Feature Suggestions: MPC Renaissance

Remove the VST portion from the program menu, and just add a VST rack where plugins can be added and removed, and midi (internal) can be routed too. This will eliminate the VST duplicating issue.

Enable the piano roll and browser menu able to disconnect from the pad and program edit browser, a la reason is able to separate its sequencer window from the rack.

ASR-10 vintage mode

S-950 vintage mode

8-bit vintage mode

charlieocali wrote:Remove the VST portion from the program menu, and just add a VST rack where plugins can be added and removed, and midi (internal) can be routed too. This will eliminate the VST duplicating issue.

This sounds like a good idea to me and could be a clean look.
Also, I need MTC/Midi Clock INPUT!!! for Sync with DAWs like Pro Tools! This is pretty major, unless Im missing something? (All MPCs have this... why not this one?)

Also, just my little dream would be that the vintage modes actually changed the workflow and screen commands as well to emulate the old softwares and paramaters... can anyone say AHD Envelope ala 2000?

One more thing :

We know you cant use the MPCR without a computer connected, but it would be nice to be able to turn the MPCR on and the computer on, but not have to go "on" the computer at all. Have a "Start MPC Software" button on the actual hardware, of course, it would be one of the existing buttons, but a way to start the software without having to have to jump to the computer. It creates the illusion that you are working solely on the MPC.

1) Should be able to chop 1/64 Time Division when chopping via BPM
This is how I chop all my beats to give me complete control over them.

2) When you have auto-play selected for browsing your samples it should play it for the full-length or for at least 15-20 seconds instead of the 6 seconds it plays them.
OR

When you press the "Play" button, it should play for the length instead of having to hold it to preview your sample.

charlieocali wrote:Remove the VST portion from the program menu, and just add a VST rack where plugins can be added and removed, and midi (internal) can be routed too. This will eliminate the VST duplicating issue.

I think you can have both (like how you can run rtas instruments on aux channel or instrument channel in Pro tools) but it should have a dialog box that asks if you want to duplicate instruments.

PLEASE AKAI implement this plug-in crash protection feature like bitwig studio.

Feature is at 1:02 if you don't want to watch the whole thing.

I would like an audio looper that syncs to the seq inside the mpc sampling section.

That would be cool.
Basic Controls: length in bars, rec, stop.
Looper goes into overdub automatically once it reaches length in bars.
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bigmydus wrote:PLEASE AKAI implement this plug-in crash protection feature like bitwig studio.

Feature is at 1:02 if you don't want to watch the whole thing.

That's quality.

charlieocali wrote:Remove the VST portion from the program menu, and just add a VST rack where plugins can be added and removed, and midi (internal) can be routed too. This will eliminate the VST duplicating issue.

To do this you would need to have some way of routing the audio otherwise you'd end up with a MIDI track and an audio track separate from each other.

I think you'd need a completely new kind of program/track that combines MIDI and Audio but still references the VST in the rack rather than having it loaded on the track

Airyck wrote:

charlieocali wrote:Remove the VST portion from the program menu, and just add a VST rack where plugins can be added and removed, and midi (internal) can be routed too. This will eliminate the VST duplicating issue.

To do this you would need to have some way of routing the audio otherwise you'd end up with a MIDI track and an audio track separate from each other.

I think you'd need a completely new kind of program/track that combines MIDI and Audio but still references the VST in the rack rather than having it loaded on the track

The way I suggested is how C*base does it.

usage without MPC hardware (for travelling)

pgm level fx

sampling from internal computer audio

apricotandpearjam wrote:usage without MPC hardware (for travelling)

pgm level fx

sampling from internal computer audio

Sampling the internal computer audio is easy to do with soundflower and it's free (don't know if it's available for Windows). You can choose different audio devices for the input and output at the same time in the preferences.

ah ok so just select input to soundflower out?