Bug reports & end-user support for Akai's MPC Software 'controllers' including the new MPC Studio 2, the MPC Touch, MPC Renaissance & original MPC Studio and MPC StudioB lack.
By mjdom Thu Jun 06, 2024 1:32 am
Hi guys.

I owned the Akai MPC Studio Silver and the software 'The 809', 'The Bank', and 'Hybrid', version 1.1.7. Now I have purchased the latest version of MPC ONE+ with the new MPC2 software and updated the software on my computer (Mac OS Catalina 10.15). Despite my old software and all my legacy versions being fully operational on my computer, these same programs do not operate on the MPC ONE+ hardware. When I try to use the old projects on the new MPC, a message informs me that the software 'The 809', 'The Bank', and 'Hybrid' are missing. My question are: Will I lose all my old projects? Will the old software not work on the new MPC?
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By MPC-Tutor Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:48 am
Those plugins only work in the MPC Software. There are no standalone versions of those plugins, so if your projects rely on those specific plugins you'll have to look at bouncing those tracks down to audio in the MPC Software, or maybe making sampled versions of the patches as keygroups and DRUM programs (e.g. using autosampler etc). You can then load your project into standalone without any errors.

Alternatively substitute those plugins for plugins that work in both environments, for example DrumSynth can handle the 809 stuff while Hype or Tubesynth can likely mimic the patches from Hybrid (or use Fabric if you have it). The Bank is just a sample library (from what I remember), so if you really need those specific samples, just resample them and make a DRUM program from them.
By DJ Day Won Sat Nov 16, 2024 4:17 pm
Maybe I'm dreaming, but can we/should we petition for Akai and AIR to update their legacy plugins like The Bank, The Web, The Noise, The 809 and Hybrid etc. to either work with the latest versions of MPC Software and standalone units or at least give us new plugins that are basically mirrors of those plugins?
I bought a new Mac this year with the intention of doing all of my music production there, thus freeing up space on my laptop that I want to dedicate to DJing. I came to find out that many of my plugins don't work with the current Mac OS and I can't load any older older OSs.
I used those legacy plugins on almost all of my projects (The Bank and Hybrid in particular). This is very disheartening to think that I...
1. Seemingly bought a whole new computer for nothing.
2. Can't recreate or transfer work that I did with a program I've been dedicated to for like 10 years now.