Akai, Do You Hear Us? [Professional Rant]

TXDelta1010 wrote:First of all, I'm very impressed in the last 2-3 years with the designs and hardware akai has presented to the world. The advance series is crushing it,

3.) Better way to chop samples - Well I'm proud of the 1.8-1.9 new updates, imo, it seems more complicated chopping samples in the latest updates. I.6 seemed very straight forward like the 1000, 2500, etc. Just KISS it akai (keep it simple).

do u think the advanced keyobards were good? the keys and build quality was good, but I thought the on screen navigation was fiddly.

I dont get why they did not go with a touch screen interface for the keyboards also?

and hopefully they can further develop the VIP software and find some way that the app can auto detect vst preset.

far as the chopping being complicated; I dont think u are obliged to use the new chop options as u can still employ the previous chop methods if you are more comfortable with those

greavous420 wrote:

TXDelta1010 wrote:
I understand what you are saying (e.g. adding a limiter, then doing again when you bounce = distortion and no more headroom), but sometimes I like to add a warmth plugin that just shapes the sound without compression, or eq a track right before bouncing, and we just can't do that right now. What if I wanted to add a vintage mode plugin on the master? I'd have to bounce them one by one then.

Regardless, I think it should be implemented. Cubase, FLStudio, and many other DAWS have it. Just would make the workflow 2x better imo.

Why not just have that plugin on the master in the DAW you are importing the stems into for mixing?

Well let's say you have something sweet yet heavy such as Manley Massive Passive on the master and you want all your tracks to benefit from it.