Akai is not fixing issues due to corporate greed

mpc_fan_2022 wrote:

I see you've never worked in development, so it's difficult to imagine.

You don't know me, you should certainly stop making assumptions about people as a failed attempt of sounding as an authority on the matter, especially since you have demonstrated zero knowledge of software development yourself on this thread.

I stand by what I said, it's a product management problem not a "developer's salary" issue.

Akai has to pay out a crap ton to developers as a part of their yearly budget and they would rather those guys spend time working on plugins or add-ons that will make money, rather then going through the list of bugs that people complain about, yet others still manage to put out amazing music using their devices.

That's about 98.5% of Companies in this country

The bug fixes list for 3.7 was on respectable. Hopefully they keep it up.

Bug Fixes

Playback:
• Changing order of tracks during playback no longer causes audio drops.
• Audio tracks will no longer play out of sync when Loop Start is not placed at Bar 1.
• Stutter and audio dropouts no longer occur when switching sequences if Clip Workflow is enabled.
• Reordering tracks while the transport is running will no longer cause audio to be lost on some tracks.
• Metronome is now audible as expected when set to a Mono output.
• Arrangement will no longer stop when changing internal track types while in Sync mode.
• Switching focus to another track will no longer cut off MIDI notes received from an external sequencer.

Arrange View:
• Record on next loop start setting for audio tracks has been repaired.
• Pasting an audio regions during clip playback no longer always places this data at the start of an arrangement.

Control Surface:
• Pad lighting behaviour when entering some menus and Modes has been improved.

Track Edit:
• Changing between tracks in Track Edit no longers causes audio errors.
• MPC’s control surface will no longer drop when changing track rapidly.
• Snap to Zero setting is now working in the Samples page.

Main Mode:
• Deleting a track and then undoing the action no longer breaks that track’s Independent
Track Length setting.Sample Edit:
• Tapping Cancel twice during Stems processing no longer causes a crash.
• Processing a sample slice not longer sets slice selection to All.

Loading and Saving:
• Loading a project with Independent Track Length settings enabled with no value changes now load correctly.
• Pressing the Menu button while the New Project > Save Project reminder dialog is opened no longer causes a crash.

Startup:
• Startup wizard behaviour now respects a user’s “Do not show…” selection when MPC is launched.

Sequence Edit:
• Bounce Sequence to sample option has been restored.
• Deleting bars will no longer remove initial automation event.
• Copy Events now works when a specific pad’s events have been selected.
• A rare crash will no longer occurs using Copy Sequence.

Browser:
• Folder location shortcuts set are now accurately reflected when saving data.

Looper:
• Looper will record in sync when Ableton Link is enabled.

Sampler:
• Starting a recording with TUI buttons has been repaired.

Q-Links:
• Q-Link now display Pitch Bend changes correctly.
• Q-Links are now mapped correctly for Drum Track’s LFO/Utilities/Mod Matrix tabs.
• Mod Matrix Q-Link OLED parameter value displays are now aligned with TUI display .
• Rec Arm Q-Link now updates when a track’s Arm state changed elsewhere.
• Custom track macros for plugins are no longer reset to default when a plugin’s preset is changed.
• Volume mode Q-Links for MIDI tracks have been repaired.Channel Mixer
• Audio input is now visible in Main Mode without needing to visit Channel Mixer view first.
• Audible clicks when adjusting track/pad levels have been improved.

List Edit:
• All values for MIDI CC parameters are now available to enter.

Time Correct:
• Pad lighting when Time Correct popup is displayed has been corrected.

Grid View:
• The grid viewport when in playback with record/overdub enabled now behaves as expected.
• Grid note preview now plays referencing correct Pad X/Y automation value.
• When editing automation, Magnifying Glass tool will no longer behave like the Pencil tool.
• Automation lane display changes have been made more responsive when moving events.

Song Mode:
• Using Record and entering sequences with pads no longer erases the current track.
• Using Record + Play will play back the first sequence correctly.

Clip Matrix:
• Edit Clip/Region will now respect current clip selection.

Sounds Mode:
• Selecting a plugin preset in Favorites will now change the active plugin preset.

Pad Perform:
• Custom MIDI mapping will no longer causes notes to draw incorrectly in Grid view.
• Aftertouch values are now set correctly when Aftertouch is disabled.
• Stuck notes when when using Progressions have been corrected.

MIDI Learn:
• Reordering track positions will no longer break learned MIDI mappings.Undo History:
• Crash will no longer occur when redoing an action after Undo History has been cleared.

Undo History:
• Crash will no longer occur when redoing an action after Undo History has been cleared.

There are also some known issues that will probably be done for OS 3.8:

Known Issues
• MIDI Aftertouch and Pad X/Y Position automations are not captured when recording Clips to Arrange.
• Activations including Pro Pack & Clip workflow occasionally deactivate on start up.
• Q-link order is sometimes wrong in the Touch Strip config when in Q-Link mode.
• Track Edit - Envelope decay value is hard to set as desired between 0 - 700ms due to acceleration.
• Sample Edit - Start/End points can be changed after placing a sample on an Audio track.
• MPC XL - Step Sequencer Track Mute buttons can get into state where a track adjacent to a user’s selection is muted.
• MPCe graphic is visible in Track Edit > Tune/Mix tab for keygroups.
• Track Mute - After duplicating/deleting a track, edits can apply to the wrong group.
• Cancelling an MPC2 project import results in empty project with no Outputs available.

Lampdog wrote:OG X currently on v3.5 and XL came with v3.5.1, I noticed many of the bugs/oddities.

XL now on v3.7.0 and I've now noticed these things are worked out and/or smoother than before.

The biggest one I ran into was COPY SEQUENCE.
EVERYTIME. Crash. E-V-E-R-Y-T-I-M-E.

3.6 was crash city!
I've had 10 shutdowns. Just tried 3.7 this week & I found a bug & later it crashed, but at least they're fixing other problems.

Lampdog wrote:Yeah, but, someone told me Akai is not fixing issues due to corporate greed.
What was said and then what was posted doesn’t jive and is at odds with each other.

What the he’ll.

He'll Yeah!

Lampdog wrote:Yeah, but, someone told me Akai is not fixing issues due to corporate greed.
What was said and then what was posted doesn’t jive and is at odds with each other.

What the he’ll.

If you read the first post you'll notice that I don't say that Akai doesn't fix any issues.
I mention three very specific issues which are not fixed, most likely due to corporate greed.

They want you to own a single device and buy all their plugins to it, and be happy the rest of your life since they solved everything for you

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BeatWilson wrote:I seen buddy say he works in gaming/dev since 2011. I work in film/gaming, and they do get paid about 90k - 150kCAD, but it really is painful to see a company put so much time coding new plugins, or even manufacturing new products(many new ones...) before even fixing issues.

I feel like they gas lighting us hella.
Remember when they showed the MpcX with Hdmi Out then released it without?
I won't forget.

They will say they are working on addressing issues, but completely ignore the issues to spend more money on dev's to create plugins, make new sample packs or port their software to other devices.
It's a kick to the nuts.

To put out a MpcXL, where all they did was move the qlinks, add buttons, and usb-c audio is not worth 1300.00cad extra $$$'s than the Original X on a device where I am the beta tester, again... They didn't even add extra inputs or a way to use all 6 inputs at once(i could be wrong). On the X ya could only use the 4 on the back or the 2 on the back and 2 on the front, not all at the same time. That's a small issue. If I went into bigger ones we be here for a while.

InMusic/Akai are not a great company.
They have and will release good products here and there, but as for the price and if its worth the headache? It's really depends on the product. I hear good things about Denon and they are InMusic. It's hit and miss and I feel the XL is sorta a miss for the price. All good though. Maybe a new update will roll out to change my opinion, for now.. I'm more suspicious of Akai just not wanting to waste the time addressing bugs because they don't believe it will sell units.

Fine by me. I will shop elsewhere for now.

I just wanted to say I just bought a One Gen2. If Akai is gonna go the way of like a mobile phone company I will leave. I refuse to be used when it’s my money. I purchased the 5000 before this. I was very tempted by them “teenagers”. I really like their style but Akai won me over. However I’ve already seen they discontinued the One +. Does that mean support will stop? When you upgrade will your MPC all the sudden start acting weird?

I’m telling you, if Akai starts stuff like that I will walk away and never look back!

Mana wrote:However I’ve already seen they discontinued the One +. Does that mean support will stop? When you upgrade will your MPC all the sudden start acting weird?

I guess it depends what you mean by 'support'. When it comes to the MPC standalone firmware, Akai have yet to stop supporting any of the standalone models, including the original MPC Live and MPC X from 9 years ago, the latest 3.9 installs fine. It's possible that the gen 1 models will eventually struggle to cope with features optimised for 64 bit CPU, but so far, no major issues on the 9 year old machines.

Controller mode is a slightly different matter, latest MacOS currently does not have a driver for the MPC Live 1, so that's a little disappointing, but ultimately, 9 year old machine and MacOS is a nightmare in this respect.

If you purchased an MPC within the past 12 months, it's still fully supported under Akai's worldwide warranty. And if a new firmware doesn't fly with your old MPC you can always downgrade firmware if you need to.

I just wish they’d implement a tagging system in the file browser and an easy way to assign template status to projects

BeatWilson wrote:To put out a MpcXL, where all they did was move the qlinks, add buttons, and usb-c audio is not worth 1300.00cad extra $$$'s than the Original X on a device where I am the beta tester, again... They didn't even add extra inputs or a way to use all 6 inputs at once(i could be wrong). On the X ya could only use the 4 on the back or the 2 on the back and 2 on the front, not all at the same time. That's a small issue. If I went into bigger ones we be here for a while.

If you need more inputs or outputs, I'd hook up something like my Tascam Model 24 mixer. 24 ins and outs, that make the MPC a great machine.