MPC Live III | Installing the Included Expansion Packs

The contents of this article cover setup instructions for installing MPC expansions from the inMusic Software Center. This is helpful if you have accidentally deleted content from your MPC Live III, or would like to put the content on another drive for use with another Standalone MPC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

inMusic Software Center
Downloading Expansions
Installation - To Your Own External Drive
Installation - To The MPC Live III Internal Drives

inMusic Software Center

1. To download the expansions included with your device, first Download the inMusic Software Center

2. After the download completes, It will open up the inMusic Software Center

3. Click on Let's Go! and will then take you to a browser window to sign into your newly created inMusic Profile. Enter both your email address and password and click on "SIGN IN"

Downloading Expansions

The following information will demonstrate the steps to copy the MPCe Expressive Kits Expansion from your computer and to your MPC Live III for Standalone use. The same steps apply for the other included expansions.

1. Click My Expansions from the tab on the left:

2. In the MPC Sound Packs category, you will find all of the included content for the MPC Live III.

3. Click the dropdown arrow to reveal Standalone - MPCe Expressive Kits and click Download - do so for each expansion.

Important: If a particular expansion does not have a 'Standalone' option, please Install the expansions and then refer to the following article to export the expansion through MPC desktop software: Akai Pro MPC Series | Accessing Your Purchased Expansions and Software

4. Once the download is complete, click Show in Folder

Note 1: If 'Show in Folder' does not appear... You have downloaded the expansion installer for desktop - Navigate back to step 3.

5. By default, all software from the inMusic Software Center is downloaded to the following location:

Windows: C: > Users > [Name] > Downloads > inMusic
Mac: Macintosh HD > Users > [User Name] > Downloads > inMusic

Installation - To Your Own External Drive

1. Select the drive where you want to install the content (SD card, USB drive, SATA etc). Make sure that the drive has enough free space to hold the entire pack.

2. Connect the selected drive to your computer.

Note: Internal MPC drives can connect to your computer by putting your MPC into “controller mode.”

3. Open the following location on your computer:

Windows: C: > Users > [Name] > Downloads > inMusic
Mac: Macintosh HD > Users > [User Name] > Downloads > inMusic

There you will find the MPCe Expressive Kits-1.0.12 folder. Double click/open the folder:

4. You should now see a folder titled after the expansion you have just extracted. In this example MPCe Expressive Kits:

5. Copy the expansion pack's folder from your computer, to the inside of the Expansions folder on your user drive.

Make sure you copy the entire folder itself, not the content within it.

Note: If one does not already exist, create a folder in the root directory (top-level) of the drive (not in any folder) and name it Expansions

6. Wait for the files to copy.

7. Once the files have been copied, safely eject the drive from your computer.

8. Insert the drive into your MPC Live III. Your expansion will appear in Browser > Expansions.

Installation - To The MPC Live III Internal Drives

If you have erased your content from the MPC Live III's internal storage, please follow the steps to place the content back.

1. Connect the MPC Live III to your computer.

2. Put your MPC into “controller mode.” by tapping the microchip icon in the Main Menu

3. Open the following location on your computer

Windows: C: > Users > [Name] > Downloads > inMusic

Mac: Macintosh HD > Users > [User Name] > Downloads > inMusic

There you will find the MPCe Expressive Kits-1.0.12 folder. Double click/open the folder:

4. You should now see a folder titled after the expansion you have just extracted. In this example MPCe Expressive Kits:

5.Copy the expansion pack's folder from your computer, to the inside the 'Expansions' folder on the 'MPC Content' drive.

Make sure you copy the entire folder itself, not the content within it.

If there is not enough room, you can use the User Drive instead. Be sure to create a new folder called Expansions to the root (top-level) of the drive:

6. Wait for the files to copy.

7. Once the files have been copied, safely eject the drive from your computer.

8. Insert the drive into your MPC Live III. Your expansion will appear in Browser > Expansions.

See this video tutorial for further guidance on how to locate/use the MPCe expressive kit expansion in Standalone mode: Getting Started with MPC Live III | Creating MPCe Custom Kit