I've been making music primarily on PC for at least two decades, mostly using Renoise as my DAW. Towards the end of March of this year, I decided to go ahead and get an MPC One in hopes to spice up my recording artistry. I bought the unit before Akai raised the retail price a hundred dollars. The new price is still totally worth it though. Especially after their massive 2.10 system upgrade which packs the MPC One with even more Synth and Effect plugins to choose from.The learning process has been super easy. What I quickly found out, is that when you become an owner of an Akai MPC, you're instantly accepted into the worldwide club of MPC enthusiasts...kind of like the phenomenon of owning a Harley or Corvette, all of a sudden you're 'in' and everyone is happy to help you out. The MPC enthusiasts make tons of helpful tutorial and tips videos on YouTube, and not only that, any of the videos that apply to the workflow of the X and Live models will also apply to learning the One as the One packs the same exact features as far as production workflow. So between the countless MPC One, X, and Live tutorial videos, you'll be able to find plenty of great teachers free of charge. There's also a reasonably priced MPC bible that is supposedly to be the go to print resource to learn from and reference when needed, though I still haven't purchased this yet.The sound quality is crystal clear. Definitely pro quality. I uploaded tracks I had made with my One to the Free Music Archive and a couple of them ended up being smash hits and even ended up being used as background music in other people's videos and multimedia projects. This box has what it takes to create professional quality music that people will want to listen to and share.There are a couple 'bugs' I ran into while using my One, for instance, my unit happens to have the Q-Panel bug and I had to switch off my q panel monitor... and there was a couple times when things got buggy in the recording process... but that's when you just simply make sure your project is saved and then load the project up again and the bugs are gone. These issues I won't hold against Akai as they'll most likely iron out these issues over time. Any of the bugs I may have come across in the six months using it so far aren't the kind that will screw up any recordings I make with it.Speaking of the six months of owning it so far... this whole time I haven't opened or used my computer DAW for any of my compositions. With the One, I can record all my guitars and vocals right into the unit and then produce from there. I even find the hardware limitations of four effect slots for each channel inspiring. On the PC I'm used to having as many effects slots as my PC can handle, but the One's effect limitations cause me to think about the production more and I ended up learning a thing or two in the process.The effects are top notch as are the synth plug-ins. It comes with plenty of drum kits and instrument samples to use. I enjoy the F9 expansion it comes with. Probably won't invest in more expansions and just make my own, but it's nice that there are plenty of third-party expansions one can buy for their MPC to beef up their sound and instrument palette.The unit is built nicely and pads feel great. I love the expressiveness of the sensitivities of the pads. I'm finding out that I'll never want to program in another bass line when I can simply record it by playing it with way more expression by using the pads. All the ports feel sturdy. I love that it has an SD slot so I can expand the storage. Tracks save at a decent speed when saving to the SD card.Might update this review later, but so far, all in all, I'm madly in love with my MPC One. It's a great little all-in-one machine. I had originally planned to buy it to enhance my studio, but the thing quickly ended up becoming my studio altogether. Love it. Definitely will stick with MPC for now on.

I'm not a "beat maker," but I did want some kind of song creation tool that didn't require me to use my computer and DAW. So, I've tried various options. The MPC One comes about as close as I can imagine for a complete song creation tool that is much more hands one than a computer and mouse. The touch screen is surprisingly great and the workflow, though complex, is actually layed out very well. I was inclined to give it a four star because Akai has terrible Inonexistent?) customer support, but this unit itself deserves a five.Be careful about buying any additional software or sounds from Akai. Their website sells "expansion packs" which seem like they will work on your MPC standalone machine. Many of them do not, at all. They only work with the computer software that comes with the MPC--in other words you have to be connected to your computer and use their dedicated software to use them as expansions. Also, after buying more than $100 of extra sounds from Akai, and purchasing the right to download the sounds for up to a year, the next time I logged in, their website said I'd made no previous purchases (despite what my bank statement says). I contacted Akai about it and.... crickets. That was a good week ago. Very disappointing. Won't get fooled again.Anyway, steer far and wide from buying anything additional from Akai, but the MPC One is really a great investment.

I wanted to buy a mpc one for quite sometime but was always slightly intimidated by it for some reason. As a owner of many other groove boxes, the mpc one definitely has the easiest and most versatile work flow for me. The new pay software is very good and has already had some very reasonable sales. The software synths mix very well with expensive analog equipment and it’s a killer brain sequencer.Very inspirational and intuitive instrument! It’s by far the best way create a non computer workflow.

AMAZING? YES! YES! YES! Easy to use? NOPE. All I can say is watch YouTube tutorials. I am a pretty good musician. But - this thing is difficult to understand at first. There is no instruction manual or tutorials. There's a lot of workflows to take into consideration when making music with this thing. YouTube everything, bro. I LOVE this thing - but in the 3 months I have had it, I doubt if I have achieved more than 1% of this thing's capacity. Good luck.

Great item. I love the Akai products. This particular item just wasn’t for me at the time. Retuned it to Amazon and they took forever, holding my refund money for almost a MONTH! Horrible. I never ever had a refund from them take that long.

The MPC One is a beast. If you have the money, and wonder if it's worth it.. I say YES. Once you get used to it, and figure out what it can do, it's fast. You'll be making beats faster than with any other hardware or even software. If you can afford the live 2, and want the battery, speakers, and internal hard drive, then grab that. If those extra perks won't help you, or if you can't afford the live 2, then just get this MPC One and grow from there. I paired mine with an MPK Mini keyboard to play the included electric piano and synthesizers, making it more than just a sampler, but a self contained instrument all in a portable setup I can carry in a backpack.

Die Akai MPC One hat mich auf ganzer Linie überzeugt. Als kompakte, eigenständige Musikproduktionszentrale bietet sie alles, was man für kreative Projekte braucht. Besonders beeindruckend ist das 7-Zoll-Multi-Touch-Display, das zusammen mit den 16 anschlagdynamischen RGB-Pads einen intuitiven und flüssigen Workflow ermöglicht.Die Verarbeitungsqualität ist erstklassig, und trotz ihrer kompakten Größe (272 x 272 x 53 mm) fühlt sich die MPC One absolut robust an. Die Hardware überzeugt mit einer Vielzahl von Anschlüssen: Stereo-Eingang/-Ausgang, MIDI In/Out, USB-Anschlüsse und sogar acht CV/Gate-Ausgänge, die perfekt in ein modulares Setup integriert werden können.Die mitgelieferte Soundbibliothek, die dank Synth-Engines wie Electric, Tubesynth und Bassline sowie der AIR FX Suite keine Wünsche offenlässt. Hiermit lassen sich beeindruckende Klänge erzeugen und professionell abmischen. Zwar ist der interne Speicher von 4 GB (davon 2 GB nutzbar) etwas knapp bemessen, aber dank der Möglichkeit, über SD-Karten zu erweitern, ist das kein großes Manko.Für den Preis bietet die MPC One ein unschlagbares Gesamtpaket. Sie ist ideal für alle, die sich die klassische MPC-Erfahrung in einem modernen, kompakten und dennoch leistungsstarken Gerät wünschen. Absolute Kaufempfehlung!

Sicuramente non è uno strumento per principianti , anche se sembra intuitivo ha un sacco di funzioni nascoste .Un po' scomoda la necessità di collegare un sd esterna per caricare i sample.Altro punto negativo la mancanza di un manuale o magari video corso integrato.Tolto questo strumento davvero bello e interessante che ancora devo scoprire al 100% , spero che mi regalerà soddisfazioni.

I'm loving this machine but thank God for YouTube. I wouldn't have stood a chance of setting it all up without help videos as the instructions are vague and non existent. Fantastic groove machine / sampler though.

Maquetter, trouver des idées et produireJe souhaité du DAWless, j'ai hésité entre Maschine+ et AKAI, le prix ma fait choisir la MPC ONE et je en suis satisfait d'autant plus que sur internet certain lui reprochait de pas être facile a prendre en main, je doit dire que je n'ai rencontrer aucune difficulté, c'est un produit très accessible mais comme tout autre produit aussi complet il faut passé un peut de temps pour apprivoisé l'appareil , lire un peut la notice et chercher quelques tuto sur youtube. Je conseille les tutos de (Audiorial) très bien pour débuter et être vite opérationnel ainsi que le Discord: MPC Francophone (MPC X / LIVE / KEY / ONE)

I haven't had my MPC One very long yet, but it's my favourite piece of electronic music gear that I've ever touched.Many years ago, I borrowed my friend's MC-505, and I found it fairly intuitive and inspiring. I longed to get one one day, but when the time came, I could only find an RM1x in my budget. I made some songs on it, but I really didn't enjoy the workflow at all, and had trouble finding sounds I would like. I ended up selling it and stopping electronic-based music production.I've been listening to a lot of Skinny Puppy again lately, and started looking at some modern options for groovebox-type gear. I looked at a lot of videos and reviews, and nothing really stood out as an all-in-one machine that would do what I want. Someone on reddit suggested the MPC One, which somehow had escaped my research (might be that I didn't want the 4x4 pad style at the time). I started watching videos and was blown away at what I was seeing. It seemed like a literal dream machine - and far cheaper than many other options!I got the thing and hooked it up and within minutes was figuring out my way around the basics and coming up with some test tracks. Everything works amazingly well, and it's mostly pretty intuitive. But it's also very powerful, and I'm still discovering new things every time I work with it. Sampling in clips from public domain movies, for example, is very easy. Editing and processing the waveforms, assigning to pads, etc. It's all just so easy. The MPC just gets out of the way and lets you create! And it sounds awesome.I'm not much of a computer guy, so doing everything in standalone was my hope, and the MPC One makes that dream come true. But if you are a computer guy, it allows to export all tracks as individual stems for use in any DAW; further to that, it integrates nicely with computers in general. The latest firmwares also include multi-MIDI so you can connect up a lot of devices and use the MPC as a central hub, in a sense.I was lucky to get this when it was on sale at $880, but it's easily worth more than that. Akai is doing the world a favour by keeping the price on these devices as low as they do.