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 nablip Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:04 pm
Hello guys,
I have an Mpc one that I want to sync (via midi) to other synth.
This is my setup :

The Arturia keystep pro (Master clock) is sending midi clock and controlling several synth via Midi.
I'm also sending midi clock to MPC one, but the problem is that I setup the MPC ONE to receive just the Clock, because I want It to just follow and to start and stop with the master tempo.
But the problem is that the MPC keeps reacting to the midi changes I do to the other synth and I can't do nothing to stop that !

To resume : I want the MPC to receive Clock and just follow the master tempo and trigger stop and play.

Do you have a solution ? Do you know how to change the midi channel input/output ?

Thank you for your help
By SirAdrianFish Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:33 pm
I have not got a solution, but what I have about MPC and Clock it seems to be very tricky. MPC sending Master clock works fine, MPC receiving Slave clock can be very unstable.
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By djchucknorris Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:43 pm
SirAdrianFish wrote:I have not got a solution, but what I have about MPC and Clock it seems to be very tricky. MPC sending Master clock works fine, MPC receiving Slave clock can be very unstable.


Very unstable is putting it lightly. What I've found with my key61 is that you're better off recording your tracks into your DAW without sync being on.
When I put a 4 count click sound at the start of every track (to indicate the proper start when recording it into my DAW) with sync on; every single track starts it's click at a different time. Not even 2 tracks were the same. No changes within the Logic sync settings made any difference to the lack of consistency. When I manually lined up the click starts in Logic (DAW) after recording them into my DAW, I found that each track was subject to the classic MPC drift, and by (for example) bar 61 each track would be off of each other slightly and the individual sounds were no longer aligned like at the start of the song. Meaning that the sync is having each track play at slightly different speeds.
When you do the same without sync being sent from DAW to MPC, you line up the click starts manually in your DAW and it stays aligned throughout the entire song. Meaning the MPC will play each track at the same speed when not slaved.

Even my old 2500 would align consistently between each track. Although it's start times were always off by 8/100th's when slaved.
I'd switch to rendering the individual tracks and dragging and dropping them into my DAW, but that sounds like ass compared to recording them through my Apollo and UAD plug-in's.

I'm honestly surprised that Akai's slaved sync has gotten even worse than in was in 2006. Midi sync has been around since the early 80's and Akai still can't figure it out somehow.
By jamos Thu Dec 14, 2023 11:45 pm
You're talking about two different issues. Apparently the MPC is receiving clock just fine, but everything's playing on one or mire travkd. That is because every track defaults to all ports, and all channels on the input. That's ridiculous. Go into your track view, and change the MIDI input port for each track to <none>.