Michael, I live near Akai Professional's HQ. if you want to come visit and yell at them in person, I will drive you there and film it and my wife can bail us out of jail!

Always ready for my weekly therapy session ✌️

Gas Therapy is needed every week. This series saved me a lot of money🙏

I love my MPC, but your argument is completely valid. Nice work.

Discovered this channel today. Your videos are a must watch IMO, even for people who buy gear regularly. Trying to extract more value out of the tools you have using either ingenuity or free / cheap tools is an invaluable message that it worth constantly being reminded of. Well done.

Amazing… GAS is real and… therapy needed and people don’t know they need it. This is great stuff.

The best review of this product I’ve seen since it came out! Had me laughing and heavily agreeing with the points made! Thanks for this, now I can take it off of my wants list 😂

I just found this Channel and Gas therapy is my new favorite series. Thank you so much for your tips!

Discovered this channel today, and I absolutely love the informative and very real content. Can't watch this in bed with anyone sleeping beside you unless they like waking up to stifled and muffled laughter.

Oh My God, you had me in stitches...love it, keep the video's coming my friend :)

Fantastic video! This spoke to ALL of my frustrations with my MPC Live and then some. I was on the fence about selling it. No longer. It's gone. Thank you!

I really appreciate your rage at MPC One, whether it's genuine or amped for the video, you hit the nail on the head!

Excellent and unique content. We want more, thanks for your work and time 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

right video at the right time. highly appreciated! love the angry nerd style!

You are doing gods work! Thank you for showing me the way of plugins. You have changed my whole method for making music!

Love these so much Thank you again for all the awesome info. I'm having a blast using the plugins you recommend.

This is my new favorite channel!! Thanks for all the great videos!!

As a (quite satisfied) MPC-One owner I can say: honest review of the weak points of the device (akai should open their ears)!!! Would I replace it with an ipad/laptop? No ... for many other aspects/reasons. BTW keep going with this interesting channel.

Great series, this and Bad Gear is a joy to watch!

Michael, thanks for another fun and informative video.

Angry Music Gear Nerd is the BEST!! Way to bring it Michael, awesome!

Thanks! Great to have found your channel, I do have bouts of GAS and your breakdowns REALLY help!

Love your videos! Great work, keep at it please.

This is very enlightening. Subscribed!! Even though I got my MPC shoe box for $450 when it was first released. I’m happy with it.

Hilarious. U nailed it. It’s nearly the best all in one Groovebox. I’m optimistic with videos like this and other feature request of the community Akai will wake up and bring a kickass update. Really hoping cause if next update won’t deliver I might sell mine

Thanks! Your videos are really helping me get over my gas!

I own an MPC Live II. The workflow in Ableton is much easier and faster, but I have a hard time getting past all the options and starting to actually create music. The MPC kind of forces you to start laying down music. I also feel like the workflow forces you to use your ears more than your eyes. It’s a clunky workflow, but once it clicks for you, it just works. It isn’t for everybody, but I love it. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive, but that’s the case with a lot of my gear. Also, acting like drumming on the keyboard is the same as using the big and beautiful pads on the MPC is not realistic. The pads on my Live II are my favorite in the world. Overall, great video. I just wanted to nitpick a little. This channel is greatness. Even if I don’t care about the gear you review, I learn a lot from these videos.

I'm currently binging your content. Thanks again

This video was hilarious as an MPC Live owner you hit the nail on the head with a lot of my complaints about the unit in terms of its intuitiveness and the implementation of the Q links... they need to address Q link functionality in an update because they are vastly under utilised I feel.

Love your channel. Your work will help many to get out of the GAS Matrix.. It's a problem! Thank you!

First let me say that this review or rant was hilarious. Thank you for your view on this. I have been wanting to buy the MPC One for at least a yr. Listening to your take on this has changed my mind and to look for something else. Actually I was debating between this and an iPad because I already have a decent midi controller with 16 pads and 32 keys. I’m subscribing just because of this.

2nd time here on this channel. Love it. In this disposable age, with too much gear already out there, this floats my boat. I use old pedals, hacked and hand built devices, tape, old glitchy delays as loopers, use cassettes and mp3 players to store my samples. If I'm travelling light, I occasionally perform using just a laptop full of my edits and samples. Mixx DJ of Virtual DJ. I probably won't use a lot the software you share, I struggle with the laptops. Having said that I love the ethos and the possibilities. Keep it up.

This guy in the Akai boardroom would really put the cat amongst the pigeons 😂

Excellent video as always, Michael.

That was a hilarious ending! You are sincerely pissed off. Bad gear indeed! Like many here, I really love the MPC One. At the same time your video is great & valid!

This is why I’ve used an MPC Element as my controller and either set it for low power for the inexpensive MPC app on my phone OR the free MPC Beats software on my Mac for several years now. You COULD use another USB controller just to control all the knobs and faders (in my opinion). But what you explained is exactly why I sold my MPC 1000 years ago. Now I have much more versatility. Thank you again for the GAS therapy, Michael 🙌

somebody is in his feelings on this one 😆 i have to say the mpc worflow vs the mpc software / beats workflow is a lot diffrent. Me myself tried a few things after selling my mpc live for financial reasons. But nothing came even close to the feeling an mpc gives me. Not even the new mpc studio with that software your were talking about. Its truly something special about the mpc worklfow i cant even explain. After 2 years of making straight laptop music I've finally came back to the mpc-world with a new mpc one, and i have to say its really really satisfying working with it again. Great Video but i feel like it did not do justice to this great piece of gear. i mean, yeah its a rant but..there is a lot to love about this thing.

Thanks for this video king I really enjoyed your point of view BLESS UP

You are hilarious! Akai should hire you for product development!!!

Great review. As a long time user of the MPCs (2000xl, 10000 and 4000), I was shocked by the missing stuff on the Live/One.

Your analogies are sublime

A big Wow! Great video. You made my day Michael, thanks a lot!

This one hurts, because I bought one as well and I hate it, but love it as well 😂 you really nailed it!

Thank you for this incredible insight. 🔥🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏

I love you so much, im a fan for life already. lol

Thank you for being the only Honest music hardware reviewer on the internet

I was going to buy a mpc one, the faults you called out would piss me off to no end. Thank you for saving me a lot of time and money

Kudos, a hilarious and most informative vid!

This channel is absolutely brilliant. I've been getting some more advanced recording and synth stuff lately and even though I luckily haven't had any bad buys yet, I've been looking to integrate my Surface Pro touchscreen (it's basically an iPad running Windows 11) into my live jams more. Absolutely right on the question 'why not just have a slider on your touchscreen and save a hand?'. Thank you for the many awesome plugin and software recommendations!!

I was just about to buy a MPC One tomorrow. You totally changed my mind. Thanks, dude 🤘

Making beats with one hand on the MPC one is priceless for me

LoooL that ending line! Awesome videos!

I love how this channel is evolving

Bro´s dropping some serious truth bombs.

OMG i love you dude. Great review.

Love this series :D

AMGN: Angry Musical Gear Nerd! Love it!!

"And I guess we all know the story after that..." - savage, lol You killed it Michael! Great (based) little rant. Cured my hardware mpc GAS by pointing out some stuff that nobody else did in a bunch of videos, like clunky af file management. Never noticed the inconsistency in labelling functions either, stuff like that irks me! Reframing it as a budget single-purpose PC (with room for improvement) VS thinking mpc one is a "good deal" just because of the price anchor of its bigger brothers? Makes a ton of sense. (The retro edition DOES look so cool though lol )

As someone who has gone through a LOT of hardware in the pursuit of the perfect all-in-one dawless groovebox, I'll start by saying that I absolutely love the MPC One - *and* I love your channel too! I 100% agree with you about the lack of battery and angled surface being clear design flaws and it would have been lovely to be able to not have to bring the power cord with you all the time. That said, I think you didn't spend enough time with either the MPC One or MPC Beats to truly appreciate the difference in workflow speed between the two. It's literally night and day. No, those Ctrl+2 shortcuts on the keyboard aren't even close because the rest of it is completely off. You are required to scroll and click all the time on the computer software. Here are some examples of how fast the MPC One is: - Hit Dub Record while playing a sequence and you can jam things in live, with velocity sensitivity and even aftertouch. The pads are surprisingly playable on any type of instrument sound (guitar, strings, piano, drums, etc). - While a sequence is playing, hold Erase and press down on a pad you want to remove and it will remove the hits on that pad while you hold it down. - Switch back between Main and Program Edit and it will remember where you were, which preference was focused. This means you can quickly tweak a sound parameter, go into Main to change the sequence or start point of a sequence to zoom in on the area you want to "fix", and then go back to editing the parameter, all without even touching the mouse. Anyone who is used to keyboard shortcuts vs mouse gestures will know how much of a difference this makes. - Hold Main and press a pad to select a track/program. - Double press on Note Repeat to turn on/off the (excellent) arp. - Tap a synth parameter and twist the main knob with the other hand - it's so much quicker *and* more precise than doing the equivalent with the mouse. Try to micro edit the faders in the mixer on MPC Beats, it's next to impossible! - Hold down Shift and you immediately see if the Automation button is yellow (off) or red (on). Tap it to toggle. No need for the touch screen. - Configure the q-links to be Project wide for some amazing live performance jamming with your favorite parameters for that particular project. - Double tap Main to get into the sequencer, hit a pad corresponding to a note you want to tweak, and twist the main knob to nudge the notes, or edit their length, transposition, etc. With all this said, I agree the UX isn't perfect and there's a lot of QOL fixes I'd like to see, such as the ability to copy/move projects, reorder tracks and sequences, configure the mostly useless + and - buttons into something better, like Mute/Solo, or Prev/Next Track, or maybe octave up/down. But even with its design flaws, it's easily the most productive, tactile daw replacement out there today. You mentioned the MC-101, and that is truly a UX joke in comparison. It's supposed to be portable, but you end up being so frustrated with using it due to all the things that slow you down, there's literally no point in using it. The presets are lovely, but that's about it. It's a terrible music making device. The MPC One is easily one of the best to come out so far. In *my* opinion! 😉🎶

Michael, forget about the free MPC One. I want a free OP-1 field.😂

Every comment you made is totally valid and true - thanks man!

Thank you! This ended my GAS for the MPC One. 😃

"Fancy shoe box" 🤣You make some great valid points! Great channel btw! 🙌

You made some really good points 💯

Great video!!!

Absolutely brilliant! MPC Beats looks great too!

I always enjoy your videos. Quite entertaining. I’m on therapy myself :-)

Think I love you. Great points, and fantastic money saving advice ; )

This was brutal. I love it.

Thank you very much, you have opened my eyes.

I think the height could be for heat dissapation. The MPC does pick up some heat especially if you don't leave it on a table. I know the live II gets hot in the left side of the screen.

your very funny and make really great points but I love this damn thing it's so much fun

Well needed 😌. Thanks

🤣🙌 You are a Genius haha i really like your videos!!! Some much fun to watch (all of them) And of course i learned a lot from your videos. I sold my MPC live 2 after a few weeks and have been using BeatMaker iii on my iPad ever since. So much better and more compact ❤️

Enjoyed your video, I owned an original live and found that I never developed the muscle memory or really gelled with it without ever thinking it might be the product design. I have created a lot more with the more limited digitakt.

it is amazing) Thanks for the video. I had a great laugh during the file transfer part 😹

you sir are a legend!

Absolutely brilliant as always (and 😂)

This guy makes great vids ! .

I saw the KISS sticker on your laptop and knew right then and there you understand....GAS!

Just sold my live 2 retro edition, as to I found myself defaulting back to Serato sampler and Logic Pro X, (which I already had installed) and I dont regret it one bit glad I got my money back!

DAAAMMMNNN 🤣👍 Scathing! I love it!!!

I bought a MPC Live 2 last year and sold it because of the workflow, I was wrestling with it a lot. Since I came from PC and wanted to go daw-less I tought it would be the best choise. Now I have a TR-8S and MC707 from Roland and I like it very much. It's just not there yet. I'm testing out all sorts of Opensource sofware and stuff, but it takes sooo much time. (Got a Zynthian, which is awesome)

You made alot of valid points

Brilliant mate

I love the Angry Music Hardware Nerd

This is the content I wish I had before I bought the MPC Live which im thinking of selling. But I probably needed to buy it and then watch this afterwards. Its a relief to find a channel like this after all the bullshit hardware pusher musical artists on You Tube.

After watching this video and listening to what you've said, I think I'll stick with my old vintage MPCs. They do the job anyhow and if I want to try the new MPC workflow and get those sounds I can just use MPC Beats with my laptop. You've sold me on giving it a try lol

Great video! Subscribed! 😍

Please do a video for the OP-1 substitute! Your videos are really good! Already saved me tons of money!!!

Must say, I still have and still love my MPC1000 that I bought from new back in 2006 : ) with JJos is is still useful today!

The channel we didn’t ask for , but the channel we all needed - thank god for you

Came for the music advice, stayed for the righteous rant! If musicians spend top dollar, we deserve top quality!

I love your videos!!!!

As much as I love my MPC ONE I think you make some solid points(like file management), that being said, I disagree on some of the points… I think the ONE is the most game changing MPC ever made, as it functionality and price point give users so much and I don’t think a budget PC, pad controller and audio/ midi interface are really that comparable nor do they zip up into such a nice package. You can do it, but it’s a lot of wires, set up and work arounds. And you’re not saving much money unless you already have the gear required sitting around, not to mention once you get into midi… yer gunna have some trouble setting up a clock that actually keeps time with all that junk. I also really like the way Q-links are set up and feel they really shine once you get out of screen mode and into project mode and I haven’t the slightest clue how you can set up midi knobs to control multiple parameters that can be toggled in the same project. I love what your doing though, but let’s be honest… you ain’t tossin NONE of that gear.

Thank you very entertaining but so informative i appreciate that

Scathing assessment 😂😂😂 from the outside looking in I can't argue with any points made lol

Hilariously great 😊

Thank you sir!

You are right on the file management the constant crashing in certain situations but Workflow is damn fast if you know what you’re doing. I believe if an mpc was bulletproof it would cost 4000 very out of reach for the poor and a good pc is still 1200 so for 800 fully capable of producing a full song I think it’s allrigh.