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 joelsquare Mon May 11, 2026 9:22 am
chrisroland wrote:
joelsquare wrote:I’d love an easy way to control parameters on a plugin on one track from a seperate MIDI track. It can already do this easily with notes - it can’t be that much harder to do it with CCs.


except, famously, MPC chooses not to assign any of its plugin parameters actual MIDI CC values...


Yeah, and it seems that the only way to set them is using MIDI Learn connected to an external controller. That’s why I think the easiest fix is to just allow manual assignment. Leave destination selection as is, just allow us to choose a MIDI CC instead of having to wiggle a knob!
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By Jean-Marc Liotier Mon May 11, 2026 10:58 am
Talking about MIDI Learn, would it be too much to ask for the table to be sortable by columns, to at least group the learns by program ? They are currently a flat list, sorted by order of learning, which makes no sense and results in aggravating scrolling. Barring an interactive sortable/filterable table, some modicum of default logical grouping would help a lot. As a software person, I guarantee it won't cost too much...
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By Jean-Marc Liotier Mon May 11, 2026 11:43 pm
joelsquare wrote:While I’m dreaming, I may as well add Ableton/Bitwig/Logic/Rm1x style MIDIFX to the list. This would be a big OS upgrade, though. It would require a serious change of data flow and screens.
Even Zenbeats has MIDI effects. Lots of previous conversation about MIDI effects here. MIDI effects may be difficult to shoehorn into the current system - I've no idea about that, but I believe one of their qualities makes them especially attractive to provide value to the Gen1 devices: negligible CPU load compared to audio effects.
By irgendwieonline Tue Jul 14, 2026 6:43 pm
Please make it so the X-axis on the mpce pads can send pitch bend information!
When I wiggle my fingers left to right I expect this movement to cause upward/downward pitch bend information to be sent!
This functionality should be available for all track types, not only drum programs!