Akai Pro MPC Software | MPC Project Failed To Load

In this article, we will walk through the causes for project loading/saving errors, as well as going through troubleshooting steps to resolve the errors.

To start, we strongly recommend visiting the below articles for saving projects:

MPC Series | Saving Projects with Auto Save : Akai Professional

MPC Standalone | The Best Way To Save Projects To An External Drive : Akai Professional

MPC Project failed to load: This message will occur if:

If your MPC project was created in MPC 3 (Standalone/Desktop) and are attempting to open it on MPC 2 desktop or standalone versions.

Please note that MPC 3 projects (Standalone/Desktop) are not backwards compatible on MPC 2 (Standalone/Desktop). As such, we suggest the workaround of exporting all tracks in your project as audio files - MPC Series | How to Export Individual Tracks, or load your MPC 3 standalone projects in MPC3.5 Desktop Public Beta
If the saving process was interrupted (i.e if your MPC was disconnected from power/battery ran out of charge)
If your MPC project and/or the [ProjectData] folder have been moved from the original saved drive location on your MPC/computer.
If you have renamed the MPC Project and/or [ProjectData] folder outside of MPC 2/MPC Beats software.
If you have used unsupported characters such as / * " / \ < > : | ?

Restoring Renamed Projects: It is important to note that MPC projects that have been manually "renamed" will prevent the MPC from recalling the Project Data files. This is because the project file paths are "hard coded" into the .XPJ file when the session is first saved.

A step you can take to restore a 'renamed' project is to rename the project file (.xpj) back to its original name.

If you are unable to remember the name, the [ProjectData] folder for this file could help - as long as the name for this folder has not been changed or modified.

If for any reason you are unable to remember the original name of your project, then sadly you may continue to receive the error message.

If you continue to experience issues, please do not hesitate to reach out to our customer support team for further assistance.