MPC-Tutor wrote:Akai are not giving up on the MPC Software, they've clearly identified a market out there that they really want to tap into, but so far I believe it's eluding them. They've tried pushing it to third party controllers (I don't think there was much interest), they've tried using MPC Beats (seems pretty quiet on that front), so I think the new MPC Studio is another way of trying to appeal to a certain type of producer. For them there's no complex hardware screen UI to code for, and perhaps no need for a custom driver making updates easier, so it's probably quite a painless experiment.
Yeah that makes sense a lot.
And then, you put a tablet on it and it's a standalone, so it's also a good way to check for new standalones improvements.
But still I ask myself why they removed qlinks, which is a consistent part of any Mpc.
Ok, there is a touch strip which is also a good idea, but qlinks are 4 (or 8 ), touch strip is 1.
So it's a downgrade from current Mpc line.