MPC Sample - Rumours & Leaks

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Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By Menco Sat Mar 07, 2026 9:59 am
As an avid MPC500 user I really got my eye on this one. Though the armrest looks like a waste of real estate imo. Could live without the speaker as well, really wondering what the sound quality will be of that speaker on such a small device.

From studying the pictures it looks like the Sample won’t have a classic Program Edit feature, and makes me feel the sequencer will also be very stripped down to a maybe 1 track sequencer similar to the 404/P6. Also interested to see how projects will translate over to the bigger machines. Anyway, still enough questions I would love to see answered as we get closer to a release date.

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By J.O.BEATS Sat Mar 07, 2026 4:35 pm
It has song mode so that gives me hope it will have the classic prog/track/seq workflow. But concerning that there’s no sign of a program or tracks.

If they made it like the 404 in that regards they are missing the point.

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By Certified Beatz Sat Mar 07, 2026 4:59 pm
This will probably be the biggest sell akai has done in years with the most revenue stream.. interesting I do have a trip plan with 5.5 hr flight coming up this might be something to hit pads on with crying eroupean kids on plane.. jokes there's crying American kids also.. :-D :-D
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Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By Lampdog Sat Mar 07, 2026 5:28 pm
Neodymium wrote:but half the flights that way connect in the Middle East.

Yeah, I’d stay away from going that route.

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By J.O.BEATS Sat Mar 07, 2026 5:34 pm
Certified Beatz wrote:This will probably be the biggest sell akai has done in years with the most revenue stream.. interesting I do have a trip plan with 5.5 hr flight coming up this might be something to hit pads on with crying eroupean kids on plane.. jokes there's crying American kids also.. :-D :-D


I stopped trying to make beats on planes lol. People are too easily annoyed and annoying.

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By B-Wise Sat Mar 07, 2026 5:49 pm
Lampdog wrote:
Certified Beatz wrote:Wish we had this back in the day.. good intro and portable gear..

We did, mpc 500.

Yup. I said the same thing a couple post back. The 500 was classic Mini OG :lol:
But IMO, the 1k w JJ was as small as it can get & still give me all the cool things that the 2500 had. I also didn't like the 500 12 pads as it threw off the way I made programs on the 1k/2500.

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By wavejockey Sun Mar 08, 2026 6:31 am
J.O.BEATS wrote:It has song mode so that gives me hope it will have the classic prog/track/seq workflow. But concerning that there’s no sign of a program or tracks.

If they made it like the 404 in that regards they are missing the point.


was counting/hoping on this too

traks (button) missing is ok since it has sequence (right?), but program (button/shortcut) is a must
(for all people still on 2.14 :smh: )

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By BackOnDaMPC Sun Mar 08, 2026 11:29 am
Certified Beatz wrote: :-D I meant when I started in 1993 by then I owned thr 3000 and 2000 classic.. the 500 looked cool
'93? Wow! It is truly some vets on this site. In '93, I was 7 years old. I just turned 40 a few months back. Time flies.

I didn't gain access to an MPC until 2005 (if I recall correctly), which was an MPC 1000 (the blue and red one), but that was short-lived because it belonged to my bro-in-law, and when my sister got upset with him about something, she smashed the MPC into tiny pieces in the middle of the street. Grand entrance, grand exit :Sigh:

That's when I was introduced to FL Studio - used it until the MPC One+ dropped, which reminded me of the 1000, so I purchased the One+, and then I made my way back to the MPC world. The Live III was my latest purchase but I still have the One+ (running 2.15 :worthy: ).

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By Certified Beatz Sun Mar 08, 2026 3:01 pm
I hope you and your sister made up since then : :WTF: :WTF: :WTF: .. I was riding my bike in downtown Boston as a kid and somehow met up with older college students who made music and one of the kids had a MPC 60 . Of course I couldn’t touch it and wanted one .. I bought a dr 550 drum maschine and a Gemini sampler starting out.. the other gear.. made beat tapes and sold them in the source magazine :-D :-D. Had enough to buy the MPC3000.. the Live 3 is dope i was tempted to get instead of the XL.. I hear this alot why do you like the old mpc 2 firmware.. I was happy to get away from that work flow..

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By J.O.BEATS Sun Mar 08, 2026 6:42 pm
traks (button) missing is ok since it has sequence (right?), but program (button/shortcut) is a must
(for all people still on 2.14 :smh: )


I don’t think there will be any compatibility with 2.x or 3.x. My guess is this will be completely independent and live on its own as an option for people who want the classic workflow (programs/tracks/seq/song)
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Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By k_k Sun Mar 08, 2026 7:06 pm
hello mpc forum users,
im new here. sold my teenage engineering ep-40 yesterday, because the fx limitation and other things werent for me. now this comes up and i have never tried a mpc. it looks really good so far and i am hyped to try it out! :-)

cheers
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Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By mr_debauch Tue Mar 10, 2026 10:41 pm
Certified Beatz wrote:This will probably be the biggest sell akai has done in years with the most revenue stream.. interesting I do have a trip plan with 5.5 hr flight coming up this might be something to hit pads on with crying eroupean kids on plane.. jokes there's crying American kids also.. :-D :-D


unless it's in business class, i don't see having the room to get out even a pocket operator these days

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By Certified Beatz Wed Mar 11, 2026 2:08 am
mr_debauch wrote:
Certified Beatz wrote:This will probably be the biggest sell akai has done in years with the most revenue stream.. interesting I do have a trip plan with 5.5 hr flight coming up this might be something to hit pads on with crying eroupean kids on plane.. jokes there's crying American kids also.. :-D :-D


unless it's in business class, i don't see having the room to get out even a pocket operator these days


6 rows of seating on SATA planes.. all family going somebody gonna get elbowed :-D

Re: Mpc mini or fake, orAI?

By J.O.BEATS Thu Mar 12, 2026 5:36 pm
Homie at GC said its in inventory with release date set 3/26

Ive known the dude for awhile even rocked some shows with him so I trust him
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