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Amazing app for musicians
I think they have done an amazing job replicating the work flow of an MPC though a few more features would be good. It's a amazing start. The workflow so far is smooth and the sampling is very friendly and easy to use.
However there is a few things I'd like to see on the next update:
1. Linking pads together to you can play one pad at a time
2. Ability to zoom into waveform when cutting up samples
3. Being able to delete your own samples from within iMPC because I have played on it for a day cutting up samples and its taken up 700mb due to the .wav filesShow lessMolikx
Awesome - True portable MPC
I love this app, well done Akai. I'm a true MPC fan and own 4 of them plus the XR 20. This thing is insane for the money, if only it was available a few years back. This should be perfect for on the road and live gigs for triggering samples. The sampling from your own library is great...nice touch. Love it!Show lessRK-london
Almost perfect
Great App! Have been on it constant since purchase. Have rated four stars would have been five but would have liked more export options like separate tracks and an option to upload to Dropbox or something. Part from that amazing AppJamL1
Ok, but Not an MPC
EDIT: after downloading Tabletop, I'm updating my review. This app is much better with it since it provides solutions for its shortcomings. However, it's still missing rudimentary MPC features: chop, song mode (provided in Tabletop), and more than 4 tracks. It is missing other features that you take for granted in apps like this, like Dropbox support to manage samples.
It would be nice if you could load patterns into Tabletop that you create in the standalone version.
I must say that the sound quality is very good. However, it's a few updates away (hopefully) from being a real MPC.Show lessDavid C, NJ
Impc is one of the best music apps ever
I love this app. It's a mpc and it work like a mpc I love it. I see there some people's trying to knock the app it must be that they don't know how to use a mpc .so they write a bad review that's sad people. Real cats that have mess around with a mpc they will love this.. I didn't have to check the menu ,I just knew how to use it .so all you hater please slow down. Play with dj hero.....don't waste other people's time...Show lessbiglou1780
Not what I Expected
So I thought, Wow! an official Akai MPC app and found that looks we're deceiving shortly after committing to the purchase. I currently own Beatmaker2 which is my go to production app and in comparison I can't help but think Akai dropped the ball on this one. The plus side is that I was able to launch the app and get right to work but, felt limited as I was attempting to move forward. So I can't figure out to to edit samples after I sample and assign them. How do you chop on this thing ? Where's the create new sound option from the trim screen ? I thought the iMPC app would simplify things like how Beatmaker2 has but, isn't even on par with the 2000XL. All in all I guess this is a cool drum machine for the price but, for full on sample based production...Not recommended ! 1 sample bank is not enough...at least the MPC 60 had 2. No filters or any of the staple MPC parameters (attack,decay,note mute) no trim screen. The only thing MPC like about this app is appearance... Not worthy of the MPC title. The sequencer is about the only thing I can recognize as being effective.
App is cool, almost good but, far from great.
Here's hoping that future updates will add some much needed features to bring this app closer to being included in the MPC legacy.Show lessTheSupernova777
Boom!
Great job! I usually don t want to pay for apps, but this one rocks, first impression nearly perfect for me!Keza24
Loving it
Gotta agree with the announcements though they are annoying, they gotta....go plus could also do with some empty user slots for program's so don't have to edit the in built program's.....audiobus support is a must....overall a great app and well worth the money a must buy for anyone into composition as for the tabletop version it's a bit stripped down from the standalone app but gains midi editing in tabletop so still hot as hell ......nice one :)Show lessOkfosho
Kon
Certainly a nice looking app, I love the retro MPC styling.
It is a massive shame though that both Akai and Native instruments have such poor i-offerings considering they are big companies with big budgets, large R&D teams and the advantage of being market leaders with years of expertise in the field of drum/beat machines so should know what their customers want, need and expect.
These apps are blown out of the water by the likes of Beatmaker2 and NanoStudio - the latter of which was developed a couple of years ago by a ONE MAN TEAM!!!
Sometimes it feels like the big boys are deliberately holding back on technologies just to prolong their marketing plan over the coming year(s). This feeling goes for their hardware too.Show lessTweaker2323
Stop Lying About this App it
Stop Lying about this app the only thing you're doing is letting people know that you don't know how to use an mpc or any sampler for that matter.
some of you are saying that sample editing on this thing is easy and a breeze, stop lying, you can't even edit the sounds in the library, and you can't edit your own samples after the initial recording of them…. stop lying.!!!!
you cannot export audio from this app without loop tails so that you can correctly import and play the audio in another app………… so stop lying!!!!!!!
this app does not resample internally………… so stop lying !!!!!!!
this app does not automatically chop samples and assign them to the pads…………..so stop lying
and even if you don't care about auto chop like me and have been sampling way longer than auto chop
has existed you still can't edit samples (chop manually) without having to resample the same sample for every single slice. in other words if you sampled a 4 bar break and wanted to slice it up you'd have to sample it 4 times!!!!!! ………………………..so stop Lying !!!!!!!!
this app is not a fully functional mpc as blatantly, and falsely advertised ! …. so ……….JUST STOP LYING !!!!!!!!!!!!Show lessSamplist
