It’s a shame the screen doesn’t either tuck itself away, or even detach for safe storage. the ones not assigned to a Q-Link).Īs you can probably see, when flattened, the large 10.1″ screen does poke out of the back of the MPCX which has led to people wondering how easy it will be to break it during transport. On the Live and Touch, you are required to use the touchscreen to select certain parameters (i.e. One of the interesting things that have been pointed out is that the MPC X, unlike the MPC Live and MPC Touch, has the traditional 4-cursor key pad for navigation, which will appeal to people who wish to use the touchscreen purely for viewing. Was this dropped, or just missing from the specs? It seems that wireless support and Ableton Link will be coming in a future update. Interestingly the original FCC leaks showed us that the main board being used in these MPCs supports wireless and bluetooth (and ultimately that is why the test reports needed to be submitted to the FCC in the first place), but so far there’s no mention of wireless support. When it comes to storage we’ve got a 2.5″ SATA port for HDD or SSD drives, SD card slot and USB ports for removable media and drives, on top of the 16GB built in, so pretty much all bases covered.
We’ve even got CV/Gate outputs for analogue synth control. As you can see there’s lots of input and output options, with 8 1/4″ outputs, turntable connectors and mic inputs, 4 MIDI outs and the USB ports can also be used for MIDI over USB.
The MPC world is buzzing this morning as details have now been official released for the two new standalone MPCs from Akai – MPC X and MPC Live.
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