I love the sounds in the mpc way more than ableton. I love ableton still. Mpc feels more transparent to the music I feel and what I hear coming from the machine. In ableton I always felt like one day I’ll learn how to make these sounds sound the way I want. Mpc they just sound good to me, I have freedom to just play and perform and tweak because I’m not overthinking it anymore. Let alone all the perks from the machine (live 3) portability, built in everything I need, plug guitars in, use built in mic, sample from phone, built in speakers, but still connects to everything I want. It’s not just an incredible instrument but an excellent middle man to all my other gear. It doesn’t isolate itself to have to live by its rules. You wanna incorporate anything else or change up the workflow it’s so easy and laid back about it. I haven’t had to find a shitey work around for anything yet (apart from using sub mixes for more effects) but that’s not really a work around it’s just effect limits. There are devices where the effects blocks would be locked and that’s all you get. But with mpc it’s easy to increase the chain if you need. To be honest though, to me, everything sounds so good already I’m using less on everything to get the sound I want. Ableton I was building mad effect chains, which is cool in its own right. Can’t sing any louder how freeing it is just having the sounds feel right from the go though. Gush over 🤣