I think we're getting a surprise!

m:t:c wrote:Yeah, NAMM isn't over yet.

I don't even own 5k and I'm still really curious to see how this will play out. My faith in future Akai MPC OS upgrades is lost for good if this doesn't happen.

@high198: JJOS for 1k doesn't meet your feature requirements?

To be honest... The 1k has been in its box for over 3 years now. I purchased it in March 08 then got a 5k 4 months later and never touched the 1k again....lol. The 1k and JJOS is cool, but The 5k sounds a lot better to me plus the synth is underrated.

I agree with you waiting to see how this plays out. If they upgrade the 5k, it will give me a little more confidence in Akai continuing support of their products. Then I would most likely replace my Maschine with a MPC studio. If not, as much as I luv my 5k. The convenience of Maschine overrides the better sounding 5k.

While I was typing this. Akai Pro tweeted that all stand alone MPCs will receive updates. No date or time frame was given..... trying to find out more.

An update would be nice and I would surely welcome it but if it dont happen I aint gonna burn my 5k at the stake. It works just fine for me. I'm good.

high198 wrote:

m:t:c wrote:Yeah, NAMM isn't over yet.

I don't even own 5k and I'm still really curious to see how this will play out. My faith in future Akai MPC OS upgrades is lost for good if this doesn't happen.

@high198: JJOS for 1k doesn't meet your feature requirements?

To be honest... The 1k has been in its box for over 3 years now. I purchased it in March 08 then got a 5k 4 months later and never touched the 1k again....lol. The 1k and JJOS is cool, but The 5k sounds a lot better to me plus the synth is underrated.

I agree with you waiting to see how this plays out. If they upgrade the 5k, it will give me a little more confidence in Akai continuing support of their products. Then I would most likely replace my Maschine with a MPC studio. If not, as much as I luv my 5k. The convenience of Maschine overrides the better sounding 5k.

While I was typing this. Akai Pro tweeted that all stand alone MPCs will receive updates. No date or time frame was given..... trying to find out more.

All stand alone MPCs?

'Will see updates all our standalone models will still be big hits for us!'

a twitter message from Akai Pro

seems like Akai has DISAPPOINTED all of us who have been forever waiting. No update, NAMM is here and what happened. if someone knows something i dont know let me know.

Thanks.

As this update is 'across the range' I suspect the it's related to integrating the hardware MPC's with the new software, rather than anything more radical. Being a 5000 user I'm hoping to be proved wrong however.

Saint Joe just asked Andy Mac from Akai directly - 'is there an update coming for the 5000' - the reply: 'Not what I know of'.

@11:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUBNougU ... er&list=UL

That seems fairly definitive, considering Andy is one of the main product specialists in Akai.

^ yeah, bummer but why do they release conflicting messages (vs. twitter replies)?!

MPC-Tutor wrote:Saint Joe just asked Andy Mac from Akai directly - 'is there an update coming for the 5000' - the reply: 'Not what I know of'.

@11:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUBNougU ... er&list=UL

fvck akai. long live jj!

m:t:c wrote:^ yeah, bummer but why do they release conflicting messages (vs. twitter replies)?!

Seems to me that someone should send Twitter guy a link to that vid as well...

sold out again.

All Nukai has to do is give JJ the open source code. Thats it! People will praise Akai for doing so and JJ will have another 10 years in the business so everyone is happy!!!

I tweeted at Akai pro and they said to stand by because in the near future our 5Ks will work with the new software. I am not that excited, not a software guy. Thats why I bought an MPC to begin with.

Ill-Green wrote:All Nukai has to do is give JJ the open source code. Thats it! People will praise Akai for doing so and JJ will have another 10 years in the business so everyone is happy!!!

IDK Ill-Green. I dont think we should have to pay for any updates no matter who gets the check... JJ or otherwise. I do think that Akai and JJ should at very least work together on subsequent Akai sanctioned releases of the OS. That would be win win for everyone. Akai pleases customers, customers get powerful os updates, JJ gets paid from Akai.