It's incredibly fascinating how regardless of how it's worded, people keep responding with the same irrelevant points.
mebbe ppl aint pretendin when mispellin? mebbe its theyre real language. srry y'all try it dis way
no ones sayin u needa get a top studio fo 600. but whateva u gost best werk or u mightas well light up that green and ash it out no wut um sayin? akai busts out wack OS dat dont werk, the machine LOOKS like itd be good, but its a playa con tryin to hustle u outa yo cash. 4 reals on da inside is bugged out code dat a dime hooka woodnt even touch. akai useda roll big, but they bailed and new ****** took ova dat cant cut worth shit. now we gots impure goods bein sold at a premium price. **** that shit *****. time we made it clear we aint bein played out like dat. ppl on the streets been fraid to call em out but its time dey new. they needa start answerin to locs round here and takin care of dem needs or were gunna pay em a visite gangsta style. feel me?
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It doesn't matter if it's $6,000 or $60, if the OS is locked up then the hardware is useless without begging and riding on Akai's back. If they can't satisfy a customer's needs, that person has no means of taking it upon themself to do things right. The Akai OS is poor quality, and cannot be trusted because it is known to have critical flaws. The solution was JJOS. So if you got a 1000 or 2500, you're tight. But 500? You're under Akai's table begging for scraps. That's no way to live respectably.
Before you buy a MPC500, you need to know and understand this. The machine itself is good. The OS is good, some times, for some things. That's not the problem. The issue is that Akai OS is not dependable for everyone, even if people lead you to believe it is. With JJOS, word is the critical bugs like load/save problems are fixed. With Akai OS, THE MOST BASIC FUNCTIONS MAY FAIL AND LET YOU DOWN. Do you not realize how fundamental that is? It doesn't matter if it's a $60,000 award-winning piece of gear, if it's likely at all that you may have your work vanish at any time IT IS UNUSABLE.
What if Mozart composed on the MPC, but oops, some bug wiped it out. No one would ever hear. Maybe you bought your MPC to make $5 beats and if something is lost, oh well. Some of us intended on using it as a solid piece of gear, LIMITED OR NOT. If it were solid and dependable then nothing else would matter that much as it'd just be luxury changes. But we're not there yet. It's like you have your nice car that could use a new paint job, but long before that you'd better fix the brakes because at any moment they could and do fail, leaving you flying down the highway with no power over the hunk of steel.
If Akai gave us the source code all of this would solve itself. I'm asking them to let me pop the hood to my own car. But they bolted it shut so only authorized personnel from their company can get in. People take it in to them, and they CAN'T FIX IT. Imagine if your car wasn't serviceable by you. Imagine if people weren't able to change parts, and custom modify it because the hood was welded shut with protection mechanisms. THEN YOU DON'T OWN IT. Just give us access to the engine under the hood of the product WE BOUGHT. JJ has access somehow, but if he didn't imagine how lame the MPCs would be.
Instead of taking attacks on Akai personally you should recognize the truth of the situation, that you have an unserviceable car that is known to break down randomly. Maybe it'll happen at the worst time for you and cause pain. Or maybe yours works perfectly, but if you had access to the engine you could tweak it to be even more to your liking. You don't want that? Akai doesn't listen until it hits their profits. People need to know that the MPC500 and 5000 are dependent on the shotty Akai OS, and the only reason why the 1000/2500 are hits is because of JJOS. Then they'll stop buying them, and Akai listens.
*crickets*
