MPC ONE: Does it have latency when triggered by external Seq

I need a (my ideal would be old school standalone) sampler for creating kits and chopping the occasional loops under the hood.
I will be sequencing it using either my Squarp Pyramid or my Cirklon but the trouble I suspect I will have is that these 'iPad in a control box' samplers like Maschine+ (i've already tested it, its no good to me) and the new MPCs have awful unusable latency when triggered from external sequencers.

Should I even bother looking at the MPC one or should I just wait for the Roland SP404 mkii to come out. That does look like it will trigger properly and tight triggering is more important to me than the extra features of the MPC.
It's really annoying that Akai (or anybody for that matter) don't make well featured rack samplers any more.

I think i saw some people having trouble having MPC as a MIDI slave, but from what i understand you want a box that would just play samples triggered from MIDI generated from external source.

IMO it should work without any issue or non-standard latency if all needed samples are in a program in a selected track.
What i am not sure ATM is MIDI channel support - so if you could assign selected MIDI channel to selected tracks in MPC and use it as multi timbral instrument playing up to 16 separate programs. I can look into it, but i most likely won't be able to do it today.

Triggering my MPC One from Reaper on my PC has zero latency. Your subject asks if there is latency and then you later say that there is awful unusable latency, where did you hear this?

Why would you wanna trigger a mpc via a external sequencer? Just curious

Christov wrote:Why would you wanna trigger a mpc via a external sequencer? Just curious

I have a Cirklon and an Pyramid hardware sequencers. They are far more creative ways to sequence tracks than the awful way of doing it on the MPC (I bought an MPC Live when they came out and hated it).

I'm not looking for an all in one box like the MPC but there are no old school samplers on the market any more that don't have a sequencer and pads attached to it. Because its not design with being triggered externally I mind they dont trigger quickly.

Is there a buffer setting in the MPC OS? This is probably why you can't get it the trigger speed low like a proper hardware sampler.

Bradley Smith wrote:Triggering my MPC One from Reaper on my PC has zero latency. Your subject asks if there is latency and then you later say that there is awful unusable latency, where did you hear this?

Here. It is/was clearly a problem with MPC Live. I was wondering if the issue is the same with MPC One.
viewtopic.php?p=1820813

I also owned a Maschine+ just before I bought my Cirklon and trying to get it to trigger like a real hardware instrument was impossible. Impossible to use for drums as it lags behind the beat. You can't have drums triggering late.

Cashman wrote:

Bradley Smith wrote:Triggering my MPC One from Reaper on my PC has zero latency. Your subject asks if there is latency and then you later say that there is awful unusable latency, where did you hear this?

Here. It is/was clearly a problem with MPC Live. I was wondering if the issue is the same with MPC One.
viewtopic.php?p=1820813

I also owned a Maschine+ just before I bought my Cirklon and trying to get it to trigger like a real hardware instrument was impossible. Impossible to use for drums as it lags behind the beat. You can't have drums triggering late.

Happy to try out your particular requirement later. Would triggering a 120BPM drum track from Reaper alongside a 120BPM melody on the MPC One be a sufficient test? Do you need me to get Reaper be the master clock and send clock to the MPC?

Triggering PC's VST via MIDI to USB cable returns long latency. Impossible to play like that.

I am not sure if you saw this, but there is a video on youtube about hooking up Pyramind with MPC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmtUcB1X9FA

NewAkaiUser wrote:Triggering PC's VST via MIDI to USB cable returns long latency. Impossible to play like that.

Weird, I do not experience any latency when doing that.

NewAkaiUser wrote:Triggering PC's VST via MIDI to USB cable returns long latency. Impossible to play like that.

The latency doesn't come from the MPC, it comes from audio buffering on your computer. There is absolutely no perceptible latency when sequencing hardware synthesizers via the MPC MIDI out. So don't blame the MPC because general purpose computers can't handle audio without perceptible latency.

However there might BE some synchronization issues when trying to synchronize the clock of the MPC with an external sequencer's clock.