suppose you could load ALL of the sounds on the different banks and switch quickly in that way, by going from bank a to b, etc..... Cause else you want the pads to be able to switch and to play the sounds (perhaps with the shift button, this could actually be a really cool feature) but i take you want also to be able to switch from drums pads to plugins etc. the only way it could work if it exclusively samples, bounced tracks and then spread m out over the different banks...