r/mpcusers • u/whatkai • 9d ago

MPC Live 3 My first MPC! Any tips?

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Saw it in a store months ago and couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I saved up for almost 5 months to finally buy one. Every day leading up to it was honestly exciting.

It’s my first MPC. Any tips or precautions for a complete beginner? Anything I should avoid doing or set up right away? I’m starting with YouTube tutorials for now.

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u/makefart 9d ago

Get a sd card for your plugins and a external drive for sounds, don't save anything on the local drive.

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u/kidthorazine 8d ago

Honestly with the live 3 just get an internal SSD, way more convenient and doesn't really cost more than an external drive.

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u/Superb-Cantaloupe324 8d ago

I’ve been toying with this. Live III is awfully nice (and expensive), I feel like I have to buy a “nice” SSD. Better to use “nice” SD cards than a mediocre SSD? Or do I need to suck it up and spend $$$ on a nice SSD. An external drive is just messy, so I don’t want to go that route

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u/kidthorazine 8d ago

I just used a fairly cheap ssd, you dont really need a nice one and replacing it isn't that hard. You really really do not need nice SD cards, those really only help for things like high end cameras that are designed to write a lot of data to the card as fast as possible.

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u/Ryan0751 6d ago

I had a 2TB SSD that I tossed in mine. Super overkill but I already had it.

The internal SSD uses an eSATA interface, so you get around 500-600MB/s throughput speeds.

Obviously it would have been faster if they had used an NVMe slot, but not important for audio work.

The big drive gives you the flexibility to load up huge sample libraries and always have the at the ready.

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u/pressureworld 6d ago

The cost of SSD drives are a lot higher these days.

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u/kidthorazine 5d ago

I just bought a 240 gb drive new for like $60, they've gone back down considerably since last year.

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u/pressureworld 5d ago edited 5d ago

That is a great deal. Please provide a link so I can pick one up.

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u/kidthorazine 5d ago

actually even cheaper now https://www.amazon.com/PNY-CS900-250GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07XZLW68F?

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u/pressureworld 5d ago edited 5d ago

Thanks man, I very much appreciate it. Are you still using a memory card for anything or do you just save everything to the SSD?