as verified by several testing members in the 1k forums, and myself.
not that 2.1 was overwhelmingly buggy, but here and there we had issues. esp with saving/corruption of files in the hd over time. i think you know what i'm talking about, i've heard rumors of similar things happening to the 2500.
as for bugs in 3.0, they're all fairly small - apparently one dude had his freeze up but that hasn't happened to me yet. one i've noticed is a strange issue with assigning the sample to a pad, very difficult to explain but it's nothing huge.
mostly it's small stuff. we got transient chopping in 3.0, but the problem is it seems to have replaced the option to zone equal sized portions. for now. not really a bug, but more of something that should be an option. the transient detection is pretty great, too - and it seems that it doesn't roll off the beginning and end of the sample as the original slice function did in 2.1.
so far, there have been no saving issues, which was my biggest concern before. the new folder bug doesn't seem to be a problem.
there was a midi sync issue - it neither slaved nor mastered. the jj released an updated beta where the mpc would be a slave to outboard gear, but we still can't be the master. it'll come soon.
it's still rough around the edges, but workable, and incredibly promising. the layout is exactly the same as the old version - there are just more options where previously there were none. essentially it seems that he didn't start from the ground up but rather took preexisting code and altered/added to it. the save/load function is much better now graphically, as well.
if you get a chance you should take the os into guitar center and throw it on the 1000 to take a look at it. confuse the gc people
basically, it's better than other betas i've tested for other pc basde programs. akai is def gonna fix the 2500 os, no doubt. to leave you hanging would be suicide. and when they do i bet the jj will grab it and throw in some spices. even if not, it will be dope.
check this out - 3.0 lets us select/change all the parameters of a program - like tune, volume, filter, etc. here, check this picture out and see if it can explain itself - this is something 2500/1000 users have been begging akai for.
