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.