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 Masi Thu May 14, 2026 9:34 am
The SEM clone would be nice:
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/bx_oberhausen

Or maybe a Pultec emulation:
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/passeq

A whacky distortion/glitch thingy:
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/dent-2

An enhancer:
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/character

(Perceived) Loudness:
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/bx_clipper
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/bx_limiter

There are so many great plugins. I fear that many of them are way too CPU hungry to run on even a gen2 MPC.

I have added the "Character" to the list just because it's quite old and so I assume it has a chance to be portable.
By Masi Thu May 14, 2026 12:44 pm
natbuk wrote:Are you sure? are you confusing PA with NI?

Nope.

NI bought up iZotope, Braionworx AND Plugin Allliance (around 2021 IIRC). So inMusic owns now all four companies.

See https://www.inmusicbrands.com/press/inmusic-native/

For some reason folks here mainly think of Maschine and Kontakt when their hear NI, but NI was much bigger than that for years.

It's a shame that the private equity owners of NI came up with no better idea to solve problems around 2020. Instead of focusing on their own products, customers and strengths they simply bought other companies.