MPC One 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×Printed X cross-frame
• 4×M4 × 35 socket-head screws
• 4×M4 nuts
• 4×M4 washers (9 mm outside diameter, 0.8 mm)
• 2×Rail cushions, 24 × 248 × 2 mm
• 2×Front stop bumpers, 24 × 8 × 1 mm
• 2×Desk grip strips, 24 × 232 × 1 mm

Device not included. The Akai MPC One G2 in the photographs is a CAD reconstruction.

Assembly

1. 1Lay the two side panels inside-face up. They are handed — the joint mortises face each other.
2. 2Drop an M4 nut into the captive slot beside each of the four joints. The slot holds it; you never need to hold a nut with pliers.
3. 3Slide the four tongues of the cross-frame into the panel mortises. 14 mm of engagement, 0.25 mm clearance a side — it should push home by hand.
4. 4Fit a washer and an M4 × 35 screw into each recess and tighten evenly. The heads sit 5 mm below the panel face.
5. 5Lay a rail cushion along the top of each rail, starting 14 mm back from the front stop.
6. 6Stick a stop bumper to the inside face of each front stop.
7. 7Turn the stand over, apply a desk grip strip to the underside of each panel, and set it down. The strips raise the whole structure 1 mm.

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

I have the original MPC One, not the + or the G2. Will it fit?

It should. All three are published at 272 × 272 × 53 mm, the original is drawn to that same envelope, and the two undersides we have read — the G2 and the One+ — agree with each other within 1–2 mm. If yours lands differently, the fit promise covers it: we refund the stand and your return postage.

Can I still get at the SD card?

Yes. The front stops on this one are 12 mm rather than the usual family height for that reason — both the SD slot and the headphone jack stay clear with the unit tilted.