AKAI Professional MPX8

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AKAI Professional MPX8
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MIDI triggering is very unreliable.
karaolos 04.12.2018
I was using this to manually trigger vocal samples during live performance. There is no way to set the trigger volume on 100% always, but other than that it works fine in that application.

When using an external sequencer to trigger samples via MIDI, the MPX8 does not deliver. When 2 or more samples are sequenced at the same time, the triggering is very unreliable to the point that it is unusable. i.e. Only one of the assigned samples gets triggered.
There are no sample choke groups you can setup - I understand that this is in the specs when you look for it, but it should have been clearly stated.

Overall this sample player is performing very poorly and AKAI does not seem to care enough to fix bugs via firmware update.
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Avoid this product
FusionE 16.04.2021
Seems like it would be hard to get something so simple, so wrong. This just doesn't work as its supposed to. I've been using akai samplers since the 90's with ease. Once I finally got the samples to actually load (4+hrs of re-editing samples, re-formatting drives and wondering why its inserting buzz noises and other samples at the end of samples) set it up in the studio, worked fine. Turned it back on next day, only plays about 1esc of every sample no matter what setting its on and couldn't get the kits to save on any re-formatted SD card, again! Pure headache for such a simple product. Avoid at all costs...
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Cannot support SD card higher than 512 MB, huge latency, sounds very bad
Anonymous 07.06.2023
I planned to use it live to play samples or instrumental track. But it can't support any of the file that I tried to play, the latency is obvious, the sound is bad. You can basically do nothing with this :/
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