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.
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By Monotremata Wed Mar 31, 2021 2:13 am
There's also the fact there's a very limited amount of resources and Akai has already done a pretty good job of squeezing what they can out of it. Pigments cant even run in live mode in Logic Pro without pegging its whole assigned core and constantly overloading on an i7 Mac mini, and Logic Pro is coded a hell of a lot more efficiently on a lot more powerful hardware than the MPC is. Massive X? Not going to happen as it uses Intel AVX instructions. Same with U-he, and just about everybody else. Open it up to the public? You're going to be stuck with githubbers and their weekend source code projects crashing your MPC left and right. Akai doesn't want any part in that support nightmare. People cant even bother to read their manual to figure out how they turn their MPC on anymore, do you think they're NOT going to go straight to Akai when somebodies half-assed port of some DX7 knock off starts wreaking havoc and melting down their MPC?
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By Ultros Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:32 am
Strait goods Monotremata. Personally i feel like saying "dudes! you bought a modular midi device and you want sw synths? what is wrong with your brain?"

Midi 101, consider the frickin mpc the computer in this diagram lol...
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add a rack mixer to that combo and connect all devices via trs to mixer and into the mpc via trs.

over at amazon folks can type in "eurorack module" and find all sorts of components to create their dream synths or.. they can invest hundreds of dollars into some intangible 1's and 0's. I'd prefer the analog toys.