There’s also only limited spare storage space available which often leads to people deleting the factory content which, based on some reports on social media, can make the MPC unstable. This means you cannot easily transfer content to this disk, nor can you access any content already stored on it making it impractical to back up your work or to continue working on standalone projects in controller mode. The biggest issue when using the internal drive for storing your own content is that it is completely invisible when you connect your MPC to your computer.

Akai’s sound library and demo projects), all user-made plugin presets and custom MIDI progressions and also contains a folder called ‘MPC Documents’ that can be used to store your own projects. This houses all the factory content (i.e. The Problem with the Internal Factory DriveĪll MPCs feature a built-in internal drive which is actually just a standard micro SD card attached directly to the internal board. In this article I’m going to look at the pros and cons of all these disk options including some speed tests to see which type of disk performs the best. The current range of standalone MPCs (MPC X, MPC Key 61, MPC Live I & II and the MPC One) & the Akai Force have plenty of options when it comes to storage, with built-in ‘factory’ disk and support for USB drives, SD card and on some models, an optional internal SATA drive.

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