The more I play my Alesis drums, the more I wish the MPC had

Multi-Out Instrument Support.: It would be great if I could separate the drums from BFD, EZ Drummer, Modo Drums, and Addictive Drums to their own tracks and mixer channels within the MPC software environment.

Fully Editable Pad Layers: If we had at least 8 layers per pad with full envelope editing per layer, Beatmaking, E-Drumming, Production, and Finger Drumming could be a much better experience.

BFD Integration: Imagine how dope it would be if you could fully integrate BFD into the MPC software environment, not just as another plugin, but something deeper, therefore creating a completely immersive experience for E-Drummers. Drum synth is cool and all, but it's nowhere close to BFD's realism, which inMusic Brands (Akai Pro's parent company) now owns...

Not an e-drummer, but I agree with all of this. Just swap SD3 for BFD

Ever used BFD? The MPCs memory wouldn't be able to handle it and still let you load your own samples into the pool heh. It would have to be a seriously 'BFD Eco Lite' version, and strip the whole thing down to only 4 layers which would pretty much ruin the good thing about BFD to begin with. A 'light' install uses 32 samples for velocity for each drum, a medium install uses 64 and a full install has a sample for each level of velocity 1-128. MPC would choke in an instant. And don't forget its not just the basic drum hits, there's the flams, the stick hits, the rim shots, etc..

BFD streams most of the kits from disk. Just a single 'light' kit from even the old Deluxe Expansion Steve Albini did would fill up the entire memory of the MPC.

Monotremata wrote:Ever used BFD? The MPCs memory wouldn't be able to handle it and still let you load your own samples into the pool heh. It would have to be a seriously 'BFD Eco Lite' version, and strip the whole thing down to only 4 layers which would pretty much ruin the good thing about BFD to begin with. A 'light' install uses 32 samples for velocity for each drum, a medium install uses 64 and a full install has a sample for each level of velocity 1-128. MPC would choke in an instant. And don't forget its not just the basic drum hits, there's the flams, the stick hits, the rim shots, etc..

BFD streams most of the kits from disk. Just a single 'light' kit from even the old Deluxe Expansion Steve Albini did would fill up the entire memory of the MPC.

I’m very aware of the MPC’s lack of memory, hence why I specifically pointed out MPC Software which is not so limiting for BFD3. What are your thoughts on the other ideas?