What New Synth Or Synth Ideas Should Akai Add Next?

I would love to see a new interface for drumsynth,similar to the desktop version. I like the dsynth but hate the interface and therefore it doesn‘t inspire me or invite me to play as much as i would like.

Lampdog wrote:Triton’s have been doing vocoders since forever ago.
Kronos2 has the vocoder as well.
Pretty sure Nautilus has it too, just a diff gui, but, damn near all functions all same as Kronos2.

Some great suggestions. If I had enough I'd buy them all lol. I can never be without enough tools to mask my nerdy ass voice.

LOts of Vocoder apps have an internal synth as the carrier but if that could make one which allowed external that would be amazing to have inside the MPC. I'm also a lover of robot voices fx. I have Vocodex by imageline which is a great vocoder VST. They put one inside the Microfreak, but I've not tried it yet as I need to make a special cable for it.

Vital has a really cool process called text to speech where you can type in anything you want to say. Choose a nationality, and it creates a voice with that accent, you can then mangle it, change it's gender. Really great when playing chords through it. It works better to break the sentence into chucks, as each process creates a wavetable, so you get more definition in shorter phrases.

I picked up a talk box this year, the one where you put the tube in your mouth and you play the synth into the the speaker in the box, through the tube and into a mic. Real old school effect. Take a bit of getting used to though, and you can end up dribbling down your face. You have pronounce the consonance, and just make the shapes of the vowels, which is easer said than done.

Vocoder fx are also great for putting drums through instead of a voice, and creating rhythmical synth percussion, which are harmonically related to the track.

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Shits about to get real!

Lampdog wrote:Something like this inside mpc.

This would be dope! You could run all kinds of stuff thru that thing, but I think it would make for better FX so we could use on any track or give us a way to run any track into it if it was a synth. Either way I want it!

Vocoder like this in the mpc.

Maybe a port over of the VCV rack stuff. You get modular, and plenty of open-source stuff to plaay with.

Vocoder is cool.
Or maybe one of the U-HE synths, pay him a fee?

cmackg wrote:Maybe a port over of the VCV rack stuff. You get modular, and plenty of open-source stuff to plaay with.

Vocoder is cool.
Or maybe one of the U-HE synths, pay him a fee?

Wishful thinking.. VCV rack would eat the MPC's cpu alive, as would just about the entire lot of uHE synths.. No way Diva, Zebra or Repro are happening without seriously gutting the plugins. Maybe a Hive Lite but I cant see any of the other ones working on the MPC without some serious corner cutting..

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Yes a choir synth plug-in would be dope!

The greatest synth idea of all in my opinion is if multi sample patches were part of a library that was referenced so we wouldn’t have to go on a ram cleaning spree after trying out a few patches so as to not blow up our project files with stuff that’s not even in the project.
It really makes me not use any multi samples and I have stopped buying packs simply because it’s too annoying for me to manage memory every single time by deleting all those pgms and the purging.
Just do what NI does and give us a library from which key groups are referenced without ending up in project files.

johnnytravels wrote:It really makes me not use any multi samples and I have stopped buying packs simply because it’s too annoying for me to manage memory every single time by deleting all those pgms and the purging.

Agree w this

I'd like some house keeping done on the some of the provided synths
Drum Synth - Reduced to two options. Multi and single (and be able to select the type from within)
Jura - Make the Drive, Saturation, and analogue feel more pronounced. They are way too subtle to the point of thinking it's a placebo , reviewers pointed it out on release. 100% should be too much, not 'is this doing anything'
OPx-4 - make the sin wave a true sin wave, even better, keep the original, and provide a selection of basic waves such as provided on 4 Operator synths DX11 and TX81Z. Also there are 9 folders of menus at the bottom of the screen, but only space for 6, so you have to scroll. These could easily be condensed to 6, such as SubMix and Sample Layer and setting all under Main. To get to Modulation Menu 5 you have to scroll 4 times, before selecting Modulation and the 5, 6 presses instead of 2. Beiing able to series and parallel the filters would be nice too.