MPC Stems - Coming Soon

Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:Anyone who has managed backlog for a software product will tell you that overhaul of a mature product with mostly content users will never happen, especially on the tail end of a product lifecycle.
On the other hand, setting a small fraction of resources aside from new feature development to keep a small but steady stream of dealing with minor irritants that are easy fixes maintains buyer's trust, so I'm hopeful for marginal quality of life improvements.

Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:

jpeg wrote:3.0 was purported to be a system overhaul

Anyone who has managed backlog for a software product will tell you that overhaul of a mature product with mostly content users will never happen, especially on the tail end of a product lifecycle.

On the other hand, setting a small fraction of resources aside from new feature development to keep a small but steady stream of dealing with minor irritants that are easy fixes maintains buyer's trust, so I'm hopeful for marginal quality of life improvements.

jpeg wrote:how do u know akai is at the tail end of the product lifecycle? for all u know they could be mid-life cycle.

MPC-Tutor wrote:

jpeg wrote:why are u so against the notion of a 3.0? .

Not sure how much more clear I have to be, so I'll try to say it in slightly different words.

I'm against the obsession some people have that Akai must still make a big grand '3.0' release, despite several years of continually releasing a stream of rather large updates, many of which would have easily been worthy of a '3.0' release. If you asked someone back in 2019 whether the inclusion of plugins and audio midi interface support would have been '3.0' worthy, they would have bitten your hand off.

As I said, it's really not about people wanting a '3.0' as such, it more about people wanting disk streaming and the arranger (and possibly the tie in with the mythical 'gen 2 hardware'). They just seem to expect these features can only come with some kind of a '3.0' release, but that clearly no longer the case, Akai can just release any of these features at any time, possibly as another $$ unlock and just use whatever version numbers they feel like.

None of this obsession with version numbers matters when you have a company already continually releasing regular big updates. Seriously, it's not like Akai are sitting on their hands is it? Every time I see people moaning about the lack of 3.0 they just come across as a bit delusional considering everything we've seen added since the 2019 '3.0' post from Dan Gill.

So yes, everything about '3.0' winds me up and I will continue to get wound up about it until Akai just go ahead and release 'a' 3.0 just to shut people up (yeah, like that will work )

Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:

jpeg wrote:how do u know akai is at the tail end of the product lifecycle? for all u know they could be mid-life cycle.

RK3288, the platform for all contemporary MPC, is out of production - so all current MPC productions draw on a god-knows-how-big stock.

So, Akai has to be considering the future platform (RK3588, RK3566, not Rockchip ?) for the medium term, after having saturated every last market niche with increasingly improbable packagings of the current generation's platform - I half expect a MPC crammed in the Akai EWI USB form factor, so we can finally blow our MPC !

jpeg wrote:
stems is not an easy or small fix but they are putting resources behind it; so they are still in the mode of adding major new features and that is not indictive of a product that is end of life cycle.

jpeg wrote:where is JJOS when u need him(or them) am sure the same team that did JJ would do some crazy shit with this current mpc platform

johnnytravels wrote:…. I expect Akai to overhaul their file system, library, content management (and frankly, I could also do with a better look of the OS).

jpeg wrote:

marctronixx wrote:i had the denon dj prime 4+ -- i was going to start djin' but realized i didnt have time so i sold it, but i had the stems firmware. we kinda were in effect beta testers as inmusic only released it for the prime 4+ at that time. doing stems standalone is amazing and the firmware was not that bad. you put a little small room reverb on the vocal and spin in another beat -- it was fire. no doubt when this comes to the mpc it will be nice. i see some of yall are beta testers so thats kool and the gang! i saw the "malo beats" (sp?) dude show it off and it was brilliant.

how long did it take to do stems on a whole song? and is the ram and process specs of the prime lesser then the mpc?

marctronixx wrote:i think the prime4 has a different processor than the mpc but thats speculation. it has the same screen as the mpcx and the UI is so reminiscent of the mpc.