By BeatWilson
Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:01 pm
I know this is ridiculous and a lot of people know this 90% will not happen BUT....
If NI Made a Standalone Maschine (Ive seen a custom one made years ago) then it would be over. If this very far fetched idea happens i would hope they would change the style of pads, maybe the screen, add in and outs, more midi, more Ram than the MPC Live(which shouldn't be too hard) sd card reader or USB. Add a Up Fader and Id be SO DOWN. But since even NI Kontrol mixer only has a Hardware filter and everything else they create is midi, I don't have expectations of them ever making something like that.
I don't know how Akai didn't just take all the features from the MPC 2500 or 4000, then go from there. Its like they jumped or skipped steps... Its just a huge turn off... If there were an updated version of an older product I expect the old features plus the new ones. Not to say they haven't done something right... Its just definitely half baked...
Ya gotta think... in the video game industry, a ps4 console is 350.00 Canadian.. it has 8 Gigs of Ram! Check out there processors and price. I find the pricing of electronic musical instruments out of whack with close to the same technology but different pricing in other departments because ones for music and ones for something else. So much technology released half baked in every department(computers, video games, software, music hardware and software), over priced because its trending and not because its actually specs...
Kinda lame world of marketing we live in... FFS
This being said i think I'm still gonna stay on preorder since i only paid 10% and i hope they add the basic features they are missing. A lot of the new stuff as well i don't care for. Just the basics, automation editing and time stretch. Then id be happy-isn
If NI Made a Standalone Maschine (Ive seen a custom one made years ago) then it would be over. If this very far fetched idea happens i would hope they would change the style of pads, maybe the screen, add in and outs, more midi, more Ram than the MPC Live(which shouldn't be too hard) sd card reader or USB. Add a Up Fader and Id be SO DOWN. But since even NI Kontrol mixer only has a Hardware filter and everything else they create is midi, I don't have expectations of them ever making something like that.
I don't know how Akai didn't just take all the features from the MPC 2500 or 4000, then go from there. Its like they jumped or skipped steps... Its just a huge turn off... If there were an updated version of an older product I expect the old features plus the new ones. Not to say they haven't done something right... Its just definitely half baked...
Ya gotta think... in the video game industry, a ps4 console is 350.00 Canadian.. it has 8 Gigs of Ram! Check out there processors and price. I find the pricing of electronic musical instruments out of whack with close to the same technology but different pricing in other departments because ones for music and ones for something else. So much technology released half baked in every department(computers, video games, software, music hardware and software), over priced because its trending and not because its actually specs...
Kinda lame world of marketing we live in... FFS
This being said i think I'm still gonna stay on preorder since i only paid 10% and i hope they add the basic features they are missing. A lot of the new stuff as well i don't care for. Just the basics, automation editing and time stretch. Then id be happy-isn
Last edited by BeatWilson on Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:09 pm, edited 2 times in total.