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 prmtr Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:21 pm
Hi

I just purchased MPC LIVE 2. I just want to ask about pad colors. I have a folder called Expansions on the SD card, where I put some free and bought expansions for my MPC LIVE 2. It is working immediately, with the cover screen and every data inside. I can load programs and so on, everything is working in this way. But every pad has the same color, exactly green. I am expecting that samples to be categorized by type to different colors - and they are for sure, but I can't make it visible like this. How it is possible? Everything is one color. I can switch the color mode to velocity and other possibilities but it is not still categorized with the colors. What I am doing wrong?
Thank you so much for any help
Regards
George
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By Monotremata Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:55 pm
Ever since 2.11, Pad Perform mode is permanently on. They replaced the "OFF" option with "Custom" so now it's on all the time. Regardless of what pad colors the keygroup/program has set, since Pad Perform is on, all it does is lights up whatever scale is set in Pad Perform now. If you change it to "Custom" it lights up EVERYTHING. Along with that, every time you press a pad, it highlights the note you're playing along with ALL the octaves of that note too. For example, I always have mine set to the 'Classic Velocity' setting that goes from green-yellow-red depending on how hard you hit it. Now with Pad Perform broken, all my pads are green and there is no more velocity feedback from the lights.

Pad colors only correctly work on Drum Programs now, everything else is stuck in Pad Perform mode.