I'm only 15 minutes away from an Ikea, so maybe I'l stop by there today. I know that Ikea stand is a crazy cheap desktop solution, though. I'm considering picking up a stage-worthy electronic drum stand, so I can get this thing off of my desk entirely and keep it free-standing next to it. Your photo - yeah - now I remember: the Ikea desktop stand. Not sure if I have a defective battery or if this is just par for the course with Akai MPC Lives.
Last question, when your Live has been plugged in and charging all night, what does it show in the battery meter? I can't get mine to climb above 98%. Someday, some company will clean up when they release a groovebox or other standalone performance workstation that has "A" and "B" projects and can play and crossfade between the two projects simultaneously.
The Live can't load a song from a file while another one is playing, but then again I've never really seen a device that can. That said, I can now do entire live dance music shows with just a Live, although I do have to merge multiple songs into sets of sequences in a single project in order to get a seamless hour or two worth of material in one project. Now the MPC is my "main" beast, although I do still have a Circuit in the mix just for the fun of it. Prior to picking one up, I was doing live sets with a couple of Novation Circuits. Time to put my M-Audio Trigger Finger Pro up for sale! I can also have the MPC Touch go into MIDI controller mode and use it as a pad controller for Reason devices like Kong, etc.Īnyway, I'll probably keep this. This is very different from how the MPC Live works (which actually runs the MPC 2.4 software on the device itself unless you are in controller mode). The touch-screen essentially serves as an extended desktop display and controls the MPC 2.4 software with a specialized GUI/UX on the extended touch display. I love the pads - they're thick but sensitive. So I decided to use the MPC Touch as an audio interface when I need to sample and run standalone, but use my RME Babyface Pro for everything else. If I use the MPC 2.4 software inside of Reason, however, it's fine on my RME Babyface. using my RME Babyface as the audio driver causes the MPC 2.4 software to crash if I use any of the included Air effects plugins as inserts.
use the MPC Touch as an audio interface if you want to sample from the phono-in and monitor, and 2. The MPC Touch acts as an external soundcard, which at first I didn't use since my RME Babyface is far superior, but you have to 1. Setup was a breeze, and I downloaded the latest MPC Software 2.4. These retailed at $800 USD, but dropped to $399 - $450 in the past few weeks, so they're likely being discontinued. So I ended up picking up the MPC Touch when they were being cleared out at Sweetwater.
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