MPC-Tutor wrote:Akai don't provide any commentary on upcoming releases, and beta testers are under an NDA, so you'll just have to wait and see what happens. All the issues are being reported so it's up to the devs to prioritise what gets fixed or added.
Not directed at the o.p. specifically, but I do think people need to get over this '3.0' thing, I'd rather see smaller incremental releases that fix all the existing bugs and remedy all those niggling omissions instead of some big, dramatic feature-packed release inevitably riddled with bugs and half-finished new features (e.g. just like 2.0). I do think however that most of '3.0-gate' stems from Dan Gill previously saying things like 'oh, that will have to be a 3.0 thing' when someone requested a new feature via Gearslutz (sorry, gearspace...). Actually, he probably only said it a couple of times, but you know what people are like.
In all fairness to Akai, they aren't exactly holding back with new features, there's been plenty of existing 2.x releases that could have been worthy of a '3.0' tag. Version numbers are all a bit arbitrary really.
I feel you on the 3.0 thing, which is why I didn’t go back to any of the previous 3.0 threads. You are correct that Akai didn’t hold back on added features. They’ve packed more in than I ever thought they would. The enhanced MIDI and improved time stretch were big. But song mode not converting time sig and tempo info, inactive pads on muted tracks, the cumbersome mixer, qlink not following screen selection (clumsy UI) should be fixed and improved by now, right? Yeah I could have used more mod options, or interesting MIDI tricks but workflow is king.
Not here to hate at all. I want pick one up again and still have hope an update can address some of the issues that affected my opinion of the OS.