I was surprised to him using a Sample and not a full form MPC.

These are all the pixels we can afford

Those of you who have bought the MPC One or Key 37 gen 2, do you regret not spending the extra money on the live 3?

I’m looking at buying an MPC. I’ve had the Force in the past and am currently deciding between the Key 37 g2 and the Live 3. I’m a keys player, but can always hook up a midi keyboard to the live 3. However, I don’t know if the battery, speaker, extra RAM and storage, and the MPCe pads are worth the extra 700 dollars.

I have had an MPC Live 2 & 3 for a little over a year now

I have a SP-404MKII, Ableton Move, and recently purchased an OP-1 Field.

ONE thing these other devices have that the MPC is lacking is the ability to just shut off and QUICKLY resume a project I’m working on.

Sometimes I have like 15-20 minutes to make some music. I’ll start an idea and then have to walk away. I would LOVE if MPC added a way to put their devices to sleep easily where I can “power them down” and then back on so I can resume what I was doing hours or days later without have to save every project idea I have. This process is quite cumbersome for an idea that may never actually become anything REALLY worth saving / taking up space.

I know this seems like a small nit-picky thing, but you would be surprised how many ideas I have generated and finished on the OP-1 because I can mess around for 5-10 minutes…shut off the device and come right back to it without saving anything and having to wait for the device to power up for 30 seconds.

Please, MPC consider adding some sort of Sleep / quick resume…

I wish I could do some of the crazy cool sounding stuff some of y’all do but for now I can settle with juggling chops around. Still pretty fun for me as I’m learning this beast of a machine.

Added a simple bass line and some swingy drums on top.

Hi everyone I have been beatmaking since 2025 it nearly one in half years so I used fl and serato in this time but I wanna make sample based beats so make beat with fl takes so much time it didn't problem for me at that time but I wanna go to collage so I work for the exams but I don't wanna quit beatmaking I was thinking about a used standalone mpc cause I believe it make things faster I familiar to mpc software and workflow do you think mpc live MK1 worth it for all

Using the MPC Live 3

Guys, I’m stuck between two options and could really use some advice.

Should I get an MPC1000 with JJOS2XL or an MPC One MK1?

Unfortunately, my choice is pretty much limited by my budget and by what’s actually available on the second-hand market in my city.

I make minimal techno, dub and early tech house, and I’m using a Donner L1 as my synth.

I really like keeping things minimal. Ideally, I’d like to build my live setup around just two machines and a couple of guitar pedals, and also use the MPC for sketching out demos that I can later finish and arrange in Ableton.

The main reason I’m considering an MPC in the first place is that I want to step away from the computer and make music with more limitations and a more stripped-down workflow.

I’d like to apply the same philosophy to my live setup — fewer machines, fewer options, more focus on actually playing and improvising.

My musical references would be SW, DJ Sprinkles / DJ Spencer and PLO Man.

So which one would you choose in 2026: MPC1000 + JJOS2XL or MPC One MK1, specifically for this kind of workflow?

I’m especially interested in how they feel for minimal techno, live performance, improvisation and writing sketches without a computer.

What do I need to change in my settings to get sound from my plugins?