whats up with the next o.s. already akai?

truthfully, i dont even care about an upgrade anymore.
i just recieved my NeKo LX5, yesterday, and as
soon as i start getting adjusted to it, i might just
get rid of my MPC5000

mjames4208 wrote:SUMMER NAMM 09, is less than 2 weeks away. Lets see what they are planning, and then BLOW UP THE TELEPHONE LINES ....... lol

Jesus, that's already history...! So what came out SUMMER NAMM 09 concerning the 5000?

The MPC5000 has to much hardware potential to give up on for akai. I imagine its one of the last MPC's - there is not much more it can have beside more stability - (mine works fine) and not have it turn into a computer (with some lame proprietary DAW (roland MV ) which so many of us wanted to get away from in the first place. If they don't develop this more no one will buy future products and if they keep developing the mpc5000 they can get a lot of life out of the hardware configuration. I mean they even went on tour with the 5000 to show how fun it was to get people away from the computer but this will be the end if they dont update every 6 months or it stalls. The thing i would like the most is a better synth or fx gui ...so if they tweak that a bit i'd be set the hardware already there sooooooo.........

the smartest thing they can do is tell someone like "JJ" that he can't make their product better.

or some other nerd out there who knows how to program, (no offense jj), but akai hates this because those people might try to charge for their version of the o.s.

so, you are either for the name "AKAI" and all money made off it.

"or"

you are for the MPC 5000 itself. i like companies that believe in their products more than the consumers who buy them, apparently nukai is no one of them. how embarrassing it must be to work for this new company who abandons products before the consumers who payed money for them abandons them. especially when they go out of their way to make sure no nerd comes along and makes their product better.

the whole situation is mind blowing to me.

what would happen if they just kind of made the O.S. open.

they could leave the original 2.0 on their web site, and simply release the code to the public, and have a beta site where people could put their own versions of the code up, even for sale, and in such an open market, the best would become the most popular, making the most money, and getting updated the most. this could be sustainable for the next 6-8 years or more.

but if nukai heard me say this out loud, they would run and find me and bash my head in with a baseball bat, and i've been loyal to akai for a very long time now and am still a fan. i'm just speaking the truth.

A good solution (in case of akai's R&D crew is done with the 5000) would be to sell the OS source code to JJ as a 2.5th party developer, because he has well proven his experience on the mpc.