Namm 2010 is coming up, do you think OS 3 will be released?

ritec wrote:yeah yesterday I received the email were they have new releases and what not and it did not say anything about mpcs.

it also had the most ridiculous machine I have ever seen in my life, a controller for your iphone.


wtf akai?

Perhaps a WTF, but at least it's a new market. It could be a good software/hardware combo. In my mind at least it's worth keeping an eye on, though certainly won't be an MPC replacement/killer. Not that they will, but if they opened an API for other devs to be able to make their synths compatible with this hardware it would be 10x more valuable. Honestly, the iPhone is plenty powerful for doing some interesting synthesis, it just lacks a usable interface. Still, an iPhone and MPC 500 is a powerful road warrior combo without this hardware. With it there is even further potential.

The APC-20 is a yawn... The new MPD has me more worried about Akai's direction. Plus the rebranding of the LPK/LPD... I dunno.

I have an itouch and it's great to fiddle around and make synth patches here and there but honestly, if I am going to be carrying around a whole keyboard for my iphone I might as well just carry a laptop with the smaller controller they released a while ago.


does anyone remember what date they released version 2.0 of the mpc5k OS?

Hi ritec!
the OS v2.0 update release note is dated 02/25/09...that's old!
and not ONE bug fix so far
/jocks

well at least we know it was not released in last years namm.

Akai screwed us big time! Now they make toys for computer lovers.


Why are they making the "same" pad controller over and over again?

lol!! no more mpcs, just i phone controllers, and sh#t like that,.. numark/akai is really taking a strange direction
i still cant believe how bad of a job they did on the 5000,. that piece is pure horse sh$t..

Now I know that this...



Looks disturbingly identical to this...



But there is a key difference. The MPD-32 was the first in the MPD series to have the Note Repeat function, the MPD-24 lacks this. So basically they brought back the MPD-24, yanked off two (2) of the 360° knobs and added note repeat, tap tempo and something else. I'm diggin the fact that I get the functions I liked in the MPD-32 but with allot less knobs and stuff I wont ever use. I'm kinda feeling the same way about the APC-20, the fact that it lies kinda in between a launchpad and an APC-40 is good for someone like me.
I'm into these...


Now as for the iPK25...
It's completely lame unless it will allow for control of other i-phone synthesis apps.

NAMM Show 2010 is in full swing...and still no news about an OS update for MPC5000...It is truly sad...sad indeed...

ritec wrote:well at least we know it was not released in last years namm.

hi everyone,
It was presented at winter NAMM january 18 2009. I saw that at sonic state NAMM 2009 video report. it seems that the download info was written later...

I just wrote an email to Akai support (my third one).
I mentionned our bug reports on MPC-forum,
the non existing product support via email,
and the fact that the MPC series weren't on display at winter NAMM 2010. I asked if the MPC product line had been dropped?
/jocks

jocks wrote:

ritec wrote:well at least we know it was not released in last years namm.

hi everyone,
It was presented at winter NAMM january 18 2009. I saw that at sonic state NAMM 2009 video report. it seems that the download info was written later...

I just wrote an email to Akai support (my third one).
I mentionned our bug reports on MPC-forum,
the non existing product support via email,
and the fact that the MPC series weren't on display at winter NAMM 2010. I asked if the MPC product line had been dropped?
/jocks

Let me guess...no reply...

hi all!
here's the reply I got from Akai:

"Thank you for your email. There are no plans to discontinue the MPC line. As far as new OS updates, we do not hear of this in advance since all development is done in seclusion. We only hear of new updates along with the public once they are posted to http://www.akaipro.com.

Your request is important to us, and I have logged your comments as an official request. These requests are delivered weekly to our development team.

Best Regards,

Justin Baro"

Really the standard Akai response, AGAIN! the exception beeing denial of any plans to discontinue the MPC line.
/jocks

an official request lol.....to join the 1000 other requests which have gone into the bin

as if development decide what gets fixed or done

numark would be long bankrupt if this was the case