Akai Pro has announced that the MPC Software 1.8 update is now available. MPC Software comes with Akai's flagship MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio.
New Features:
- Non-destructive Chop: A flexible way to use parts of your samples without destructive editing. MPC v1.8 provides two types of non-destructive chop: per-sample chopping saves your slices into the sample file for use in other projects, and per-pad slicing uses different start/end points within each pad.
- Built-in Live Looper: Allows you to record, overdub, and manipulate audio in real time.
- Pad Perform Mode: Assign musical scales, modes, chords, and progressions to the pads for more creative performances.
- Vastly Improved Sample Edit, Chop Workflow:
- Audition pads from within your program in the sample editor.
- Sleaker trim, chop, and audition workflow.
- Live sample chop.
- Audio cue point audio preview.
- Record Audio Through Input Insert Effects: In the sampler and looper.
- Vintage Mode Emulation Can Be Used As An Insert Throughout The Program: Place different MPC sound on different pads.
- Non Destructive Sample Reverse Pad Parameter:
- Pad sample offset pad parameter.
- Plus many workflow enhancements, including one-touch sequence half/double, project preview, BPM calculation, an improved audio path, and much more.
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