Akai Professional MPC Live II – Battery Powered Drum Machine and Sampler With Built in Speakers, Beat Pads, Synth Engines and Touch Display

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A while back the Live gained shortcuts from the drum pads, but the MkII goes one better and squeezes in some extra dedicated buttons. There's also support for any class-compliant audio interface, so you can record and mix tracks directly from your Akai MPC unit. I love being able to use the mpc X/Live bible during my downtime when i am away from my lab/on the road to brush up on my skills and better learn the instrument.

Because of its higher audio quality and compatibility to move to a mastering stage, the final output will always sound more dynamic and flavourful. The Push screen sucks (low res, some parameter names have to be shortened to things like PE R < V, standing for Pitch Envelope Rate modulated by Velocity…) Dialing in sounds is not very fun on the Push. I just can’t dial in something with Air Reverb or any of the other ones that give me that atmospheric feeling I’m after in the kind of music I make.Yeah, this is the sound advice and I actually have a trial license for Suite and the clock is ticking. Not only does having a battery make it super portable, but the built in speaker is icing on the cake and a game changer in my opinion. Usb-c powered and can run on a PD compatible 65W powerbank or Macbook Pro charger - this somewhat negates the issue below with the underpowered internal battery because there is no room in my house without a usb-c charger. Minimum 2GB free disk space (20GB for all content), Minimum 4GB RAM (8GB recommended), Minimum Dual-core 2. We’ve waxed lyrical on multiple occasions about our scepticism of the need for companies to keep adding speakers to their synths and grooveboxes – they rarely sound decent, offering no substitute for headphones or proper monitoring and – in the case of Volcas, POs, etc, – have more capacity to annoy those around you than aid your music-making.

Files can be accessed and transferred to an inserted SD Card and/or an external drive attached to the USB hub on the back. It feels like that workflow of aligning stems, naming tracks and re-doing some of the work you already did on the MPC to recreate the reverbs again in the daw is just tedious and a fun killer. You could have a whole live set loaded up, but memory puts a limit on this for now, especially if you want to use audio tracks. I acquired the MPC Live II over a year and a half ago to be my all-in-one music box for studio, rehearsal and live use (In an alternative rock setting).I got my MPC on the weekend and this came highly recommended by some of the folks on the Muffwiggler forum.

Not that I'm some gear guru or have all the gear in the world but I have spent a pretty penny on gear and I would trade it all in for this. For me, while I prefer how Akai Pro's Force works in stand-alone mode, it's a difficult choice as the MPC has a killer solution for progressing a song on your computer. The most obvious update for the MPC Live II comes in the form of a chunky black built-in speaker sat across the full width of the hardware’s bottom edge. While they were at it, Akai Professional also updated their time-warp algorithm and enhanced their Q-Link control system. Introducing the Akai MPC Live Standalone Music Production Center the new ultra-portable MIDI controller that offers superior control over multiple parameters whether that is in standalone mode or integrated into a computer setup.Prepare for MPC's biggest update ever, cementing MPC as the most powerful, feature-rich standalone production platform on the market. I connected the Retrokits RK006 interface that I have on test, and boom: 10 new MIDI output ports on my MPC!

The Akai MPC Live II offers an internal memory capacity of 16 GB ex works; likewise, 16 GB of sample content is already included in the memory! studio spaces to stage and back - whatever your day demands, you can count on MPC Live II to deliver the goods. Introducing the Akai MPC Live Standalone Music Production Center, the small but mighty MIDI controller that features numerous ways to make sure you stay creative for longer, whether that is in the studio or on stage.All this made the MPC the centerpiece of my studio and the perfect travel companion for composition abroad. x and fully support all MPC format expansions, sounds, samples, programs and projects made for MPC Software 1.