Go to MENU and hit the ‘MPC’ chip near the top right of the screen and select CONTROLLER MODE. Desktop).įire up MPC Software 2.x and connect your MPC Live/X via USB to your computer and turn on your MPC. The first thing to do is download the workflow files and extracted the contents to any location on your computer (e.g. This 10 step workflow handles the bulk of the work for you, it even renames all your samples and automatically maps them to a fully working keygroup program! Before You Start So I thought it would be pretty cool to come up with a really quick ‘plugin cloning’ solution for the MPC X/MPC Live community, so here it is, the ‘VST-2-MPC’ workflow that will allow anyone to clone their favourite plugin patch using nothing but an MPC X/MPC Live in under 3 minutes! We all know that we can’t use plugin instruments while in ‘standalone mode’ in our MPC X & MPC Live, but we can quite literally ‘clone’ those plugins by multisampling them and creating native MPC ‘keygroup’ instruments from those samples.

This has been my most requested MPC X & MPC Live tutorial ever – how to create ‘standalone’ MPC instruments from your favourite VST plugins! Update: Since the release of firmware 2.3, the workflow described in this tutorial is now superseded by my new Autosampler tutorial!

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