Remember we are not talking about disk storage here, RAM is the dynamic memory used by the MPC to physically hold your currently active project. Any left over RAM can be used in your project to dynamically store all the samples, audio tracks, programs, sequences and effects you have inside your currently active project. Upon booting up your machine, this RAM has to manage the operating system (which is Linux) and also the MPC Software application itself.
The MPC X, MPC One and MPC Live (and the Akai Force!) contain 2GB of RAM which forms part of the main board – this is a fixed amount of RAM and cannot be upgraded. Please note that the MPC Key 61 features an extra 2GB of RAM (4GB) in total, so has significiantly less restrictions to worry about. This tutorial is likely to useful for Akai Force owners as the Force has the same internal board, same RAM and similar OS. While I was writing this article Akai released some additional information regarding the MPC Live/MPC X/MPC One memory usage which seemed to confirmed my findings, however it’s important that we look at how these numbers can be translated into ‘real world’ sample usage. There’s been a lot of discussion about the actual amount of ‘available’ memory in the MPC Live, MPC One and MPC X, so I’ve spent some time investigating this to try to get a clearer picture.
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