Advanced and optional: community patches that change the device itself, listed read-only in the installer app's step 7.
Not for most people. A device patch changes the device itself (for example Akai's own MPC program), it is not a plugin. Read the guide first, back up your projects, and use it at your own risk. The installer app only lists these; running one is done by hand over SSH with the script shown, whose checksum you can verify.
Machinedrum Module / Machinemodule, 6W6, 8W8, CW-78, 9W9, TR-MPC and Lucky Dip get MPC's drum layout with all 16 pads lit. On Gen2 (Live III) it runs a patched copy of MPC instead of changing the system.
Replaced by Auto exec (use that instead; this one is kept so it can still be uninstalled). UNTESTED on a device by this project. MPC cannot load a plugin from a drive mounted noexec: it is listed but only shows Load Plugin. This makes one folder of the drive (Synths) executable, through a small boot-time service; the drive itself stays noexec.
UNTESTED on a device by this project. Testers wanted (issue #150).
Recommended for a noexec drive. MPC cannot load a plugin from a drive mounted noexec (SSD, USB stick, SD card): it is listed but only shows Load Plugin. This makes the Synths folder of every noexec drive executable through a small boot-time service, with nothing to choose; the drives stay noexec. Tried on a Force with two USB sticks, a plugin loaded and survived a power cycle (not yet tried: an eject without its release command); 0.3.1 also starts after a reboot when an overlay is mounted on /usr (tried on a second Force, two reboots), and 0.3.2 finds drives with a space in the name. Apply updates an installed 0.3.0 or 0.3.1 in place. Replaces drive exec.
Remap hardware buttons on a standalone MPC or Force (an LD_PRELOAD shim: a button can become other buttons, a pad or a screen tap). Pick which remaps you want at install (Force: Mixer, Edit, Clip, Menu and Knobs options; the Mode Menu must be at its default layout for the ones that tap an icon). The author's hwremap was tried on an MPC Live (Hakai, MPC 3.9.1) and a Force (stock 3.9.0); this installer and its Force rules were run on one Force (MPC OS 3.x) on 2026-10-10. Not tried yet: uninstall and the MPC Live map on a device. It does not work together with MidiLoop / MockbaMod's input path.
On MPC OS 3.10 (Gen2), addins load through a systemd drop-in in /run (tmpfs) that is lost after every reboot. This patch installs a Lua device script on the persistent content drive that MPC runs at every start. If addins in /data/mpc-addins are not loaded, it writes the /run drop-in and restarts MPC once. The user sees one automatic restart after a reboot; after that, all addins work. Does not modify the system image. Tested on a Live III (MPC OS 3.10, 2026-11-03): survives a full reboot, five addins restored.