Now that 2.11 is done for the MPC line up, let’s all hit them up for Audio/Midi over USB like we have on our Elektron kit. Please send them an email here:
Here’s a copy of what I sent them today if you want to copy and paste it instead of writing one yourself:
Congrats on 2.11!!
Thanks for the wonderful support of the MPC product line. I am really enjoying the latest 2.11 release. Great work to the MPC Team.
As I use the MPC more and more, I am really hoping that at some point we will have the ability to have Audio/Midi available over USB. I currently have this sort of workflow feature on the SP 404MK2 and Elektron Syntakt and love the simplicity of it. With 1 USB cable I can send and receive Midi and Audio to my devices, whether I am connected to a computer or my iPad.
I am sure you get this request a lot, so please take this as another vote for the feature.
and if we could get some class compliant sample rate compatibility options for elektron boxes with the mpc as well that would really be a nice 2.13 update
My thoughts exactly. For €149 you could get korg opsix vst which is much more of a synth than opx4. I think it’s the greatest FM synth out there atm.
Opx4 is fun, but relies pretty heavily on the sample part (where you can’t use your own samples) and FX which are already present in the mpc.
Opsix is a great synth, no doubt but it’s a vst, so it won’t run standalone on your Mpc. To me it makes more sense to compare hardware to hardware in which case the closest would be the liven xfm which seems to be quite tricky to program.
I completely disagree on the OPx4 relying heavily on samples, of all the patches I programmed on it, the sample layer was just an extra, in my case usually used for noise. And I could live without it…
Quick question for you all here. I have a sample and when trying to match my track tempo I don’t want to warp it a bunch, but pitch it up first and then warp just a little. But when I pitch it up and press warp on the mpc under program edit for example I think it is trying to play it pitched up but at original speed instead. So how am I supposed to do this? Do I have to pitch it up and then flatten the pads and then use warp?
Good suggestion. I’d pick workflow improvements like customizable button shortcuts over USB audio any day though. And reordering of tracks and sequences. And automation on the submixes and master outs. All of those features would be more valuable for me than USB audio.
This was the conclusion I came to for an FM approach to the MPC.
Aparillo and Beass Omega for iOS are both fantastic… and I’m not going to compare/badmouth OPX4, it’s more to say that if anyone has an iPad and hasn’t explored it properly for music, you should, the MPC/iPad combo is ridiculously powerful.
That’s exactly why I sold my MPC One, it was becoming a cable mess. I bought a SP404 MKII and need just one UBS-C to USB-C cable between my iPad/Macbook Pro for audio and midi both ways. I’m really very happy with this setup, never looked back.
oh well
