A cheaper option is to buy a Zenology Pro Lifetime license and auto sample key groups out of it. That way you can also tweak them to your heart’s liking and also make your own presets.
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I mostly find -when I convert an fm-patch to a sampled instrument- that I often miss the subtle nuances in timbre caused by velocity that can be accomplished so well by FM synthesis …
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Yeah most of the fun with FM is modulating the parameters. Sampling kinda takes the life out of it, except maybe shorter percussive FM.
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Absolutely, I was mentioning that in comparison to getting an MC101 to use as a sound source.
Oops, my bad
Can’t believe no influencer has done a video on the OPx4 etc.
one “con” for OPx4: the INIT preset isn’t an empty preset at all: loads of active mod slots in it…
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You can always create your own init preset, and save as favourite. You could even create a project template that has that plug+patch loaded 
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Yep!
FM synths auto sampling is like driving under 60 in a sports car.
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Too complex for influencers. Imagine hearing about mathematical ratios from BoBeats.
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But… but that means we have to do a little effort ourselves?! 
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lol
Ill start. Here’s a 3mn intro: https://youtu.be/SU69aBKtdZ0
and here is part2 of the OPX4 walkthrough: https://youtu.be/rxyLck6frRs
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the auto-sampler imho is just for abusing creatively or for getting some programs together for sketching and it’s better than perfect for that… I don’t think it was ever meant to compete with the synths that you actually autosampled from in the first place.
give akai their flowers while they’re here 
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so when does 2.12 come out?! 
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I am buying Salt stocks.
Price is gonna go up!
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These new synths are becoming very hard to ignore and not fall in love with on the MPC 
I’ll be growing out this Playlist over the coming days before the demo runs out:
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Good stuff!
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How does this work? Do you have to remap everytime? I’d buy a faderfox for my Keys if it’s set once and forget.
When I tried to map a midi mixer some time ago, it didn’t go as planned. AFAIC there is no way to map a midi mixer to always control the volume of whatever is on track 1,2,3 etc, since track volume is mapped to actual programs…