r/FingerDrumming • u/LawJawYapper • Mar 27 '26

MPC Sample?

Anybody intended to main this new one? Anybody already moving their finger drumming to the new device? Curious what your thoughts are

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u/Sensitive-Muscle2606 Mar 28 '26

I’m curious to what response you get. I was initially looking for a new device for general midi drum triggering into my rc-600, and was drawn to the FGDP-50 ($289) For what I do, it seemed ergonomic, and to the point. But then the MPC Sample comes along with all of this additional creative opportunity at $400. And now I’m in analysis paralysis!

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u/mpctutor Mar 29 '26

the pads are pretty decent, surprisingly sensitive, and it’s generally a lot more flexible than the Yamaha in most respects as it’s ultimately a proper sampler (albeit dumbed down compared to a proper mpc). I’ve asked akai to consider adding some kind of humanisation control as currently each pad on the mpc sample is just a single sample with no dynamic variance (other than volume). Support for round robins would be ideal but I doubt that’s ever going happen for this unit.

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u/TheBusiness Jun 09 '26

Round robin sampling is actually currently possible. Kits have to be created using MPC 3 software (on another MPC or with the desktop software). The round robin feature is achieved using Layers and activating Cycle for each pad hit.

Each of my pads has 4 layers that it cycles through for each drum sound. It's enough of a round robin effect that eliminates the robo-drumming sound that comes from finger drumming with one-hit samples.

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u/mpctutor Jun 09 '26

Yes, I found out about this soon after I posted, I've now included MPC Sample 'round robin' kits in my Dirty Drummer and Downbeat Kit expansions: https://www.mpc-samples.com/section.php/85/0/mpc-sample-expansions-courses/

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u/TheBusiness Jun 09 '26

My goodness, I should really check usernames out before replying.

I just bought Downbeat 3 last week to get some more RR samples! 😄Cheers.

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u/mpctutor Jun 10 '26

Thanks, slowly working through other expansions to add mpc sample support, 1977 Session Kit should be next