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 webslinger29 Sun Jan 26, 2025 7:37 am
I picked up analogue dreams and cloud supply yesterday for £25 each.

Considering this is over 250 individual patches across the two, with a degree of licence to edit them, I've found them to be pretty good. I'm more than happy to speculate that amount for that amount of content, less than most expansion packs whilst bringing something newer to the MPC. Being able to record the X/Y input on a track is obviously enabling more expressive control which is also very welcome.

They're a little slow on loading (think Fabric loading times), and if you have already selected a patch and return to the browser window, you can't just select the title page and go back in (you need to select another plug in, then go back...it just won't allow you to re-enter for some reason). Of course, you can still scroll through patches on the tracks etc. so it's not too much of a drain.

I'm running them on a Live 2 which I've had for around 3 years now. I do worry about RAM sometimes but have only ever ran out once so that's not too much of a concern.

I'll likely buy more as I'm generally inspired by sounds to make music and spend a lot of time scrolling through what I have until something clicks, being able to mess around with them with more immediacy kinda opens it up a bit more for me too.

You can trial them so why not do that, then get the serial if you like them....if you don't you don't but as a synth player/programmer, I think they were worth the £50 I've already forgotten about spending.
By Masi Sun Jan 26, 2025 7:31 pm
Hopefully NI comes up with a cross-grade price. It sucks to have to pay the full price if you paid already for VST/AU.

Not to mention that Analog Dreams is free as VST/AU.

Sure, they are companies and they exist to make money. But to me the Akai/NI partnership starts with a bad taste in the mouth.
By lamarcph Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:43 pm
If we upgrade to version 3, do we loose all possibilities of using the controller mode when the software is running on the computer?
By Certified Beatz Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:35 am
lamarcph wrote:If we upgrade to version 3, do we loose all possibilities of using the controller mode when the software is running on the computer?


In controller mode it will revert to mpc2 software..
By Masi Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:19 pm
jpeg wrote:the comments section are fuming, lmao

So true, so sad:
Two companies with old tired technologies trying to create excitement with nothing new!

And a reminder that inMusic had to buy more than NI:
I also now avoid their other companies they now own. Isotope, Brainworxs and sadly Plugins Alliance.
By machinesworking Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:26 am
Certified Beatz wrote:
lamarcph wrote:If we upgrade to version 3, do we loose all possibilities of using the controller mode when the software is running on the computer?


In controller mode it will revert to mpc2 software..

Have to add that the Ableton support for controller mode in standalone isn't there. It's a standalone thing, but it controls Ableton Live on the computer.
By jimjonez Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:11 pm
Just remembered Native instruments acquired izotope, Brainworx and Plugin Alliance so any of these could be coming to the MPC . I feel like izotope would be the most likely fit...
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By MPC-Tutor Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:35 pm
jimjonez wrote:Just remembered Native instruments acquired izotope, Brainworx and Plugin Alliance so any of these could be coming to the MPC . I feel like izotope would be the most likely fit...


The mpc versions of the ni play plugins (originally kontakt based) are, according to dustyslices, the Fabric plugin framework running a different set of underlying samples. They’ve basically turned fabric into a romper that can load up different sample libraries.

They have not re-coded Kontakt for the mpc, so as things stand this is unlikely to lead to Linux conversions of izotope plugins. It’s currently just a way of redistributing existing sample libraries in different formats be it via fabric or in expansion format
By Masi Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:48 pm
jimjonez wrote:Just remembered Native instruments acquired izotope, Brainworx and Plugin Alliance so any of these could be coming to the MPC . I feel like izotope would be the most likely fit...

They will probably need to dig up their oldest plugins to make them run on the CPU of an MPC :)
By chrisroland Mon Jan 19, 2026 7:34 pm
did anyone pick up any of the new NI Expansion Packs they announced last week? i grabbed a few and uploaded them to my SD card all fine through the InMusic software. except when you browse them on the MPC in standalone, it doesn't appear that the individual samples making up the kits or keygroups are . . . anywhere? and the kits/keygroups that are there seem to be in some proprietary NI file format?? like how do you use individual parts if you don't want to just be stuck with the full kit?
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By MPC-Tutor Mon Jan 19, 2026 8:11 pm
I had someone email me accidentally this morning with a similar issue after buying Drift Theory, something about the kits being empty after loading?

chrisroland wrote:did anyone pick up any of the new NI Expansion Packs they announced last week? i grabbed a few and uploaded them to my SD card all fine through the InMusic software. except when you browse them on the MPC in standalone, it doesn't appear that the individual samples making up the kits or keygroups are . . . anywhere? and the kits/keygroups that are there seem to be in some proprietary NI file format?? like how do you use individual parts if you don't want to just be stuck with the full kit?
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By Lampdog Tue Jan 20, 2026 4:32 am
webslinger29 wrote:I picked up analogue dreams and cloud supply.

I bought the same 2 and I enjoy them alot.
By chrisroland Tue Jan 20, 2026 4:52 am
MPC-Tutor wrote:I had someone email me accidentally this morning with a similar issue after buying Drift Theory, something about the kits being empty after loading?

chrisroland wrote:did anyone pick up any of the new NI Expansion Packs they announced last week? i grabbed a few and uploaded them to my SD card all fine through the InMusic software. except when you browse them on the MPC in standalone, it doesn't appear that the individual samples making up the kits or keygroups are . . . anywhere? and the kits/keygroups that are there seem to be in some proprietary NI file format?? like how do you use individual parts if you don't want to just be stuck with the full kit?


looking at the expansion folders on my desktop, the wav files are in there for sure but within separate dedicated subfolders. dunno that i've ever seen an .xtd file format for the kits/keygroups. sigh . . .