How To Update MPC 2.10 Firmware (Get Synths To Work For MPC One, Live, Live 2 and X)

did you just update your mpc standalone device and get this screen well in this video i'm going to show you how to properly update your mpc standalone device so you can go ahead and use the new synths and the npc 2.10 update check it out what's up everyone my name is matthew stratton on this channel i'll do setup videos tutorials and overviews just like this one if you're new to the channel consider subscribing so this is going to be a two-step process so go ahead and make sure you do check the description of this video for timestamps so if you already updated your npc and you just need the content that's going to be time stamped in the description of this video so the first step is going to be to update your mpc i'm using the mpc live one in this example because you can use any of the new npcs so you can use the mpc live mk1 the npc one the nbc x or the mpc live 2 to update to the 2.10 firmware the first step is to actually update your npc so i want to show you how to update your mpc with a usb cable so if you look in front of me i got my mpc live there's a usb cable that came with it coming out of the mpc live going into my computer this is just a dongle for the computer so basically i got a cable going from my mpc to my computer the next thing to do is to go to akaipro.com once on akaipro.com you can sign in and find everything that way but in reality you don't have to sign in once you're on the akai pro website go ahead and go to products go to npc series and then click on npc hardware now it doesn't matter which of these that you actually pick to be completely honest with you so i'm going to pick the retro edition here of the npc now you can see we got different downloads right on the front so you can see we got the mac pc and then you got your usb dongle that you can use i'm going to click pc okay you can see automatically the firmware update installer starts to download now you can see in my downloads folder i do have this particular npc 2.10 update when so i'm going to double click on that once i double click on this i get this update npc button that i can press so before i actually press that i need to go into update mode on my mpc standalone device so you can see i have a blank project i'm going to go to menu and then right here is the settings once you're in the settings if you press shift you get a little update button i'm going to press update now it's going to ask if you're sure you want to restart the npc in update mode i'm sure so i'm going to go ahead and press update so now that the mpc is in update mode i can go to my computer and press update mpc okay and it's just going to transfer to update and install the update on the npc standalone device and once you start the update make sure you do not disconnect your npc or turn off your mpc so when it's done it's actually going to say done on the computer and then i can click done it's just going to close down the updater and then your mpc standalone device is going to restart now if it restarts and it gives you this screen that's because we did not install our content for the synthesizers the mpc 2.10 update has four new synthesizers that we can use in standalone but the content for these synthesizers needs to be downloaded separately and put on an external storage device so we can actually use these synthesizers in standalone mode it is simple enough to fix this whether you're using a mpc one or an x or the live or the live 2 just take an sd card or usb drive something to that effect plug that into your computer so now that that's plugged into the computer i can go ahead and download the actual content but if you look on this page where we downloaded the firmware you can see that it doesn't actually have the content but if we go to downloads now right here it says npc 2.10 synth content installer click that it's going to start downloading that once that's done downloading go to your download folder and then you get the content right here now on windows i can right click this and then i can actually press extract all and click extract once that's done extracting go into the synth content folder here so i'm just going to double click on that go into there we got this other folder i'm going to double click into that and then we got our install files here now i'm concerned about this folder that says synth so what i'm going to do is very simple so this is the sense folder all i'm going to do is click on it drag it and drop it in to my sd card it's going to transfer that from my computer to the root folder of my sd card just to recap you only need to copy the folder that's called synths copy that folder from the download into the root folder of your sd card or usb drive once that's done go ahead and eject your sd card now i can take this sd card and plug it into my mpc now i'm going to turn on my mpc going to go into an empty project once in an empty project i'm going to tap the plugin icon right there i'm going to select any one of these plugins alright so so you can see i have hype melotron selena and then we're gonna see our odyssey right there so i can load these up all right i just loaded the melodron if i go to program edit we can see that that is right there all right and we're able to play it if you're finding value in this video remember to give it a thumbs up below it's going to help the video get seen by those who need to see this i appreciate you for doing that let's get back into it all right so everything should be working fine here's a quick tip for you guys that have an ssd or a sata device inside of your mpc so that's the actual drive that you can install inside the mpc so if you go to menu click on the microchip go into controller mode you can actually have access to your hard drive that you installed onto your npc and i can see that it shows up right here here's my npc ssd drive so what i can do is actually take this synth folder and put it inside of my ssd once you go ahead and do that make sure that you safely ejected all of your drives that you have connected to your mpc and then you can take it out of controller mode by pressing standalone and just to show you i don't have anything connected i took my sd card out and i just have my ssd in here right now so if you check it out i don't have anything but my ssd and then my sense folder is right there if i go to main go to my plugins i can actually load up all the different scents that we have access to in the 2.10 update i hope you enjoyed this video remember to give it a thumbs up below go ahead and click or tap the screen right there to see another video from my channel i appreciate you for watching my name is matthew continue to create music and we'll talk soon

Channel: Matthew Stratton

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Length: 7min 20sec (440 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 21 2021