Akai teams up w/ iZotope for Ren timestretching capabilities

http://www.gearjunkies.com/news_info.php?news_id=7116

After seeing this and Saint Joe's video I'm 99% sold on a Ren .

Nice. They are #winning right now with this sw piece they are putting together.

I wanted the fly for travel but the studio will work just as well and even better with these features.

the slice engine looks dope

After all the mugging them off, i think a lot of people will buy one.

Now this is DOPE!

rookie wrote"I think what there doing is pretty dope,no more limited memory or hard drive space + they can upgrade the software to keep up with all the new trends.I'm sure they'll link with a major software company to intergate with their software to stay relevant.beside's who knows what 2.0 will bring.just my take"

AKAI Making MJ Moves.

Lampdog wrote:Me, Studio for travel.

Best of both worlds with the Studio. Just thought how easy it is to roll with the Mac Mini and the MPC Studio. I don't even need to bring the monitor... just use the HDMI OUT to a flatscreen TV anywhere I'm chllin with a pair of headphones.
The Mac Mini, Wireless Keyboard, and Magic Mouse together with the MPC Studio is still smaller than my MPC1000. My boy just bought a 72" TV. So it's gonna be easy as hell to pack it all up and set up in 5 seconds. Can't wait to see what Reason 6 looks like on a 72" screen. But I'm not lugging out the Axiom 49. I gotta keep it nice and sell it ASAP. The MAX 49 is calling my name. So I gotta go with that before anything else.

The MPC line is the most recent of many popular products that license this world-class algorithm for natural and transparent time stretching and pitch shifting.

Dope
Izotope Radius is pretty good for timestretching stuff

**** wrote:

The MPC line is the most recent of many popular products that license this world-class algorithm for natural and transparent time stretching and pitch shifting.

Logic uses it as well.....

No surprise Akai had to outsource the software.

It's still offline timestretch though.

emptysea wrote:No surprise Akai had to outsource the software.

It's still offline timestretch though.

Versus Maschine not having any time stretch at all...its 2012. Been waiting 3 years for a function that all samples have had since the 90s.

NI has to come hard on their new Maschine. I hope they come hard. In its current state, it won't sell when the MPC Studio is released.

JAH wrote:

emptysea wrote:No surprise Akai had to outsource the software.

It's still offline timestretch though.

Versus Maschine not having any time stretch at all...its 2012. Been waiting 3 years for a function that all samples have had since the 90s.

Except that you can use realtime timestretch in Maschine RIGHT NOW while these new "MPC"s are still proof-of-concept, work-in-progress prototypes that won't see the light of day for a long time.