Akai Professional MPC Live | Ultra-Portable Fully Standalone MPC With 7-Inch Multi-Touch Display, 16GB On-Board Storage, Rechargeable Battery, Full Control Arsenal and 10GB Sound Library Included

Love it. I've been using an Electribe 2 for the last year or so, and felt like it was time for an upgrade. Awesome machine. I haven't delved too deep into it yet, but so far everything I've tried to do with it has been fairly intuitive. Coming from a daw the workflow might be a little confusing, but coming from the Electribe, it wasn't all that different. The build quality is great. The touchscreen is easily one of the most accurate and responsive touchscreens I've used on any device. The only minor gripe I had was, when mine arrived, it was missing the power supply, but I called up Akai, and they're sending me one, so that's no biggie. In the meantime, I got a universal laptop charger that works with it just fine. (: Other than that little hiccup, I have no complaints. Five stars (:

Love my new MPC Live. Had an MPC 2000 XL years ago. Need an option to be more portable with and this is definitely one of the great pieces Akai has made. Compact and easy to use if you are already familiar with this companies products. Advice... Watch plenty of tutorials online to blast off.

There is a huge learning curve with this product. All instruction of value is online and most of it is marketing / promotional information, unless you're willing to pay for some tutorials. I design multi-million $$ UI's for a living and engineer UX's. They've tried to fit too much onto a small touch screen without providing the appropriate amount of documentation and instructional material.Even worse, I've had mine for 3 months and the onboard hard drive crashed - meaning I lost access to the 16GB of storage and all of the 10GB of preloaded content. Now I'm stuck. I can't return it. I can't find any online support specific to my case. I'm basically wondering around in online forums and waiting for Akai to get back to me via a warranty claim request.The MPC Live has a ton of potential - but too many corners were cut to get cheap hardware and now I'm paying the ultimate price. I'll not buy another product until I see mainstream positivity and support for the new customer / user.

This is a fantastic piece of kit but didn't work for me within my setup as it was not easy to output files to computer software for further editing. Great if you like to do everything within the hardware though. Well made solid construction will certainly survive life on the road.Now the bad news. As this didn't work within my set[/workflow I returned the unit to Amazon. They charged me a $200 restocking fee! They never mentioned a restocking fee so I was surprised to find it had been subtracted from my return. If I had known I would have simply sold the unit on eBay or reverb. What a total rip off.

I was one of the early buyers of the MPC Live with 2.0. Its a great product, but it has one foot in the pass and one foot in the future. The MPC OS, storage, and pads are great. Its truly a beast. The issue is you need ILok to use the software, it has no USB Audio outputs without the software, so you have to use the analog outs in standalone (Zoom had multiple USB outs for years????).The midi is odd because you can use the DIN midi /USB when contacted to the computer with software, but you can only use the USB in standalone for USB controllers (MidiTwister or usb keyboard). In standalone mode USB MIDI is not available (I could not use the TAS-1 USB midi in standalone had to use DIN).Again, It's beast and you'll love it, but you will be scratching your head on some things that you would think is possible with a MPC by now.

I love it so far! I’ve only had it for 2 days and have already figured out the basics with a mixture of common sense, YouTube videos, Akai forums and the extensive User guide.. if you are patient with it and have a sense of rhythm you should be fine with the learning curve. Also, if you are considering the extended warranty (manufacturers warranty is 12 months from the date of purchase) that is advertised through Amazon pay attention to the price fluctuations.UPDATE: Just over 1 year later.... I still absolutely love it. The firmware updates are always excellent. There are some small glitches and occasionally I have issues saving. But still a 5 star machine for sure.

First ill say this thing is impressive. There's only one thing I can find that's annoying as all get out. In the sample edit mode, I try to save slices to the pad bank and i find my self having to do it twice because it does not save correctly the first time. and not sometimes either. It does that every time. The sample slices will not be on the pad I assigned it to and sometimes the sample will not be there at all. That is very annoying when trying to build on all pads and banks smh. Kills the work flow in the worst way. Other than that, this thing is steller.

This is the best musical device i have ever owned. I can make tracks while taking a dump and then go to my PC and dump the track into my DAW. My keyboard and Numark mixer connect right to it. It very nice sitting at the beach making music!!You will love this thing!!

This machine is really fun. It has zero latency, the pads are the best I've tried,and the learning curve is there but if you have used a DAW before,you can quickly practice your way into understanding it.Along the way, you'll notice some really nifty features (especially Q-link knobs)that speed up workflow & encourage creativity.My favourite thing about this machine is how easy it is to get ideas out,and how fun it is to still be able to zombie-tweak when you feel like it.There are lots of VSTs in here, and while I'm still going to mix and master ondesktop, the MPC has four cores & can easily handle all those effects..So you can assign them even to individual pads, which greatly increasesthe music production potential you have.The sounds that come in the box are awesome.They're pretty comprehensive as far as the basics go,and you will have access to everything you'd need,unless you need something specific obvi.Also, there are a couple synths in here that you can connectyour midi usb keyboard and play & record.They're actually really good. I believe AIR makes them.They sound good, and the bass synths are really helpful.I have a USB interface/mixer with a line output that I hookup to the MPC Live, and I use it to record guitars & vocals.Let me tell you, this box is a jam machine. It's so much fun!You can put a beat down, double it and double it again and again,and just put down a whole lot of ideas.Then, you can sift through them with the MPC on your lap,using the intuitive knobs & touchscreen to control things.It's a joy. The MPC live is a ton of fun.It's also, however, expensive.For much less than the price of this,you can put together a PC & USB MIDI keyboard/drumpadcombo that can do essentially the same things this does.But come on.. this thing is so well put together,it just makes the process of creating music unique and fun.Drums sound great out of the box, and listening back tonew ideas is so much more pleasant for that reason.Also, it's got a SIX HOUR BATTERY!Wow.. that I almost forgot about..I really mean it. You can take this thing to a show,or in your car to a drive-thru parking lot,and genuinely not care about battery life.Just use it as you like, and as you occasionallyglance at the battery percentage, it's reassuringlyhigher than you expected it to be after all this usage.That is something you won't find in most laptopsrunning this kind of software continuously.So yeah..If you are thinking about getting it,and if you've tried it somewhere & liked it,you likely won't be disappointed,as long as you can afford it.Otherwise, there are other ways to make music,and those ways are not inferior by any means.They're just a bit less cool :)

Needs more work but hope the updates to resolve a lot of beta issues.

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