House Keys Essentials MPC Expansion cover, classic house keygroup instruments for standalone Akai MPC by ProducerStack

Akai MPC Live III with pads lit up loading the House Keys Essentials MPC Expansion by ProducerStack

Korg M1 workstation, the source hardware sampled for the House Keys Essentials MPC Expansion piano and organ by ProducerStack

House Keys Essentials | MPC Expansion

Name: House Keys Essentials | MPC Expansion
Brand: ProducerStack.com
Price: 24.99 GBP
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MPC EXPANSION

£24.99 GBP

£24.99 GBP

House Keys Essentials | MPC Expansion

Three of the keyboards that built house music, rebuilt as playable instruments for your MPC. The Korg M1 piano, the M1 organ and the Yamaha TX81Z Lately Bass, mapped across the keys and ready to play.

These are not one-shots on pads. They are full keygroup instruments, multi-sampled note by note from the original hardware, so you play the real tone at every pitch with proper velocity response where it matters. Load one, drop your hands on the keys, and you are playing the actual sound behind three decades of house records.

Every note was captured through a Neve 1073 preamp, the same signal chain behind the ProducerStack Serum versions. That is what the 1073 in the names means: real hardware, warmed through a real 1073, then built out for the MPC.

Ships dry, on purpose. No baked-in reverb or delay to fight or strip out. Raw, playable, yours to shape.

Every instrument also comes with MIDI loops and a dry WAV render of each one, 130 of each in total, in a separate folder kept out of the Expansion so your MPC browser stays clean. Hear a phrase, drop it in, make it yours. On MPC 3, drop a MIDI loop into the clip Matrix and it launches in time with your project.

Two editions in every purchase, Standard and Studio. Install one, start playing.

Pristine vintage hardware with professional processing for uncompromising audio fidelity.

Neve 1073 DPX signal chain used to capture Korg M1 Piano 16 samples — ProducerStack recording setup

Our Heritage Recording Chain

Pristine vintage hardware with professional processing for uncompromising audio fidelity.

Audio Preview

A selection of samples from this pack

Korg M1 Piano

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Yamaha TX81Z Lately Bass

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Why This Matters

This isn't a generic MPC expansion made in a weekend.

This is an authentic Multi-Sample, sampled from an outstanding example of the original unit, processed through Neve 1073 DPX preamps, multisampled across the full key range with velocity layers.

This sound isn't nostalgia.
It's the foundation.

We've captured it properly so you can use it in modern productions without compromise.

Three Classic House Keyboards for Your MPC

House Keys Essentials bundles the three core keyboard voices of house into a single MPC Expansion: the piano, the organ and the bass. 1,032 samples in total, multi-sampled across the full playable range of each instrument, browsable together and previewed straight from the MPC browser. Each one plays like the hardware it came from, not a loop and not a preset. Every instrument also ships with MIDI loops and a dry render of each phrase, in a separate MIDI & Audio folder for your DAW.

Korg M1 Piano 16

The most culturally loaded piano in electronic music. The percussive stab behind Madonna's "Vogue," Black Box's "Ride on Time" and Snap!'s "Rhythm Is A Dancer," and still reaching into house productions today. 61 notes sampled across C1 to C6 in stereo, 8 velocity layers, so playing harder opens the tone up exactly like the real thing. 488 samples, holding the full natural decay. 40 MIDI loops with a dry render of each are included.

Korg M1 Organ 2

The house organ. Robin S rode it on "Show Me Love," and it became the harmonic backbone of deep house, gospel house and the Hacienda sound. A true percussive organ, exactly like the real M1: every note plays the sustained organ body and a short attack chiff together, with a seamless sustain loop so held notes ring on. 76 notes across E0 to G6 in stereo, 152 samples. 50 MIDI loops (25 bass, 25 chords), each with a dry render, are included.

Yamaha TX81Z Lately Bass

The most recognisable FM bass in UK electronic music. The C15 Lately Bass patch sat under Orbital's "Chime," Gat Decor's "Passion" and Lil' Louis's "French Kiss." Clean low-end weight, a metallic upper-harmonic edge and a percussive attack that cuts through a system without being loud. 49 notes across C1 to C5 in mono, 8 velocity layers, 392 samples. 40 MIDI loops with a dry render of each are included.

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Why House Lives on the MPC

House was built on hardware played by hand. The M1 and the TX81Z were keyboards you sat down at and performed, and that hands-on immediacy is the whole feel of the genre. The MPC is where a lot of house and dance producers work now for exactly the same reason: standalone, tactile, no laptop between you and the idea.

Keygroup instruments are what close the loop. Instead of triggering a single sample off a pad, you get the whole instrument mapped across the keys, velocity and all. On an MPC Key you are literally playing these house keyboards from a keyboard. On any MPC you can finger the pads chromatically, sketch a progression, and build the track on the device.

That is the argument for putting these three sounds on the MPC rather than leaving them on the laptop. Same spirit as the original hardware, same in-the-room workflow, none of the mouse.

The included MIDI is made for this. On MPC 3, drop a loop into the Matrix, the clip launcher, and it plays in time with your project tempo, triggering the House Keys instrument on the track. Launch clips, build the groove, the way house is made.

Release Quality Audio Samples

All audio delivered at 44.1 or 48Khz 24bit in .wav format for maximum flexibility.

Clear File Tagging and Labelling

All products intuitively labelled by seasoned producers for use on your MPC or DAW

100% Royalty Free

All of our samples are supplied based on our simple royalty free license terms leaving you to produce and release with confidence.

Raw, Playable, Yours to Shape

These instruments ship dry. No reverb, no delay, no baked-in processing. That is a deliberate choice for producers who want to own the sound.

Dry means full control. There is nothing to strip out before you start, no effect fighting your own chain, and nothing eating your DSP headroom on a standalone MPC where reverb and delay are the heaviest things you can load. You get a clean, playable instrument and you shape it your way.

If you want a starting point, a simple chain of EQ into compression into a touch of reverb, finished with a limiter, will place any of these three in a mix quickly. Dial it to taste. It is your sound to build.

The included MIDI and dry renders follow the same idea. Every phrase comes as MIDI to edit however you like, with a dry render so you can hear it first. Nothing baked in.

Product FAQs

Is this sampled from real hardware or an emulation?

Real hardware. The piano and organ come from an original 1988 Korg M1, and the bass from a real Yamaha TX81Z. Not plugins, not emulations.

Every note was captured through a Neve 1073 DPX preamp, then rebuilt as a playable MPC keygroup instrument. That is the 1073 in the names.

Are these playable instruments or just one-shot samples?

Full keygroup instruments. Each one is multi-sampled across its range and mapped to the keys, with velocity layers on the piano and the bass. You play them like the hardware, you do not just trigger a single sample off a pad.

Will this work on my MPC?

Yes, if your MPC is a standalone unit running MPC 3 firmware (v3.x). That covers the MPC Live, Live II, One, One+, X, X SE, Key 61 and Key 37, and the MPC 3 Desktop software.

It does not load on MPC 2.x firmware, on MPC Beats, or in MPC Software 2.15. Not sure what yours runs? Email us before you buy and we will check with you.

Can I use these in my own releases?

Yes, fully. Everything is 100% royalty-free and cleared for commercial use. No clearance fees, no credits required, no restrictions on release format or platform.

Why do they ship with no effects?

On purpose. Dry means you keep full control, there is nothing to strip out, nothing fighting your own chain, and nothing eating DSP on a standalone MPC where reverb and delay are the heaviest things you can load. Add your own processing to taste.

Why does the organ sound different to other M1 organ samples?

Because the M1 organ is not one held sound. On the real hardware, every note fires a short percussive attack chiff at the same time as the sustained organ body. Most sample sets capture only the body and miss that attack, which is why they sound flat.

We built it as a true percussive organ: the body and the attack play together on every note, with a seamless sustain loop so held notes ring on. That is what gives it the recognisable click on the front, and why it sits in a house track the way the hardware does.

Technical Specifications & Package Contents

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

3 playable MPC keygroup instruments in one Expansion, browsable together: Korg M1 Piano 16, Korg M1 Organ 2, Yamaha TX81Z Lately Bass
1,032 multi-samples total, captured through a Neve 1073 DPX
Velocity response where it matters: 8 layers on the piano and the bass; the organ layers its body and attack per note
A browse preview for every instrument, playable straight from the MPC browser
130 MIDI loops across the three instruments (40 piano, 50 organ, 40 bass)
130 dry WAV renders, one for every MIDI loop, so you can hear a phrase and drop it straight in
MIDI and renders sit in a separate MIDI & Audio folder, kept out of the Expansion so your MPC browser stays clean
On MPC 3, the MIDI loops load into the clip Matrix and play in time with your project tempo
Installable Expansion, appears under Browser > Expansions
Two editions: Standard (44.1kHz / 16-bit) and Studio (48kHz / 24-bit)

MPC COMPATIBILITY:

Requires a standalone Akai MPC running MPC 3 firmware (v3.x)
MPC Live, MPC Live II, MPC One, MPC One+
MPC X, MPC X SE, MPC Key 61, MPC Key 37
Also loads in the MPC 3 Desktop software (currently a public beta)
Not compatible with MPC 2.x firmware, MPC Beats, or MPC Software 2.15

INSTALLATION:

Unzip. Drag ONLY the House Keys Essentials folder into the Expansions folder on your MPC's SD card, USB drive or internal drive. No installer needed.
The MIDI & Audio folder is bonus content for your DAW or the MPC 3 clip Matrix. Do not put it in the Expansions folder.
Install one edition, not both. They contain the same three instruments.

AUDIO SPECIFICATIONS:

Standard: 44.1kHz / 16-bit (instruments and MIDI renders)
Studio: 48kHz / 24-bit (instruments and MIDI renders)

LICENSING:

Royalty-free for commercial releases
Instant download delivery

FILE SIZE: Standard ~826MB / Studio ~954MB

House Keys Essentials | MPC Expansion

Our Heritage Recording Chain

Korg M1 Piano

Korg M1 Organ 2

Yamaha TX81Z Lately Bass

Three Classic House Keyboards for Your MPC

Product FAQs

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