AKAI SUPPORTER SINCE 1992

Mistamixx wrote:After 25 years I'm giving up. The MPC brand will soon be nothing more than a plugin for PC based producers. These controllers are nothing but temporary pacifiers for me and others. The ability to add audio tracks has existed for years. It could've been implemented before the Ren's release. The white flag is flying. I predict plugin improvements and little to nothing when it comes to the MPC software going in the direction of standalone. I'M OUT!! P.S. Roger Linn the total destruction is near... I hope I'm wrong smh.

Most of the pc based producers will never understand how I feel.

Mistamixx wrote:

JUKE 179r wrote:

Mistamixx wrote:This board has been taken over by pc producers hoping the mpc becomes nothing but a plugin. FACT! Lol.

LOL

Floppy disk? 16MB of RAM?? No USB??? How can I make a track with that???

A lot of hits were made with those specs. How many placements do you have using more RAM and USB?

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JVC wrote:

Mistamixx wrote:After 25 years I'm giving up. The MPC brand will soon be nothing more than a plugin for PC based producers. These controllers are nothing but temporary pacifiers for me and others. The ability to add audio tracks has existed for years. It could've been implemented before the Ren's release. The white flag is flying. I predict plugin improvements and little to nothing when it comes to the MPC software going in the direction of standalone. I'M OUT!! P.S. Roger Linn the total destruction is near... I hope I'm wrong smh.

Most of the pc based producers will never understand how I feel.

But, THE AKAI Professional that you loved is long gone (December 2005 to be exact, the month that Akai filed bankrupt in Japan)

Roger Linn stated that Since Numark took over the brand name, he hasn't received any loyalty checks from them (yet they are capitalizing MPC "legacy"), so I'd assume that Roger Linn couldn't care less.

Current AKAI brand is just an alias Numark uses, like ION, ALESIS, etc.

Fanu wrote:In terms of humour, this thread delivers!

Mistamixx wrote:

Nubian Mindz wrote:Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Based on the type of music you do ableton is a better fit for you

Whether you like his music or not, I'm not sure if you know but you're dissing a veteran producer who's making his living off music unlike many other guys here...and he's made more music than probably anyone else on this forum.

mr_debauch wrote:@fanu that doesn't take away from ableton though... that program is not only a dope daw for production but for live performances too like what this new mpc is aimed at doing.

Fanu wrote:Yeah, there's Youtube clips where Linn clearly curses Jack O Donnell to hell since he (JOD) was just being a total ass and made it hard for him (Linn) to even get in touch with them anymore. IMHO, a very, very bad move from Akai. Can you imagine where they could be now if they had kept Linn...

mr_debauch wrote:how is what he is doing out of touch? many companies are following that path that he has been working on for the last few years... look at companies like roli. those types of interfaces to digital instruments are forward thinking... even akai is trying to add another dimension to their products by putting touch screens on their stuff. And it's expensive because it isn't a mass produced product that will sell millions of units at hobbyist prices. We need guys like him and the eigenharp, the continuum, roli, etc.. to work on those types of ideas.... if they didn't exist we may not have ever had an mpc in the first place.

jpeg wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:how is what he is doing out of touch? many companies are following that path that he has been working on for the last few years... look at companies like roli. those types of interfaces to digital instruments are forward thinking... even akai is trying to add another dimension to their products by putting touch screens on their stuff. And it's expensive because it isn't a mass produced product that will sell millions of units at hobbyist prices. We need guys like him and the eigenharp, the continuum, roli, etc.. to work on those types of ideas.... if they didn't exist we may not have ever had an mpc in the first place.

peeps romantacise linn; full credit for the ground work he laid but that don't mean he still has his finger on the pulse of what today's modern producers needs.

and honestly probably never did; not saying the mpc was a fluke but he was not designing that unit with hip hop in mind.

the dude strikes me as an inventor; engineer and scientist first an foremost; and the music comes after, nothing wrong with that as we need inventive minds.


however lets not pretend that that dude is engaged enuff in today's technology to actually be relevant today.

fore one he seems totally oblivious to the presences of the personal computer in his recent outings; so what makes u think that he would enable the design of a computer integrated stand-alone unit?

I would never question linns inventiveness or the impact of his legacy but in todays world the practicality of his offerings appears to be lacking, now that was ok during the 80's as all music gear was industrial spec and high end but in todays pro-sumer market he aint da one.

jpeg wrote:peeps romantacise linn; full credit for the ground work he laid but that don't mean he still has his finger on the pulse of what today's modern producers needs.

and honestly probably never did; not saying the mpc was a fluke but he was not designing that unit with hip hop in mind.

the dude strikes me as an inventor; engineer and scientist first an foremost; and the music comes after, nothing wrong with that as we need inventive minds.


however lets not pretend that that dude is engaged enuff in today's technology to actually be relevant today.

fore one he seems totally oblivious to the presences of the personal computer in his recent outings; so what makes u think that he would enable the design of a computer integrated stand-alone unit?

I would never question linns inventiveness or the impact of his legacy but in todays world the practicality of his offerings appears to be lacking, now that was ok during the 80's as all music gear was industrial spec and high end but in todays pro-sumer market he aint da one.

mr_debauch wrote:

jpeg wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:how is what he is doing out of touch? many companies are following that path that he has been working on for the last few years... look at companies like roli. those types of interfaces to digital instruments are forward thinking... even akai is trying to add another dimension to their products by putting touch screens on their stuff. And it's expensive because it isn't a mass produced product that will sell millions of units at hobbyist prices. We need guys like him and the eigenharp, the continuum, roli, etc.. to work on those types of ideas.... if they didn't exist we may not have ever had an mpc in the first place.

peeps romantacise linn; full credit for the ground work he laid but that don't mean he still has his finger on the pulse of what today's modern producers needs.

and honestly probably never did; not saying the mpc was a fluke but he was not designing that unit with hip hop in mind.

the dude strikes me as an inventor; engineer and scientist first an foremost; and the music comes after, nothing wrong with that as we need inventive minds.


however lets not pretend that that dude is engaged enuff in today's technology to actually be relevant today.

fore one he seems totally oblivious to the presences of the personal computer in his recent outings; so what makes u think that he would enable the design of a computer integrated stand-alone unit?

I would never question linns inventiveness or the impact of his legacy but in todays world the practicality of his offerings appears to be lacking, now that was ok during the 80's as all music gear was industrial spec and high end but in todays pro-sumer market he aint da one.

and neither is numark... in fact they never were.

Coz wrote:

You're full of pointless contradictions jpeg. Who are you to determine who is relevant or not in the industry? You're as ****' clueless as you were before you disappeared from here and crawled under a rock a few years back.

The last person to proclaim Roger Linn as "irrelevant" was that bellend jah.