Are long preset load times normal on MPC One?

I'm in trial mode for the Stage Piano and Stage EP plugins and have noticed that the presets for these take MUCH longer to load than for any of the other included plugins like Hype, Tubesynth etc. Those load basically instantaneously while Stage plugins can take upwards of 20 seconds or more. Are the these plugins just memory hogs or is there something else going on? It's a bit of a drag for live performance.

MusAkai wrote:I'm in trial mode for the Stage Piano and Stage EP plugins and have noticed that the presets for these take MUCH longer to load than for any of the other included plugins like Hype, Tubesynth etc. Those load basically instantaneously while Stage plugins can take upwards of 20 seconds or more. Are the these plugins just memory hogs or is there something else going on? It's a bit of a drag for live performance.

Those are just memory hogs.,

Yes, loading times can take that long, especially with the Steinway and Yamaha acoustic pianos.

I personally would not rely on them for a live performance and would go for a good hardware piano instead, but that's just me.

You can also auto-sample them as keygroups or keep it real ghetto & sample the audio as a single pattern/stem. There's always options with Akai.

B-Wise wrote:You can also auto-sample them as keygroups or keep it real ghetto & sample the audio as a single pattern/stem. There's always options with Akai.

I'm not familiar with that yet but something I'll look into. Thanks.

This demo by Joe Filburn was helpful for me.

B-Wise wrote:This demo by Joe Filburn was helpful for me.

This is awesome! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for this.

MusAkai wrote:

B-Wise wrote:This demo by Joe Filburn was helpful for me.

This is awesome! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for this.

Joe is 1 of the best. Check out his other demos on his channel.

if it takes more than a second or two its not normal. It should be pretty fast. If not, the drive you have the content is either slow or the file system is starting to go bad orrr the drive itself is weathered.

It takes around 15 seconds for me to load the Steinway Grand from SD card on my MPC One.

I bet loading times from SSD disks on other units are better.

If you want fast loading pianos, I've now optimised my 8 layer pianos to load in 1 second or less. BTW Akai's stage piano is only 6 layers

https://www.mpc-samples.com/product.php ... expansion/

https://www.mpc-samples.com/product.php ... expansion/