Marco Polo's latest Akai MPC Expansion
We’re pretty excited to be exclusive partners with Marco Polo on his latest self-released Akai MPC Expansion. Previously, Marco has distributed these expansions through Akai, but he’s doing something new with his Crate Classics Vol. 1 Expansion: direct to consumer. Crate Classics Vol. 1 is a boom bap production kit built from the ground up on Marco Polo’s MPC. Every day for a month, Marco made a new beat from scratch and turned it into a 16-pad program: drums, bass, chops, chords, FX and vocals, all mapped and ready to play the second you load it. 25 days, 25 beats, 25 kits. The drums are Marco’s. The bass, chords, leads and FX were played and recorded from his Roland Juno-106, Moog Model D, Moog Matriarch and Moog Grandmother, then processed in the box. No stock presets. You also get his original MPC project folders, so you can open the actual sessions and see how the kits are mapped, how the sequences are arranged and how each demo came together. Swap a kick, re-chop a loop, lift a pattern into your own project, or strip a demo down and flip it your way. Not on an MPC? All 400 WAV samples drop straight into any DAW or drum machine. Here are the specs: The expansion contains: 25 Drum Programs (16 pads each, one full kit per beat) 25 Sequences 25 Demo Beat Projects (complete MPC sessions, 77–100 BPM) 400 WAV Samples: 140 Melodic Loops & Chops (Rhodes, piano, strings, organ, vibes, sax, flute, clav, guitar, Juno arps) 65 Kicks 49 Snares 43 Hats 32 Moog & Juno Bass Loops and One-Shots 29 Percussion 13 Moog & Juno FX (sirens, sweeps, wind) 10 Drum Loops & Fills 19 Vocals, Crashes, Rides, Claps & Moog Leads 25 Demo MP3 Previews XPN Expansion Package (MPC 2 and MPC 3 versions) Original MPC Project Folders (direct file access, no XPN install needed) Installation Instructions + Video Technical specifications: Built in MPC 2.7, tested in MPC 2.7 & MPC 3.8 Separate XPN builds for MPC 2 and MPC 3, both included Install via XPN or drag the project folders straight to your drive WAV samples work in any DAW; programs and projects are MPC only Hardware-sourced sounds: Roland Juno-106, Moog Model D, Matriarch & Grandmother 16-bit / 44.1 kHz WAV Approx. 1.5 GB per version 100% royalty free. Use every sound in your own beats, including commercial releases. No royalties, no publishing splits, no credit required. The only restriction: don’t bounce the full demo beats and release them as your own. Grab Crate Classics Vol. 1 Now — $39.99