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 Busy-Row-248 Sun Mar 29, 2026 1:27 pm
I bought a 2nd hand MPC X. Occasionally the hardware controls will freeze (pads and knobs become unresposive, all the LEDs/lights and the screens associate with the Q links will power off) but the touch screen still works. Nothing I do will bring the controls back. I tried starting a new project from the touch screen but when it 'relaunched', the hardware controls were still off.

I thought it might be a resource issue as a couple of times it happened, a fairly resource-heavy project was loaded, but it has jutst happened with only 4 track loaded (1 plugin and 3 drum tracks).

Anyone experienced this before? I tried searching the forums but didn't have much luck.