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  • ilan1000ilan1000

    no, no and ... no.

    Akai Professional MPX8Published on 07/28/14 at 18:11
    (This content has been automatically translated from French)
    nice one point the editor for mac sucks too ...

    UTILIZATION

    not disconnected the Velocitee pads ...
    Unable to load anything other than wav ...
    Unable to load a wav over 30 mo ...

    SOUNDS

    breath than on the seaside ..

    OVERALL OPINION

    how akai can leave a rigid machine why this stupid limitation of 30 mo?
    zero, sucks, no, go your way!
  • Nunshak-records Germain GuyotNunshak-records Germain Guyot

    Mouai flat

    Akai Professional MPX8Published on 06/18/14 at 17:35
    (This content has been automatically translated from French)
    See above

    UTILIZATION

    See above

    SOUNDS

    Great sound quality is lost when comparing the same sample played in the computer and it played once in the 8 mpx we are well aware that there is not.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I use it for 6 months, I bought it to trigger some samples on stage.
    Once the sauce in terms of sound it makes the job for small interventions, the big downside is that once during the balance by turning it did not find the sounds by putting a format error " invalid "while in rehearsals AC worked great, I tried everything, I resigned off telling me that I will go to the concert.
    I relight amount on stage and the miracle sounds are loaded ... Unreliable…
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    See above

    UTILIZATION

    See above

    SOUNDS

    Great sound quality is lost when comparing the same sample played in the computer and it played once in the 8 mpx we are well aware that there is not.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I use it for 6 months, I bought it to trigger some samples on stage.
    Once the sauce in terms of sound it makes the job for small interventions, the big downside is that once during the balance by turning it did not find the sounds by putting a format error " invalid "while in rehearsals AC worked great, I tried everything, I resigned off telling me that I will go to the concert.
    I relight amount on stage and the miracle sounds are loaded ... Unreliable and scary if one makes them indispensable.

    When you play or triggers a live sound on one or more pads things are going pretty well, but huge downside, when the LP function is used which makes the sample looping, there is a rhythmic shift when it triggers several at time.
    I've done my curls using locators to split or even tested with ready-made loops, although the trigger has ensured all along but when you let it run a bit from 1mn ca ca turns bizarre and shifts of worse ...

    Regardless of the price of a machine, it is not reliable.
    It is little expensive but also dangerous on stage knowing that at least 20 or 30 seconds to wait for loading a sample of a minute (a ambiance for example).
    We must therefore anticipate loading samples.

    In short I'm looking for another machine to trigger my little things and noise intro.
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  • illogikillogik

    Great fun / Unusable live

    Akai Professional MPX8Published on 02/18/14 at 07:48
    This is a sample player.
    You load the samples on an SD card, the machine reads them. It's simple, but that is exactly what I needed for me not lugging a computer on stage.
    It could have been awesome BUT: the samples are played louder or softer depending on the strength of your hits on the pads, which is cool to have fun, simulate a drum ... but UNUSABLE to read samples in live situations.

    I was hoping Akai adds a feature to disable the pad sensitivity, but their "technical representative" told me that it was not in the agenda.

    UTILIZATION

    Very simple. No need for the manual.
    It is easy to have fun with.

    SOUNDS

    Transparent. No problem.
    Warning: unbalanced jack ou…
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    This is a sample player.
    You load the samples on an SD card, the machine reads them. It's simple, but that is exactly what I needed for me not lugging a computer on stage.
    It could have been awesome BUT: the samples are played louder or softer depending on the strength of your hits on the pads, which is cool to have fun, simulate a drum ... but UNUSABLE to read samples in live situations.

    I was hoping Akai adds a feature to disable the pad sensitivity, but their "technical representative" told me that it was not in the agenda.

    UTILIZATION

    Very simple. No need for the manual.
    It is easy to have fun with.

    SOUNDS

    Transparent. No problem.
    Warning: unbalanced jack output so = ​​You need 2 DIs for use on stage!

    OVERALL OPINION

    I used it for 4 months.

    THE BIG PROBLEM:
    No option to disable the pad sensitivity.
    Specifically, in live situations, when I trigger a sample (2 or 3 times per song, at the very most): I never know if the volume is going to be too loud or not loud enough because it depends on the way I hit the pads (which varies! because no, I'm not a machine!).

    Result: the sample is either too loud or not loud enough. Working with the sound engineer for 1 hour will not change anything because the volume varies despite all my efforts to be as regular as possible.
    = The sound engineer goes crazy.
    = The MPX8 stays sleeping in the closet, I no longer use it. And I don't recommend it to anyone as long as Akai does not provide a firmware update in order to have the possibility to play samples at fixed volume. (Which is not going to happen according to J. Sandeen, their "Technical representative")
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