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MPC Live III Field Guide, Print and Studio Dark editions
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The MPC Live III Field Guide: A Printable Companion to the MPC Live III Assistant

A 103-page step-by-step guide and a 2-page cheat sheet for the Akai MPC Live III, checked against Akai’s User Guide v3.10, in Print and Studio Dark editions. Launch price $14 through December 5.

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The MPC Live III Assistant is great when you know what to search for. The MPC Live III Field Guide is for the times you’d rather have the answer sitting next to the machine: a printable, step-by-step guide to the Akai MPC Live III, plus a two-page cheat sheet.

Sample page from the MPC Live III Field Guide: Program drums with the step buttons, with a color-coded panel figure and numbered steps
Every task gets a panel figure. Red buttons are held, orange buttons are pressed, blue knobs are turned, green outlines are tapped on the screen, and the numbers match the steps.

What’s in it

  • 81 tasks covering all 81 curated how-tos from the Assistant, in nine chapters: Essentials, Make a Beat, The Step Sequencer, Clips/Arranger and Songs, MPCe Pads and Touch Strip, Sampling and Recording, Sounds/Effects and Q-Links, Connect and Sync, and Storage/Power and Export.
  • Chapters are ordered by what MPC Live III owners ask about most. Making a first beat, installing expansions, the step buttons and the difference between sequences, clips and the arranger come first.
  • Each task has an overview, what you need first, one action per step with the result you should see, and the User Guide pages it’s based on.
  • A contents page, a “most-asked tasks” page, cross-references with page numbers, a shortcut appendix and an index.
  • A two-page cheat sheet for the front and back of one sheet of paper: the top fixes, step modes, SHIFT shortcuts, the Clip Matrix, Arrange Mode, MPCe pads, the touch strip, sampling, mixing, sync and export, and a preferences map.
  • Two editions: Print, with light pages made for paper, and Studio Dark, the same content on dark pages for reading on screen. Both come in US Letter and A4.
Front of the MPC Live III Cheat Sheet: panel map and the most-asked fixes
The front of the cheat sheet.

Checked against the 3.10 User Guide

Every procedure was checked against Akai’s MPC Live III / MPC XL User Guide v3.10 and the MPC Live III FAQ, with page numbers on every task. Where Akai’s own sources disagree, as they do on battery life, the guide says so.

MPC Live III Assistant v1.1.0 is live on the web and as a desktop download, with all 81 how-tos rebuilt from the verified guide text, 11 of them new.

Get it

The Field Guide and Cheat Sheet are one download: eight PDFs, delivered right after checkout. The launch price is $14 through December 5, then $19.

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The MPC Live III Assistant stays free.

The MPC Live III Field Guide is an independent publication and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Akai Professional or inMusic.

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