Saint Joe At Akai Stand

Thought it might be of intrest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohloxZqX1Kc

LifeMusic wrote:Thought it might be of intrest.

Is there a link or somethin' to click along with your OP?

is he gonna be promoting the beat thang there?

shit my bad
Wanted everyone to digg for it.
corrected

history of akai mpcs....

akai mpc60 - limited os - expanded by roger linn....
akai mpc3000 - limited os - expanded by vallaxi
akai mpc1k, akai mpc2.5k - limited os - expanded by JJ
akai mpc4000 - unfinised os...still some bugs
akai mpc5000 unfinished os......still some bugs

only the akai 2000 and 2000xl are the ones with stable limited software and no one to expand it hehehe

sorry mpc500 folks

watching joes vid.......look as if they renaisance aint all what it seems...YET....they are at namm and demoing it with a notebook that doesnt even have VSTs installed ....i guess that bit needs to be coded properly first before they try and show it...

i was just talking to him and he said that everything is backwards compatable with akai os, so im assuming that means all models of mpc.

he didnt know for sure about jjos yet though, but he said he would check for me.

Fair play to Joe. He was asking all the right questions.

gertie wrote:history of akai mpcs....

akai mpc60 - limited os - expanded by roger linn....
akai mpc3000 - limited os - expanded by vallaxi
akai mpc1k, akai mpc2.5k - limited os - expanded by JJ
akai mpc4000 - unfinised os...still some bugs
akai mpc5000 unfinished os......still some bugs

only the akai 2000 and 2000xl are the ones with stable limited software and no one to expand it hehehe

sorry mpc500 folks

watching joes vid.......look as if they renaisance aint all what it seems...YET....they are at namm and demoing it with a notebook that doesnt even have VSTs installed ....i guess that bit needs to be coded properly first before they try and show it...

The MPCs with the "unfinished" OS are the most powerful MPCs. The MPCs running the JJ OS still have a number of bugs. If you are going to report...at least be objective.

JAH wrote:The MPCs with the "unfinished" OS are the most powerful MPCs. The MPCs running the JJ OS still have a number of bugs. If you are going to report...at least be objective.

At least someone's constantly developing stuff, rather than totally ignoring customers and feature/bug-fix requests.

What does "most powerful" mean here? Last time I checked 1k & 2500 are now many times more the machines compared to what they used to be.

m:t:c wrote:

JAH wrote:The MPCs with the "unfinished" OS are the most powerful MPCs. The MPCs running the JJ OS still have a number of bugs. If you are going to report...at least be objective.

At least someone's constantly developing stuff, rather than totally ignoring customers and feature/bug-fix requests.

What does "most powerful" mean here? Last time I checked 1k & 2500 are now many times more the machines compared to what they used to be.

Believe me....I am fully aware that the MPC 2500/1000 are much more powerful with the JJ OS. I wouldn't use these MPCs without the JJ OS. But I don't get caught up on who is creating the OS. Its a very popluar thing to do in these forums to bash Akai (and some have good reason to). But in the end, you are still using an Akai MPC. There is no point for Akai to put more development in the MPC 2500/1000 when you have one of the original programmers doing it. Its a symbiotic relationship. There is nothing more here to debate. At some point, its time to move on.

As the first adopted of the MPC 5000 in this forum, I was so excited. It had some bugs with its first OS. (like all new software-based products). There was some features I wanted to see added. OS2 gave me nearly everything I wanted. There were over 2 dozen features (many ideas came directly from this forum) added. The MPC 5000 is a good MPC. It could use an update to fix some minor things. But it is still provides you everything you need in an MPC. It doesn't need a bunch of OS updates adding new features...

Today, we have these new MPCs coming out. If you look through old feature requests threads here and at the NI Forum, you will see that these products are exactly what many users have asked for. As mentioned in Saint Joe's video, the OS is evolving and the feedback from forums members are being listened to. The MPC Ren looks even better in the video. I can't wait to get my hands on it. I can't wait for other forum members to pick one up and provide feedback on their experiences with it. Then hopefully we can have less threads about "price complaints" and "I hate Akai based on my friend's experience with the MPC 1000s pads that happened 6 years ago."

Enjoy these new MPCs...because I am sure I will. I am getting both the MPC Ren and Studio...

Link to vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUBNougUnGQ

This guy didnt know anything just yet because the sw isnt finished. but its showing a lot of promise. i'm impressed.

did I hear him say there wont be an mPC 5000 update. but then again he dont seems to know hardly anything. lol but its cool to get a closer look.

thanks Saint Joe

JAH wrote:

m:t:c wrote:

JAH wrote:The MPC Ren looks even better in the video. I can't wait to get my hands on it. I can't wait for other forum members to pick one up and provide feedback on their experiences with it.

C/S... The MPC Ren looks like some next level sh*t... Dope!

psr wrote:did I hear him say there wont be an mPC 5000 update. but then again he dont seems to know hardly anything.

That was Andy Mac, he's one of the main product specialists from Akai, he's very knowledgeable - I'm pretty confident he's very much up to speed on all the products there. He does say that there's still more work to be done on both hardware and software.

I thought those two vids from Saint Joe are very insightful. Good stuff.

Great video.. Looks promising. Wish he had asked WHEN & HOW MUCH!? it would have been great to get an estimate directly from that guy. Does anybody have any new info on release date?

Did anyone catch what I just heard on that video?

The MPC60 and 3000 modes are not DSP, but real circuitry in the output.

This is getting more interesting by the day.