MPC 3.0 Question

MPC-Tutor wrote:JJ used to offer a partitioned OS system, not sure how it worked from a technical POV, but you could switch OS versions at boot up. Akai are unlikely to do this as they'll want everyone moving over to MPC3 rather than trying to support older versions, which is reasonable IMO.

Another option is to keep a copy of both firmwares on a USB stick and re-flash when required.

Great answer, thank you!

That change sucks!

Isnt the MPC an binary running on linux?
So maybe another binary could be started
?

@supraphonic, I LOVE that idea bro. If Akai could pull that off, they will be so far ahead of the competition that it would change the music making processes for the masses and leave the competition in the dust. I love the look of 3.0 and some of the features but absolutely hate the program/track implementation.
It used to be so easy and fast to create multiple song ideas that used completely different programs and plugins. Under one program title I may have 20 different scratchpad ideas and be able to jump from one to another effortlessly and in doing so stumble into another idea and this allowed me to finish a song, go to the other ideas and build those out and so forth without having to do any workarounds. My only issue I had with 2.0 was having to first load a sample pool/program pool before then being able to go to the sequencer and dial in samples and programs from that pool. That method also forced you to have to be limited on what to load to the pool. I used to own an Alesis HR-16B, BKE Beat Thang, several Roland and Yamaha drum machines and could always just dial up any drum kit from the entire inventory that existed on those machines directly to a track and begin working. If a kit has certain samples I didn’t like, I could simply select the pad and dial in a different sample. If a snare pad had a snare sample I didn’t want to use, I could just select that snare pad and browse for a different snare and the browser would by default automatically be set to browse for snares unless I told it otherwise.

40Beatz wrote:

kaydigi wrote:
Used MPC Ones start are around $375 USD,

might be option for you to carry a second MPC and have that flashed as the ALT firmware.

The Best Advice As Of Yet!

Eventually they are going to stop Support of MPC 2(if they haven't already). So you might as well get use to the New Firmware or you'll be trying to learn it later...Forcefully lol.

I keep a couple of my other MPCs with 2.15 on them but find myself Not using them as much.

That's the point, I also want to stay with 2.15.1 but I know how it works today, they'll stop supporting Mpc2, new features and plugins and fx will come out just for MPc3 and at the end we will all have to jump boat.
Knowing Akai and how they work with bug fixing, we will still have at least 6 months, I guess, before 3 is stable enough.
Anyway, copying and duplicating the track, if MPC3 will just load the original samples even for duplicated track, seems the better way to emulate the MPC2 workflow of shared programs.
I just hope they are not going to screw up our older project, I hope they find a way to have 100% compatibility with MPC2 projects.

Its like hoping MPC2500/1000 format will load in the New MPC 2. Gotta back everything up on Three Different Medias. That way if MPC3 corrupts one of your MPC 2 Projects, you'll be good.
Two Different MPC's running MPC 2 and 3 ....is the only Logical Solution.

I still have Projects on my 4000, some on my 2500 and MPC 2000XL

wordice wrote:It used to be so easy and fast to create multiple song ideas that used completely different programs and plugins. Under one program title I may have 20 different scratchpad ideas and be able to jump from one to another effortlessly and in doing so stumble into another idea and this allowed me to finish a song, go to the other ideas and build those out and so forth without having to do any workarounds.

Yup, this is it - I often start with an idea, and then expand upon that idea into several different directions and many times end up with something a lot better than I originally would have thought of. And it is precisely that quick and easy workflow that makes it possible.