By BuleriaChk
Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:30 pm
Methinks he doth protest too much .....
BuleriaChk wrote:Still no triple meter (3/4) or at least loop length of 12 (as far as I can tell from the manual). Underwhelming, to say the least. NI's Maschine+ is eating Force's lunch. The guys that design Force are either idiots, or producing for a four-on-the-floor idiot base.
Just my opinion; idiots may differ...
BuleriaChk wrote:Methinks he doth protest too much .....
Koekepan wrote:Ultros: I'm pleased with that news. Quite likely a libc update will improve general stability and possibly even performance, so it's good to know that Akai's programmers are taking care of business, even if it's temporarily inconvenient to the hacking end.
Koekepan wrote:Anyway, on a more relevant level: Pincho-Paxton, there are multiple versions of the update, including for running on Windows, Mac, or directly from a USB stick. Which one did you grab and what is happening?
Ultros wrote:They are indeed using the same code base, their operating system is linux and both force and MPC firmwares use the same linux build. theres only a few details that differ. Some strings around the os and the daw software itself. However with the new force firmware came a new linux environment, it seems akai has updated the os this time. There's a new version of libc so no mpc force combo firmwares until MPC catches up. The combo firmware uses 2.10.0 mpc software and 3.0.6 force software for now as they both rely on the same version of libc.
Koekepan wrote:Coffeesounds: I guess the thing here is that the MPCs let you change sound sources across tracks, because the Force doesn't really have that, so I would speculate that that inhibits direct translation.
I like the Force, don't get me wrong, but in this sense it adheres more closely to the Ableton model.