So Akai Souped up some MDPs and....

Yayyyyy 0 for everybody!



For real...we're still talkin' about this stuff?

Lampdog wrote:+1 what psr said.
-1 what monsta said.

lol

JAH wrote:Approx every 3-4 years since 1987, Akai has released a new MPC. Since the last MPC came out in 2008, Akai is pretty much on schedule give or take a few months.

In order to play catch up, you have to be behind. NI's Maschine has been on the market for 3 years now and it still can't accomplish basic tasks that a 10 year old MPC can accomplish. From what I have seen from the MPC Ren (even in beta), NI better come correct with either an OS update or revamp the Maschine hardware. Otherwise, Maschine will fade like Kore/Kore 2...or the Roland MV series. Yes, remember the MV series. Everyone thought Akai's days were numbered. Only after being on the market for approx 5 years, 2 models later...Roland folded.

but here the thing ive said peeps dissing ren and maschine because it does not facilitate arcane featuresets.

again the example is cats dissin machine cos it does not have a floppy drive? certain features that a 10 year old mpc has are redundant hence why companies aint **** with that shit now.

jpeg wrote:
but here the thing ive said peeps dissing ren and maschine because it does not facilitate arcane featuresets.

again the example is cats dissin machine cos it does not have a floppy drive? certain features that a 10 year old mpc has are redundant hence why companies aint **** with that **** now.

The 10 year old plus features I am talking about are contained in nearly every sampling workstation (new or old)...with the exception of Maschine. But this has beeen discussed many times over...in numerous feature requests in these forum and the NI forum. And NI has even acknowledge that many of these features are on their development plan.

The MPC Ren is projected to address some of these issues day 1.

jpeg wrote:

JAH wrote:Approx every 3-4 years since 1987, Akai has released a new MPC. Since the last MPC came out in 2008, Akai is pretty much on schedule give or take a few months.

In order to play catch up, you have to be behind. NI's Maschine has been on the market for 3 years now and it still can't accomplish basic tasks that a 10 year old MPC can accomplish. From what I have seen from the MPC Ren (even in beta), NI better come correct with either an OS update or revamp the Maschine hardware. Otherwise, Maschine will fade like Kore/Kore 2...or the Roland MV series. Yes, remember the MV series. Everyone thought Akai's days were numbered. Only after being on the market for approx 5 years, 2 models later...Roland folded.

but here the thing ive said peeps dissing ren and maschine because it does not facilitate arcane featuresets.

again the example is cats dissin machine cos it does not have a floppy drive? certain features that a 10 year old mpc has are redundant hence why companies aint **** with that **** now.

i dont think they miss the floppy drive .. i think they miss the stand alone .

DETOX coming out b 4 mpc ren

Lampdog wrote:+1 what psr said.
-1 what monsta said.

uhhh, yeah, what he ^^^^ said

I like the thread title, reminds me of a Charlie Mingus song, "The New Akai MPCs are Some Jive Ass Controllers"

Roger Linn, o Roger Linn, where art thou with that **** Linn Drumm II?!!

i went from an mpc2500 to 1000, I'm def going back to a 2500 this summer

Ill-Green wrote:I like the thread title, reminds me of a Charlie Mingus song, "The New Akai MPCs are Some Jive Ass Controllers"

Roger Linn, o Roger Linn, where art thou with that **** Linn Drumm II?!!

Don't hold your breath...waiting for that Linn Drumm II to arrive.

JAH wrote:

Ill-Green wrote:I like the thread title, reminds me of a Charlie Mingus song, "The New Akai MPCs are Some Jive Ass Controllers"

Roger Linn, o Roger Linn, where art thou with that **** Linn Drumm II?!!

Don't hold your breath...waiting for that Linn Drumm II to arrive.

I know, he's taking it easy and at his own pace. At his age, that will be in about 3 years from now.

ya/'' checked out the temptest (roger linn, dave smith goodie)

as far as sampling goes, it sucks atm, haha. hoping they incorporate sampling but for now. the synthesis and drumming / programming looks super cool.'

MONSTA wrote:DETOX coming out b 4 mpc ren

You act like they've been talking about the Ren for years.

Clearly you don't understand the 'Detox is coming out before ____' joke

peeping tom wrote:as far as sampling goes, it sucks atm

Funny that, seeing as it's not a sampler!