![]() ![]() buy a used MPC Studio (the black version). ![]() If you truly want the best of everything. The fact that nearly everything (including all 16 q-links) can be midi-mapped is so, so, SO useful. The window is HUGE and shows you everything you need to see. I used to think the best drum sampler plugin was Poise by (Windows-only, and now free!), but MPC Beats may be the king. I find Grid View and Wave view (especially in Program Edit mode) to be really handy. amazing how these controls are available to learn, but not on their own hardware. Oddly, some midi-mappable controls (Grid View / Waveform View) are not present with Akai's own MPC Studio (v2), MPC Touch, MPC Ren, etc. The software and plugin provides a lot of maps for a lot of controllers (including Akai's biggest competitor, NI, and Maschine). I love how (almost) everything is midi-mappable to basically ANY 3rd-party MIDI controller. And the templates/demos show that you can do a lot, even with its track limits (8 MIDI tracks, 2 audio tracks). The free factory content is really nice and covers a lot of ground, musically. (Windows) which means, if you have a custom plugin folder like a lot of people have, you have to grab it from Program Files\Steinberg\vstplugins and move it to your VST plugin folder. It doesn't give you an option during install, for the plugin location. But they just may have won me over with the release of MPC Beats, summer 2020. ![]()
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