IDEAL MPC FOR THE FUTURE

the petition seems a great idea to me...about the mail to write to Akai i don't know but some guy around here must know...Really the petition is THE IDEA...so long,man....

AKAI may be contacted through the MPC4000 group on Yahoo! but it isn't going to do any good. They are a small company with limited resources. It wouldn't surprise me to hear their staff has no more than a dozen employees. They don't have a huge budget for R&D. For all you know there never will be another large MPC like the 4000. AKAI has had 2 years to fix the 4000. They can't even do that, let alone develop a better model than that one.

Group members from Yahoo! e-mail AKAI now and then. E-mail addresses for AKAI were posted there recently. Nothing gets done. David Whittle has been a very patient interface between AKAI users and his company. After the OS 1.5 fiasco even he must be losing faith.

and lo-fi effects on the MPCs would be great too

you're right :sending a petition to Akai seems to be a very good idea....

I suggest that you get together with the Yahoo! group. They are way ahead of you on this point. I'm warning you that this effort of petition, complaint, suggestions is a waste of time. You aren't the first person to have thought of it or done it. AKAI has no budget for another monster machine.

they could put a lot of our requests on OS patches

It was done already. The forum still has an open poll for the OS feature considered the most important by MPC4000 owners.

aight I'ma check it out
thanx prod'

Then you won't want to miss this link from one of last year's posts:

http://www.gamebeatinc.com/mpc4kbugs.htm