MPC Touch Price Drop

dustymaestro wrote:

Quickstrike2.0 wrote:Oh damn. I didn't sell my MPC touch soon enough. Now I'm taking a hefty price cut. MPC touch is a joke of all the mpcs.

Why?

Which part of my opinion are you asking why too?

Why is it so terrible, why did you keep it?

Still 699 euro in the Netherlands.

http://www.bax-shop.nl/midi-studio-cont ... controller

in uk the price is still sky high but the us price is ver indicative cos things drop later here then elsewhere so the drop if it is across the board in the US is very telling.

The only explanation I can see at this point for delaying 2.0 for so long is that they want to release it with some new mpc. I played with it at NAMM and it was almost there so I cant see them working out the bugs for the last 9 months

Right on time for the holidays. At this price point, will probably cop one but this does reek of a possible newer flagship model to drop with version 2.0 (first quarter 2017 Winter NAMM perhaps?) Time will tell

It does smell like there might be a new one coming.
Or maybe they want to deal with less of "Hey I just bought the Touch and now I should pay 200 USD for the new OS?"...

Of course a new Ren is near, the Touch was just filler until things get implemented right, then it'll be easy to transfer the new OS to the new hardware. Shame a lot of cats were selling their asses for a Touch thinking it was the flagship.

Yeah the Touch has always seemed like a 'tweener to me. Notably for it's limited Midi, limited input/outputs, plus all the missing buttons. I really really need to have arrow buttons, which is a big reason I've stuck with the Ren. C'mon Ren 2!!!

Ill-Green wrote:Of course a new Ren is near, the Touch was just filler until things get implemented right, then it'll be easy to transfer the new OS to the new hardware. Shame a lot of cats were selling their asses for a Touch thinking it was the flagship.

i feel absolutely the same

Hopefully they drop the price some more, Ill get another one.

funkycoldmedina wrote:Yeah the Touch has always seemed like a 'tweener to me. Notably for it's limited Midi, limited input/outputs, plus all the missing buttons. I really really need to have arrow buttons, which is a big reason I've stuck with the Ren. C'mon Ren 2!!!

Arrow buttons? I'm probably being pretty simple here but please indulge me!
The up down left right buttons?

The price drop is limited time only.

funkycoldmedina wrote:Yeah the Touch has always seemed like a 'tweener to me. Notably for it's limited Midi, limited input/outputs, plus all the missing buttons. I really really need to have arrow buttons, which is a big reason I've stuck with the Ren. C'mon Ren 2!!!

greavous420 wrote:Arrow buttons? I'm probably being pretty simple here but please indulge me!
The up down left right buttons?

Yeah, the missing < > buttons – that was my first "horror" with the Touch.
I got used to using < > to jump by bars with all other MPCs, so when I realized those were missing and that you cannot jump by bars by any quick method...a massive downer for me.