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Under the hood of the MPC Live III's familiar form factor, this groovebox pushes the latest iteration of Akai's MPC3 OS to its most explosive creative reaches, boasting an 8-core processor and 8GB of RAM and you'll use every bit of it. Akai's engineered an evocative new method of expressivity that exceeds the detail and nuance of every groovebox to come before the MPC Live III, with which it debuts: MPCe performance pads. This 3D-sensing technology supports multi-axis interfacing with each pad, ensuring your every flourish and finger-drumming flex is fired with ferocious finesse.
Think of every pad as containing the X-Y-axis interfacing capabilities of previous MPCs, combining aftertouch-like qualities with assignable RGB-backlit quadrants, allowing you to morph through modulations, assign distinct elements to parts of each pad, and beyond. Plus, the inclusion of the Performance Touch Strip brings expansive user-customizable expression to every onboard, MIDI-connected, and virtual-instrument sound, from classic pitch-/mod-wheel bends to evocative automation.
As Akai's aural architrave for the MPC Live III, the supercharged processing power of MPC3 OS goes beyond expanding your workflow to include more of your favorite virtual and NKS instruments. With this next-gen groovebox, its cutting-edge OS unlocks a slew of Live III-exclusive firepower: Pro Reverb, EQ, CV Playgroup, Clip Matrix, Utility Plug, Super TS, and Pro Stems Separation. Across the newly integrated clip-launch production mode, these galvanizing tools level up every aspect of arranging and performing.
For DAW-less beat weavers, the CV Playgroup is the key to transforming your hybrid workflow, as this allows you to expand the 8-channel CV/Gate connections to transmit cycling and modulation signals such as LFOs or envelopes to Eurorack modules, synthesizers, drum machines, and any other compatible destination. Moreover, the immense customization of the four touch-capacitive knobs, 7-inch multi-touch screen, Performance Touch Strip, and MPCe pads includes everything on offer from CV Playgroup and the rest of the Live III-exclusive tool kit.
With the transformative power of the MPC3 OS, the MPC Live III was carefully constructed to balance interfacing, accessibility, and ergonomics, without compromising creativity or workflow fluidity. Current users of MPC3 OS and those familiar with its enhancements will be delighted to learn that the MPC Live III migrates the lion's share of the OS's beat crafting tools to the top portion of the instrument via methodically arranged yet intuitive shift-function controls. When you're not using the 16 buttons for the MPC Live III's searing step-sequencing capabilities, tools and attributes such as automation, step editing, track arming, pad-management elements, Q-Link configurations, and more are effortlessly and instantly accessed. And because the MPC Live III comes with its own studio monitors, high-quality playback is always within reach.
With the MPC's historic emphasis on tactility, the MPC Live III takes up the mantle of hands-on sound design at every turn of its series-defining design, adding to the workflow enhancements of its MPC3 OS-minded interface. The time previously spent on menu diving now lets you wield the full force of the MPC Live III's versatile multi-touch screenenter XYFX. In this mode, the screen becomes an X-Y pad that's deeply customizable, while preserving the interactivity to keep you inspired, moving, and in the groove. Effects are color-coded to differentiate beat-synchronized and manually controlled options, while flexible routing allows you to choose between tracks and stereo output pairs as the point of activation, letting you seamlessly move between global and track-specific performance possibilities.
On the sampling and sequencing front, Akai has spared no effort with the MPC Live III to ensure your sonic vision is brought to life in complete, prismatic power. Comprehensive trimming and chopping tools blend classic MPC flow with the modern producer's sample-fueled creativity, while four selectable banks of the four touch-capacitive Q-Link knobs mean your fine-tuned control over on-the-fly sequence and sample editing is more detailed, dynamic, and inspiring than ever. What's more, the MPC Live III introduces direct sampling from your iPhone or computer via USB-C connection, which combined with a rechargeable battery and a portability-minded chassis promises to preserve every moment of inspiration, no matter when, how, or where it strikes. With the step sequencer, exhaustive editing options span velocity, timing correction, triplet-based values, automation, nudging, and grid-locking parameters, to name a few the last of which is an especially powerful option to avoid the staleness that can accompany projects with copious quantization. In essence, you define your place in the pocket.
One look at the rear side of the MPC Live III tells you that Akai's engineers placed a premium on inclusivity, inspiration, and exploration, rewarding them all with equal aplomb. A quartet of 1/8-inch TRS CV/Gate jacks connect the classic to the contemporary, while the 2-in/2-out 5-pin MIDI ports expand interoperative possibilities to include untold combinations of MIDI-compatible instruments, controllers, effects, and more. Dual USB-A ports and a class-compliant USB-C port further augment the aural aperture of the MPC Live III, with the USB-C connection supporting immense, bidirectional functionality as an audio and MIDI interface, facilitating 24 and 32 channels of each, respectively. An onboard SD card reader provides extra storage for data, tracks, audio samples...
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