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 jpeg Fri Apr 03, 2026 3:35 pm
Certified Beatz wrote:The higher ups took advantage of it user base and released controllers with half of its capabilities. Nothing gets addressed and they dont listen to there customers.. all facts!


the marketing boys took over maschines development; they choose to prioritise building an ecosystem around maschine (hence maschine jam) instead of listening to the users and focusing on developing the maschine software.

NI got arrogant with the success of the maschine, they took the user base for granted and they paid the price
By Certified Beatz Fri Apr 03, 2026 4:03 pm
B-Wise wrote:That sounds like the plan, but I hope they fix more bugs & make more QoL improvements in between that. Many people had problems with 3.7.1 on the MPC. The Force version was so bad they remove like it never existed :smh: They may wait until NAMM of 2027 to drop the One or do it like you said & drop one or both keys at NAMM. So far they dropped 3 MPCs within a year. I guess all them plugin sales were worth it :lol:


By now everyone bought so they need to reup :-D after the discounts
By Certified Beatz Fri Apr 03, 2026 4:05 pm
NearTao wrote:I'm sure Akai has done the market research to know how to scoop up the most effective bits of the market. There had to have been a discussion of "how many people will buy a Live 3 then an XL" vs "XL then Live 3"... the Sample coming out opens up the interesting conversation for them of how much more can they charge for an updated MPC One in this space. The Sample at $399 probably pushes the MPC One right around the $1000 price tag.


They have to keep it around $800 then key 37 around $1000 then gen 2 key 61 around $1800
By Certified Beatz Fri Apr 03, 2026 4:07 pm
xantus wrote:i really thought this thread was an april fools lol

"yes akai please sell us more hardware while mpc3 desktop is still completely pathetic"

I cant use the desktop software until they add the arranger.. until then XL standalone in cubase which is fire..
By Certified Beatz Fri Apr 03, 2026 4:10 pm
jpeg wrote:
Certified Beatz wrote:The higher ups took advantage of it user base and released controllers with half of its capabilities. Nothing gets addressed and they dont listen to there customers.. all facts!


the marketing boys took over maschines development; they choose to prioritise building an ecosystem around maschine (hence maschine jam) instead of listening to the users and focusing on developing the maschine software.

NI got arrogant with the success of the maschine, they took the user base for granted and they paid the price

They should just make the software into plugin open to MPC so I can just use there expansion with the effects they were built for.. that all I like about maschine.. I could get the workflow and why they took away kontrol mk3 capabilities to use with the maschine software.

I wasted over $3k with maschine controllers . I bought maschine + and sent it back 3 days later :-D :-D
By Masi Sat Apr 04, 2026 4:12 pm
jpeg wrote:NI got arrogant with the success of the maschine, they took the user base for granted and they paid the price

I get it that MPC users naturally think of Maschine when NI is mentioned. But I don't think wrong decisions made concerning Maschine alone would have brought NI into troubles.

NI was and is much more than Maschine.

Sadly all of NI's glory lies in the past (like Massive).
By John Down Doe Sat Apr 04, 2026 6:09 pm
Akai pro is killing me almost everyday. It's a trash device if you syncing it with other devices. And I mean not only midi-sync. Audio inputs and effects are delayed too. Gave up and switched to Elektrons again to sync my zoo.
PS. When using internal plugins, all seems fine.
By Certified Beatz Sat Apr 04, 2026 8:40 pm
John Down Doe wrote:Akai pro is killing me almost everyday. It's a trash device if you syncing it with other devices. And I mean not only midi-sync. Audio inputs and effects are delayed too. Gave up and switched to Elektrons again to sync my zoo.
PS. When using internal plugins, all seems fine.


Please explain the audio inputs and effects delayed? Thats a new one..
By John Down Doe Sat Apr 04, 2026 10:04 pm
no problem. I connect my Boog to input 1, monitoring is on. add some delay(bus or insert, no matter). And then I clearly hear some jitters and out-of-sync behaviour, while synth playing. I connect Boog to Octatrack midi output and still - out of sync. When I connect audio output to my main sound card, all is fine.
By Certified Beatz Sat Apr 04, 2026 10:17 pm
John Down Doe wrote:no problem. I connect my Boog to input 1, monitoring is on. add some delay(bus or insert, no matter). And then I clearly hear some jitters and out-of-sync behaviour, while synth playing. I connect Boog to Octatrack midi output and still - out of sync. When I connect audio output to my main sound card, all is fine.


Ok I understand now.. which MPC?
By SKANDALOOX Sat Apr 04, 2026 10:56 pm
i dunno about all these issues but...

why can't i buy the NI plugin features when i'm still in version 2.15 MPC Key 37 ?

i'm financialy broke IRL :mrgreen:

while i'm your favorite beatmaker's favorite beatmaker... yeah baby

i'm interested by the expansion Samples From Mars - Classic Drum Machines https://www.thempcstore.com/mpc-expansi ... -machines/

but it says i got to get MPC3...
By Certified Beatz Sat Apr 04, 2026 11:13 pm
SKANDALOOX wrote:i dunno about all these issues but...

why can't i buy the NI plugin features when i'm still in version 2.15 MPC Key 37 ?

i'm financialy broke IRL :mrgreen:

while i'm your favorite beatmaker's favorite beatmaker... yeah baby

i'm interested by the expansion Samples From Mars - Classic Drum Machines https://www.thempcstore.com/mpc-expansi ... -machines/

but it says i got to get MPC3...


New file format you most likely can buy and convert
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By Lampdog Sun Apr 05, 2026 3:06 am
SKANDALOOX wrote:i dunno about all these issues but...

why can't i buy the NI plugin features when i'm still in version 2.15 MPC Key 37 ?

These things were built around v3. It says mpc3.
v2 is not compatible.

This is one of the things you have to weigh and consider while staying on v2.
You get left behind and/or you chose to stay behind.