In the BROWSER, select the ‘ Expansions’ tab on the left hand side of the screen to display a list of installed expansions. The BROWSER can be accessed via ‘ MENU > BROWSER’ alternatively, some MPCs have a dedicated BROWSE button and Force users can just hit the LOAD button. To load instruments from an installed expansion, you’ll need to use the BROWSER. Step 2: Previewing & LOADING Instruments in the BROWSER We’re now ready to load an instrument to this track. This adds a new blank keygroup track to the matrix: This will automatically assign a blank keygroup program to this track called Program 002 – in the next step we’re going to replace this blank keygroup program with one of the ready-made keygroup instruments from one of our expansions.įorce users should go to MATRIX and in the touchscreen hit the ‘ +’ icon and select a Keygroup track:

MPC users should go to MAIN, select an unused track and hit the KEYGROUP icon on the track row to set this as a KEYGROUP type track: The next step is to configure a track to load our keygroup instrument to. I’ll assume you’ve already installed one of our instrument expansions, but if you need help with this either refer to the PDF install guide that came with your expansion, or check out our Standalone MPC Expansion Installation Guide. We can even use them with sampled synth oscillators to create subtractive synthesizers capable of making any type of custom sounds we like.

We can use keygroup programs to produce realistic recreations of acoustic instruments and classic analog synths by recording (multisampling) many notes from the original instruments and mapping them across the MPC/Force pads (or across an attached keyboard). They use audio samples to create playable instruments in your MPC/Force. Keygroup instruments are built using standard MPC keygroup programs (XPM).

We have a large range of MPC instrument expansions on that provide you with additional playable instruments for all modern standalone MPCs and the Akai Force, and in this article we’re going to look at how to load and use these instruments.

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