MPC Hacks

Plugins and tools for standalone Akai MPCs running the Hakai firmware.

Overcast

Overcast

Mutable Instruments Clouds with the Parasites firmware as an MPC insert effect: six modes, envelopes, LFOs and a modulation matrix.

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Glass Spheres

A random sampler after Mutable Instruments Marbles: random gates, melodies and deja vu loops that play your tracks over MIDI or gear over CV.

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MPC Link

Your computer's folders in your MPC's browser, over the network. Load samples and save projects without controller mode.

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What you need

These hacks run on the first-generation standalone MPCs and the Force (MPC Live / Live II, One, X, Key 61, Force) modded with the Hakai firmware, which gives you root access over SSH. A stock MPC can't install them. Developed and tested on an MPC X with MPC OS 3.9.1.

The plugins are best installed through the MPC VST Plugin Catalog: download them there or install them right from the MPC with its Plugin Manager. Every project's page also links its GitHub releases as the alternative. Installing plugins this way is unofficial: back up your projects, use at your own risk.

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