NEWS Flash!! New MPC concept shown at Build 2014

I saw a openlabs timbaland edition for a 2k€ in a pawn shop the other day, was asking myself if it was so good to buy it for that price....

Open Labs and mpc talk .. was 9 years ago or more ... just finish the 1.7 .. one thing @ a time plz ... don't lose your focus , on this prototype distraction !!!!!! mind game

where is the rest of the video...

Elohimfetus wrote:where is the rest of the video...

The whole keynote is here, the embedded Windows part of the discussion, where the MPC is mentioned, is at 2:02:20, have not watched the whole thing, so no idea if there is more of the MPC shown...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/KEY02

i really hope this is not just another midi controller...

MONSTA_UNO wrote:Open Labs and mpc talk .. was 9 years ago or more ... just finish the 1.7 .. one thing @ a time plz ... don't lose your focus , on this prototype distraction !!!!!! mind game

THANK YOU

that saves Me some typing...

DejaMPC wrote:i really hope this is not just another midi controller...

have you read the whole thread? apparently not.

"MSPete" was quoted as saying...

The prototype was running an Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC) with a core i5. It did not require any external PC. TBD what the final device runs, nut I'd expect something similar.

MPCHolland053 wrote:

MONSTA_UNO wrote:Open Labs and mpc talk .. was 9 years ago or more ... just finish the 1.7 .. one thing @ a time plz ... don't lose your focus , on this prototype distraction !!!!!! mind game

THANK YOU

that saves Me some typing...

Np

Hi all

I am the other Pete mentioned here (full name: Pete Brown). I'm new to these forums, but you'll can often find me at Gearslutz or Muffwiggler as I do a lot with hardware, especially modular synths.

At Microsoft, I work with .NET developers, the creative music industry, and with the Internet of Things and related gadgets. My job is to help make the platforms better based on what our developers need.

I've been working to bring creative music apps to Windows, including working with companies like Image-Line and others. I'm also working with musicians and DJs . You'll see some of that info (as well as recordings: disclaimer- I am *not* a musician) on my YT channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Psychlist1972/videos

Sorry about any name confusion with Akai Pete, but neither of us are ready to change our names

I don't speak for Akai/InMusic, but would like to offer a couple links explaining Microsoft tech mentioned here or otherwise related.

Intel Quark

We showed a demo of Windows on Quark in the keynote day 1. The example is a giant piano a la Big. In the keynote we mentioned how important the Internet of Things has always been to Microsoft (which is where Quark/Galileo comes in) and also introduced the new Windows Phone 8.1.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/KEY01

You can do a lot with Quark, but it's older x86 technology, with an instruction set roughly on par with something between a 486 and early Pentiums, but without some of the advanced media instructions. It's geared more for low cost IoT type technology, but I'm sure we'll see some pretty cool things made from it.

Embedded and Build

The Akai and Numark devices were announced in the context of Windows Embedded. Not everything said there necessarily applies to these devices. For example, what Akai uses to code/design/etc. and ultimately run on the OS is entirely up to them.

Windows Embedded Industry 8.1 runs everything Windows runs, but is set up, optimized, and trimmed by the manufacturer (Akai and Numark in this case) in order to be as efficient and stable as possible for the intended tasks. Windows really shines when you can use existing software, but in a device that has been fully optimized with known drivers and parameters, and with unnecessary services shut off.

Something like 90% of ATMs and kiosks around the world run these embedded operating systems. Most industrial controllers and much of the equipment used in hospitals also runs Windows. You'll even find it in high end devices like oscilloscopes.

I included the Akai device in the keynote after one of our field folks pointed out to me that Akai already had a great device that is running Windows Embedded. I am really excited that InMusic agreed to let us preview this device at Build -- the concept and implementation are entirely Akai's. When I had it back stage, both of the performers from the two pre-keynote performances were drooling over it. They found it to be extremely exciting.

Because it's Windows, Akai and others can fully leverage the code they're already writing and it *just works* on the embedded device. It saves a ton of work in that way.

Full day 2 keynote recording:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/KEY02

Session describing all of our embedded products:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-511


New MIDI API

3. We've just announced a new preview MIDI API for Windows. Jason and I presented it (as well as low-latency audio tips for developers) in this session. We're encouraging developers to build with it, and then provide us feedback we can use when we incorporate it into the next version of Windows. Here's the session recording:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-548

Intent is to provide a more modern API that we can innovate on, as well as deal with problems reported in the older APIs.

Windows and Creative Media apps

4. We're working to make the next version of Windows MUCH better for creative apps. We have an entire team in the OSG (Operating Systems Group) that is dedicated to creative media. As part of that planning effort, we've had discussions and feedback sessions with most of the big hardware and software developers, plus a number of the smaller developers.


Here's my flickr set with some photos from Build. I didn't get to take a bunch, because I was back stage until Thursday afternoon, and then presenting Thursday and Friday.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/psychlist ... 716605243/

Pete

That's cool, interesting and informative,[img]psychlist1972/13745811534/in/set-72157643716605243[/img]
[/img]
the one with the mpc redaisance is that a laptop in front of it? And is it in any way connected??

thanks for your elaborations

good stuff

MPCHolland053 wrote:That's cool, interesting and informative,[img]psychlist1972/13745811534/in/set-72157643716605243[/img]
[/img]
the one with the mpc redaisance is that a laptop in front of it? And is it in any way connected??

thanks for your elaborations

The Dell tablet (which is quite nice, btw) in front of the MPC is also running Windows Embedded Industry 8.1, but is unrelated to the MPC. It's actually the tablet for the Micros portable point of sale app.

The only MPC connections used on stage are audio and power.

Pete

Thanks very much Pete.

Using embedded Windows sounds like a good way to go, to allow the integration of MPC Software into a standalone device, without too much additional work, and allowing the continuation of development of the application for the existing controller/computer model at the same time, without killing it.

The use of a standard Intel NUC, if they go that way, might allow for future upgrades to the internal PC hardware, with just a NUC mainboard swap, as in often done with desktop PCs, and similarly will allow it to happen without Akai having to develop and integrate their own processor hardware from scratch.

Will be interesting if Akai take these ideas into production.

MONSTA_UNO wrote:Open Labs and mpc talk .. was 9 years ago or more ... just finish the 1.7 .. one thing @ a time plz ... don't lose your focus , on this prototype distraction !!!!!! mind game

1.7 just finished? Specify.

And no, I won't lose focus on the prototype. I expect my Ren to be elaborate and stable for at least the upcoming 5 years and more. If it's stable, I might think on buying the upcoming MPC, as an additional standalone. Otherwise it's bye bye. Because I am not going to replace a device with bugs for another device with bugs. Like it happened with the 5000 to the Ren.

Chillin wrote:

MONSTA_UNO wrote:Open Labs and mpc talk .. was 9 years ago or more ... just finish the 1.7 .. one thing @ a time plz ... don't lose your focus , on this prototype distraction !!!!!! mind game

1.7 just finished?

Specify.

He is asking Akai to focus on finishing 1.7, without getting distracted by this standalone prototype.

He is not saying that 1.7 is finished.