How To Install MPC Bible 3 Project Files

The MPC Bible 3 comes with an expansion which contains all the project files you’ll need to recreate all the tutorials and projects found within the course. This guide explains how to transfer this expansion over to your MPC disk using ‘controller mode’.

Connecting Your MPC Disk to a Computer

If you have a 'generation 2' MPC (currently the only gen2 model is the MPC Live 3), then you are able to transfer your expansions directly to the MPC's own internal drive, or if you prefer you can copy them to an attached removable drive such as an SD card, a USB drive or a SATA hard drive.

For generation 1 MPCs and Akai Force, the internal drive is not externally accessible, so a removable drive is the only option.  

The first step is to mount your MPC disk on your computer and the most common way is to use 'Controller Mode' (or 'Computer Mode' in the Force). If you are connecting to a removable disk, ensure it is connected to your MPC (e.g. an SD card is pushed into the MPCs SD card slot).

The next step is to connect your MPC to your computer via USB. On a generation 1 MPC, connect a standard USB cable from the MPC USB-B port to a spare USB-A port on your computer:

If your computer only has USB 'C' ports, you can either use a 'USB C-to-A' adapter, or a good quality 'USB-C to USB-A' cable.

For generation 2 MPCs, connect the USB-C port at the back of your MPC to a spare USB port on your computer, ideally using the USB-C cable that came with your MPC. If you only have USB-A ports on your computer you'll need an adapter, a USB hub, or you can try a 'USB-C to USB-A' cable.

MPC users should then go to the MENU screen and click on the ‘MPC Chip’ icon at the top of the page:

In the Force, select the 'Laptop' icon. This will bring up the ‘ENTER CONTROLLER MODE’ screen. Click on the CONTROLLER MODE button at the bottom of the page. 

You will now see a 'Looking for Computer' screen; this is expected behaviour and simply indicates that your MPC has entered controller mode. From the perspective of your MPC/Force, this is all that is required.

If you now go to your computer's File Explorer ('Finder' in a Mac) you should see your MPC disk(s) appear along with all the other disks attached to your computer.

Generation 1 owners  will see something similar to the following, where MPC SD refers to an SD card currently connected to the MPC's SD card slot - here's the Mac version (as seen in the 'Locations' section of Finder):

On a PC go to File Explorer:

You can now double click the icon of the destination MPC disk; this will place you in the 'root' location of the MPC disk.

With Generation 2 hardware you'll discover that the internal factory drive is actually split into two separate drives; MPC Content and MPC User:

'MPC Content' contains all the factory expansions and demos and has limited free space available. I would suggest you ignore this drive; instead we'll be transferring content to the MPC User drive, so click on this drive to enter this disks 'root' location.

We are now ready to transfer files to your MPC disk.

Installing The MPC Bible 3 ‘Project Files’ Expansion

After downloading the MPC Bible 3 zip file from your customer account, unzip to reveal all the course files. You’ll see the following:

The 'MPC Bible 3' PDF file is the MPC Bible 3 course itself, the EPUB Version folder contains a version of the course optimised for using in smartphones and ebook readers.  The course project files can be found within the Expansions folder:

There's three expansions included here:

• MPC Bible 3 Project Files - this expansion contains all the projects, samples, kits & instruments used in the tutorials throughout the course
• Drum Kit Selection - this expansion contains a selection of drum kits
• Instrument Selection - this expansion contains a selection of multisampled 'keygroup' instruments

If your MPC disk already contains an ‘Expansions’ folder, simply copy over the three individual expansion folders inside your existing ‘Expansions’ folder on your MPC disk. If your MPC disk doesn’t have an existing ‘Expansions’ folder, simply copy over the entire 'Expansions' folder to the root location on your MPC disk - this will either be the root location of your removable disk or in the case of the MPC Live 3, can also be the root location of the 'MPC User' disk:

Viewing Your Expansions

That's it! The next time you boot up your MPC, all three expansions will be available to use inside the 'Expansions' tab of the MPC ‘Browser’. Tap on the MPC Bible 3 Project Files expansion and on the right side of the BROWSER you’ll see all the course files organised by chapter:

So for example, if you are currently reading chapter A05 of the course, open the A05 folder in your browser and you'll see all the files used in that tutorial:

If you need any help installing your MPC Bible 3 projects, please don’t hesitate to contact us.