By giacecco
Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:23 am
I've purchased my first MPC Live earlier this year and soon upgraded to the MPC X. Despite all its legacy and quirks, I've enjoyed learning it and adapting to it, coming from Bitwig Studio (that I still use).
As a hobbyist, I've invested significant effort in learning, and today I am concerned by the very bad quality of the 2.11.x releases, particularly by how many trivial bugs could get through AKAI's quality control processes through multiple revisions (using 2.11.3 at the moment of writing).
If I consider that for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of users the MPC is a professional "work" device, the release of 2.11 must have been a disaster for them (if they took the risk of upgrading).
As a techie, I would speculate that AKAI looks like a project that has lost its key product manager / developers and can't even guarantee basic quality control. I'm actually surprised that, on one side, they could deliver the MPC Key 61 and the new plugins (yes, I've purchased them, don't judge me), and, on the other side, have such an unreliable firmware.
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end of the MPC or they will be able to recover and make this feel like just a bad memory. Many of the people in this forum must have years of experience of AKAI. How do you feel about what happened? Thanks.
G.
As a hobbyist, I've invested significant effort in learning, and today I am concerned by the very bad quality of the 2.11.x releases, particularly by how many trivial bugs could get through AKAI's quality control processes through multiple revisions (using 2.11.3 at the moment of writing).
If I consider that for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of users the MPC is a professional "work" device, the release of 2.11 must have been a disaster for them (if they took the risk of upgrading).
As a techie, I would speculate that AKAI looks like a project that has lost its key product manager / developers and can't even guarantee basic quality control. I'm actually surprised that, on one side, they could deliver the MPC Key 61 and the new plugins (yes, I've purchased them, don't judge me), and, on the other side, have such an unreliable firmware.
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end of the MPC or they will be able to recover and make this feel like just a bad memory. Many of the people in this forum must have years of experience of AKAI. How do you feel about what happened? Thanks.
G.