Will Akai MPC ever go Vsti?

(roland and cakewalk only have a partnership by the way, the one doesn't "own" the other, like yamaha owns steinberg).

This is highly incorrect. Roland owns the majority share in Cakewalk and has begun rebranding their Edirol interfaces with the Cakewalk brand. They've even changed the logo to show who is now behind all things Cakewalk.



The only clear signal I get is that Akai is focusing on what will definitely make them money in the mass market. That means going deeper into MIDI controllers ( as previously posted) and OEM and shedding the MPC brand. They did what they wanted to do in saturating the market with lower priced units than the 4000 and it's predecessors. Unfortunately Numark is in direct competition with it's own used product. Numarks current focus indicates that the 5000 mismarketing is something they would rather put behind them as a really good idea handled badly. I see some seriously advanced controllers down pike but probably not much in terms of samplers.

The upside is that if Numark were to lay the MPC to rest they probably won't be so protective of the OS sourcecode with no profit motive. You could see JJ competitors and an OS far beyond OS 2.0 Possibly even a mass collaboration effort amongst programmers.

wow, roland owns market share of cakewalk, ... that is very interesting.

m-audio and digidesign, ... with their new monitors, i wonder if digidesign owns market share of m-audio or will soon.

yamaha owns cubase.

apple owns logic, and has exclusive rights to apogee interfaces, .... hmmm.

then their is this interesting love affair between Numark, Alesis, and Akai. How does Alesis fit into this picture?

and they only have a partnership with Ableton Live. .... will Numark ever hold a market share of Ableton?

and if there is going to be further OS updates to the 5000, ... that makes my teeth drip with sweat and hunger.

this is so interesting.

NI Maschine just came out with another update, that's cool,and apparently they have another one in the works as well..

Akai all I want for Christmas is to be able to save my output/adat/mixer settings globally for any project/pgm I load without them being overwritten when loading a new . pgm.. I can live without every other new feature,but to bounce down tracks with ease 2 my daw is needed badly here,and that feature would help the workflow.. Please consider it