Hi people, I hope you guys can help me, I find using the mpc Studio MK2 really difficult, with contradicting info on the internet and little info from Akai. I mainly use Studio one 7 for mixing, now in the akai MPC V2 software I could build a drum track then explode it, followed by export it as separate tracks for importing into studio one. This worked for me. Now in the latest beta version, I can't seem to do this, also in the beta version there is no VST plugging for studio one... Any advice ?

 

go back to what worked.

 

Wild card, try MPC with Bitwig, continue in Studio One with DAWProject integration.

https://www.youtube.com/live/86BsMcqFQfg

 

If you are comfortable and can do anything you want in your DAW software, all you are doing is adding a middle-man between yourself and where your stems are going to ultimately end up to mix them.

Do everything in only your DAW that you can. Don't leave the DAW for anything you can avoid leaving it for. You will still need some standalone software like RX, spectralayers, full featured wave editor, and other stuff like that. If you need an mpc program to shuttle samples back and forth to the device, so be it. But those standalone applications should only be utilities of last resort for stuff your DAW cannot do. Any of those things which you need to leave your DAW just because you do not know how to do something, take the extra time to learn them in the DAW.

For every hardware convenience the AKAI mpc software has to offer, using a DAW like Studio One will have 20 things which are more efficient and will more than outweigh those shortcuts in the MPC software. Jumping between applications like this is an actual condition called FLS. Frooty Loops Syndrome.

 

Clone your quite right what you say and is excellent advice, however I like to keep my options open, I mainly use S1, but for light relief..lol. I venture to the MPC or the Maschine, just for a variation, and to refresh my learning. However after listening to your words of wisdom, I decided to sell my Maschine Mikro, and leave the NI system, and just concentrate on the MPC and S1, I know the Maschine is superior to the MPC, but I quite like the MPC, its quirky if difficult to use. Thanks once again for the advice.

 

3.0 beta software is a shit show. Go back to version 2 until October release at least. Tbh I am not holding my breath for that either.

 

Never use a beta.
Never.
Because the so called "stable" already crash, so imagine beta ...

 

Went back to version 2, I'll agree version 3 is a bitch.