B-Wise wrote:Certified Beatz wrote:.. to much click clack sound
Like a fake gangsta rapper
I hate that sound too. The RS7000 had that issue. I put clear tape over the buttons & it greatly reduced the noise.
looking around to see if I got bullet holes in my wallsEnochLight wrote:I love the click/clack sound of this style of buttons, but what I hate is the useless area inside of each button - no labels indicating a shift+feature.. just - a light:
Certified Beatz wrote:Its like the design team ran out of ideas for the layout...
jpeg wrote:i guess having the quadrant pads on those smaller devices would of been a big ask
at least the CPU power is upped and the RAM only marginally updated, but understandably there has to be some trade offs but the updated CPU is the key aspect
JethroJethro wrote:EnochLight wrote:I love the click/clack sound of this style of buttons, but what I hate is the useless area inside of each button - no labels indicating a shift+feature.. just - a light:
It was awful in the dark. Bright ass buttons make your pupils constrict rhen you can’t see the labels. Which you need because no matter what gear you came from the Key has a weird layout.
kday wrote:upgraded CPU .., upgraded memory boards … it offers really nothing new worth upgrading for, for current owners to sell their old original red Key 37.
JethroJethro wrote:kday wrote:upgraded CPU .., upgraded memory boards … it offers really nothing new worth upgrading for, for current owners to sell their old original red Key 37.
Not everyone just does boom bap
jpeg wrote:what has boom bap got to do with his statement regarding lack of new features on gen2 key 37?
JethroJethro wrote:jpeg wrote:what has boom bap got to do with his statement regarding lack of new features on gen2 key 37?
He said it has improved CPU and RAM yet has “nothing” worth upgrading for. Those are pretty big improvements, unless you’re a boom bap person who does sample based music and don’t need the extra power.
Melodic techno, dubstep, cinematic, ambient, synth pop.. plenty of other styles have lots of synths and effects. Not everyone is here trying to be Pete Rock.
Certified Beatz wrote:Boom Bap is a genre of hip-hop that's sample base but could be layered with Spitfire strings that would take ram. Pete rock hip-hop era was limited to sp1200 and mpc3000.. you can still make hip-hop east coast beats that use alot of ram..
JethroJethro wrote:Certified Beatz wrote:Boom Bap is a genre of hip-hop that's sample base but could be layered with Spitfire strings that would take ram. Pete rock hip-hop era was limited to sp1200 and mpc3000.. you can still make hip-hop east coast beats that use alot of ram..
I think you missed the sentence that was right before what you were responding to: “Melodic techno, dubstep, cinematic, ambient, synth pop.. plenty of other styles have lots of synths and effects.”
I run an X and a Force alongside each other and still sometimes get CPU warnings doing EDM. And that’s with me sometimes also using a third device for wavetable synths. If I only had one device the $300 RAM upgrade would have been a must-do.
Fringe examples aside, EDM is generally a lot more CPU intensive than hip hop yes even Trap. Hey man I love hip hop even lost a ton of hearing working in a Dirty South club (Five On It also permanently ringing in my head ywars later). But the reality is on a technical level hip hop is not very demanding of equipment. Which literally is how and why it came into existence.
Anyhow, at the rate music and short attention spans are going it won’t be long until Akai releases a dumbed down device that pretty much only does Splice. And we’ll be right back where we started. #MPC Splice #MPC Splice Retro #MPC Splice XL lol
