AKAI MPC 2.1 firmware update at the NAMM 2018

Checking out the latest AKAI MPC 2.1 firmware update at the 2018 NAMM Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYGl7ZpymO8

What a shit video, he didn’t say anything about what 2.1 actually fixed or added!

They've added the expansion tab that's already there in controller mode, but as nothing else mentioned I suspect it's nothing more than a basic 2.0.9 maintenance release renamed to 2.1 to make it sound more newsworthy at namm.

alrite! who was that guy, who told em, that we need pictures of expansions, first and foremost?!

sleepytm wrote:alrite! who was that guy, who told em, that we need pictures of expansions, first and foremost?!

A few of people asked for it, but in controller mode you still can’t search by tag so it’s pointless.

Why its always gotta be what the few asked for, why can't it be what the majority asked for?

Hear...hear...^^^

More Akai iconic workflow.

Dude was talking big on gs a ways back, was thinking they would drop something a little “more”. Oh well, ain’t nothing stopping me from making beats on the thing.

Was there ever a "huge" update?

In every forum I have been involved with that centered around electronic music equipment, the complaints were always the same - not enough soon enough and/or too many bugs in the existing software or firmware. It seems to be a universal problem between the producer and the consumer.

I suppose one solution might be to Open Source the firmware and let the users have at it, like Roger Linn does with the Linnstrument midi controller. You can download the source code, download the development environment, and code to your heart's content. Short of that, the gap between what users want and what a company can/will invest in development will always exist.

Hopefully, the manufacturers spend at least a bit of time reading the major forums for their products to find out what folks really want. If so, then threads like this can be quite useful for both producer and consumer.

Tony

1:50 time on the MPC Live and that's it? Waste of time. Just come with the updates Akai smh

Inclined to agree with Tutor, more likely a maintenance update than any big feature update. The guy said as much on the vid. Made reference to it being stability & bug fixes more than anything else.
The expansion tab is mere window dressing.
No new features/improvements to see here, people.
Carry on regardless.

sleepytm wrote:alrite! who was that guy, who told em, that we need pictures of expansions, first and foremost?!

Hey sleepy dammit! I asked for it lmao.. jokes anyway would be nice if he said it worked with custom expansions you created.. really i would bypass that both software up .. really ....but i will install it when its released my chair..

2 years in a row they didn't let the public in the akai booth! You are really losing my respect akai after giving you thousands of dollars of my hard earned money