Nah.. We shouldn’t settle for this, What happened to all the cats that used to raise noise about these shortcomings? What happened to those MPC wariors that wanted to spend their precious time and creativity coocking up some cool beats instead of looking for alternatives and workarounds??
I know how business works and that’s the main reason (apart from wanting to enjoy my X) I’m making this noise.
Nothing’s gonna change if we just sit back and accept being played into Larry’s game.
We need those guys wearing those three-piece suits at Akai headquarters to skip the caviar for a minute and stop playing games with us and barge into the software develpment room and round those floor managers up to tell those devs to get it done!
You know what, skip that. Where is Larry? Can someone please get Larry the lead software engineer in here?
Rookie intern: Sir, Larry is bussy with his team trying to enhance the Splice experience for the MPC users base.
Akai boss wearing the fanciest three-pieced suit: Go and get Larry and his team now!
5 minutes later: Larry and his team walk into the board room.. Y-Y-Y-Y-Yes, sir you’ve called?
Akai boss wearing the fanciest three-pieced suit slams his hand on the flip board erasing half of the splice roadmap integration plans.
Akai Boss:
Larry, the MPC community have spoken, as a matter of fact they’ve been asking about this stuff for years and they say that they don’t want splice services or ableton link intergraded into their MPC’s, as a matter of fact they want the arranger, they want a modern style mixer, they want disk streaming, they wan’t to be able to rearange the track order because they love to keep things in order Larry.
That means that the piano keygroup track that they came up with today, they want be able to place it next to track 4, that’s the piano keygroup track they layed down last month. They don’t want it at track 24!
Why aren’t you listening to them?? Am I not paying you enough Larry?? And why the h3ll are you guys standing in here smelling like nail polish?? What the h3ll is happening down there Larry??
Listen, Last monday we dropped 3.1.0 for the Force community. All packed up with all kinds of bells, whistles and Mojo. You know Larry, I love checking the boards over at MPC-forums.com from time to time, it’s great website visited by the majority of our MPC users base. (You should check in sometimes Larry for learning purposes). But today Larry, I’ve stumbled across this post of one of our loyal customers named Zangetsu01 saying that: “it feels like the MPC’s are the Force’s little b!tches”
What the fu€#% Larry? I almost chocked while I was reading that sh!t and trying to swallow some European flatt oyster at the dinner table. Are you trying to k!ll our business here?
I mean the automation of the submix and master busses, why the h3ll did you put it in the Force first? Are you trying to piss them off?? Didn’t you know that they’re the ones that asked for it first?
This is 2021, So why is it impossible for them to freeze tracks in controller mode so they can free up some ram and ease the stress on their CPU’s?
When they feel like tweaking the track some more they need to be able to unfreeze those tracks so they can tweak away until they’re satisfied!
Listen team..!! From now on this the new roadmap it’s very simple but still I want you to take notes and make sure to even get it straight even when I call you up in the middle of the night:
1) First we fix those bugs;
2) Than we implement basic functionality like the arranger and the new mixer;
3) And lastly we try to trow in some small fry like splice.
Are you still listening Larry?
Larry: Sir!! Yes Sir..!! Splice..!!
Akai boss: No, Focus Larry..!! Focus..!!
Larry: Sir..!!
Akai boss: Let me continue:
4) Guy’s Top it off with some Mojo and hand it over to the beta testers.
5) After 2 months of beta testing take 3 weeks to a month to fix stuff based on their feedback and show the Beta testers some appreciation by telling them that the bounce to sample feature has been fixed after all these years and finally bounces their samples to 24 bit instead of 16 when needed.
Okay enough of me joking around but these are modern times folks, people don’t want to buy 4 raggend pieces of socks just to make it a pair.
*Btw, Larry is just an fictional character that I came up with. So no Disrespect to anyone with a similar name intended*.