konc3pt wrote:Certified Beatz wrote:I cannot see buying the screen without some of the top features that made us all jump from AKAI garbage OS...

Same here.
It just doesn't make sense for me (atleast at this point in OS2XL and given the current state of the new screen's OS) to pay almost $200 for a pretty screen that comes with a limited OS. I've paid for all the versions of the JJ OS, I've submitted a bunch of feature requests, participated in the OS discussions and found a countless amount of bugs over the years to help get OS2XL to where it's at today (it's damn near perfect, I love it); I can't see myself paying to go back to square one and start over again with bug fixes, feature requests, etc., etc...
The whole reason why I copped an MPC in the first place was to make music, not to hunt for bugs and request features. It was cool (and kinda fun) the first time around because it was either that or use Akai's OS which was very limited. From the start even the free JJ OS was better than Akai's OS so it was all good to be feature requesting and looking for bugs but now we're talking about making music with OS2XL or going back to a limited OS that will "EVENTUALLY" catch up to OS2XL and "MAYBE" one day be better than OS2XL.
I need most of the features that are in OS2XL so that I can work the way I like to work when I create music, I can't just go back to a limited OS just for the hell of it and throw off my workflow; workflow is the number one most important thing for me when considering what hardware or OS to work with. The idea of "you can still use OS2XL on the new screen, you'll just be using half the screen, so it's ok to still upgrade" is wack imo. In that case I'll just save my money and check in from time to time on the developement of the new OS until it's up to par (or pretty close) with OS2XL and maybe then I'll pay and upgrade, but I need to keep making music. Paying and waiting months (maybe even more) to get features back that you already paid for and have in OS2XL sounds crazy to me.
I guess my first request for the new bigscreen OS would be to release it in a near complete state, until then keep working on it. You already know what features we want, OS2XL pretty much sums them up, there's no need to request them one by one all over again. The bigger screen is a great idea, don't get me wrong, but releasing the OS this incomplete with no kind of ETA as to when all the features will return (that's IF they all return) is kinda shaky even if the new OS and screen were free.
IMHO, and I'm not trying to sound like a dick, I love what JJ's done for us and our MPC's so don't get it twisted BUT the bottom line for me is this, if we are making music we need an OS that is as complete as possible, if we enjoy hunting for bugs and requesting features that were already implemented in past OS' then starting from scratch will be fun, it just depends on what we are trying to do. It's distracting having to do both but thankfully since JJ created OS2XL (and previous versions) we don't need to.