
Now drag & drop the XPN file directly into the software UI from your computer’s File Explorer/Finder:Īlternatively, you can load the XPN directly from the MPC Software/MPC Beats ‘File Browser’ (keyboard shortcut ‘F’) - in the File Browser simply navigate to where you extracted the XPN and either double click the XPN or drag it from the File Browser directly into the Grid: Launch the MPC Software/MPC Beats application on your computer. For example in the screenshot above, the MPC Software expansion installer is called ‘ Platinum Percussion MPC Software Installer.XPN’. Most of our expansions are ‘multi-format’ and contain versions for different MPC models – the file you’ll need for importing an expansion into the MPC Software/MPC Beats will be an ‘XPN’ file with the words 'MPC Software Installer.XPN' in the file name.
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Windows Users: Right click the zip file, select 'Extract All' and choose a location for extraction - do not just double click the zip file as this only opens it as a virtual 'Compressed Folder' and the MPC Software is unable to install an XPN from here.Īfter extracting the files to a location on your computer, you’ll see something like this: Mac Users: Simply double click the zip file to automatically extract the contents of the zip file to a folder at the same location on your disk

This will be a ‘zip archive’ so you will first need to extract the files using your computer’s default zip application. Downloading & Extracting Your ExpansionĪfter purchasing you can download the expansion from your File Bank.

Pease note: if you need to install our expansions into the MPC Live/X and Akai Force, check out our separate ‘ Standalone MPC Expansion Installation’ article. This article shows the step-by-step process for installing our MPC Expansions into the MPC Software and the MPC Beats app using the included XPN file.
