
So how can Akai Force users create their own expansions without coughing up for an MPC Software license? The good news is that building a ‘standalone’ expansion is pretty easy and requires no special software at all, so let’s quickly see what the procedure is for Akai Force users. The Akai Force can also read and use these exported standalone expansions, however at the time of writing, neither the MPC Software nor the Expansion Builder App are bundled with the Force.

This produces an ‘expansion installer’ in XPN format which can be dragged into the MPC Software and subsequently exported for ‘standalone’ MPC use in the MPC Live/X.

In a previous MPC expansion tutorial I looked at how we can build MPC expansions using the ‘ MPC Expansion Builder’ app, which is bundled with Akai’s MPC Software.
