MPC Live III stand

Three reasons a wedge is worth the desk space

You can see the screen without leaning

A flat machine on a desk points its display at your chest. Tilting it puts the screen normal to your eyeline from a seated position, which is the difference between glancing at a parameter and stopping to read it.

Your wrist stops bending backwards

Playing pads on a flat desk holds the wrist in extension for the length of a session. Raising the front edge and angling the deck lets the hand sit closer to neutral, the way a sloped keyboard does.

The cables stop fighting the desk

Lifting the rear off the surface gives every rear connector a straight run instead of a sharp bend at the socket, and puts air under a machine that is otherwise sitting in its own heat.

In the box

• 1×Left side panel, printed and finished
• 1×Right side panel, printed and finished
• 1×Cross-frame, left half
• 1×Cross-frame, right half
• 4×M4 × 35 socket-head screws, for the side joints
• 3×M4 × 16 socket-head screws, for the centre lap joint
• 7×M4 nuts
• 7×M4 washers (9 mm outside diameter, 0.8 mm)
• 2×Protective rail strips, 24 × 256 × 2 mm
• 2×Front stop bumpers
• 2×Desk grip strips, 1 mm

Device not included. The Akai MPC Live III in the photographs is a CAD reconstruction.

Assembly

1. 1Lap the two cross-frame halves together at the 36 mm centre spine and drop an M4 nut into each of the three vertical slots.
2. 2Fit a washer and an M4 × 16 screw into each of the three spine holes and tighten. The bolt tips finish about 0.2 mm below the frame, and the 1 mm desk strips clear them.
3. 3Lay the two side panels inside-face up. They are handed — the joint mortises face each other.
4. 4Drop an M4 nut into the captive slot beside each of the four side joints.
5. 5Slide the four tongues of the assembled cross-frame into the panel mortises. 14 mm of engagement, 0.25 mm clearance a side.
6. 6Fit a washer and an M4 × 35 screw into each recess and tighten evenly.
7. 7Lay a rail strip along the top of each rail, front edge flush, and stick a stop bumper to the inside face of each front stop.
8. 8Turn the stand over, apply a desk grip strip to the underside of each panel, and set it down.

Shipping and returns

Stands ship flat-packed with the hardware and cushions in the same box. Assembly takes about five minutes and needs one hex key.

You have fourteen days from delivery to change your mind, for any reason, and we pay return postage if the stand does not fit your machine. That promise is the risk reversal for a product whose only real objection is fit — and it is the reason the list above is honest.

Returns policy·Shipping·Terms of sale

Common questions

Does this fit the Retro as well as the standard Live III?

Yes. They are the same tray in a different colourway — same envelope, same foot positions to within our reading error. One stand covers both.

Why does the cross-frame come in two pieces?

Because a 433 mm frame does not fit on a 256 mm print bed, and we would rather lap and bolt two honest halves than scale a part down until it fits. The spine is 36 mm wide with three M4 bolts through it.