shimmyshimmy wrote:Madhornet wrote:"Well im only here because I already own their **** touch & am going to upgrade,but wont buy anything else from them ever again."
Why would you upgrade, if you hate the product you own and you hate company itself? Sorry, but it makes no sense to me.
I'm not Akai fanboy even though I owned MPC for many years now, but it feels like some people expect who knows what and then their expectations are not met, they go on internet screaming. Doing research before spending money is the thing to do.
Or maybe you got a lot of dough to spend on products you don't like, if so you are gonna be completely fine.
He did not say that he would upgrade to another Akai product.. The touch is a great product but there's a few loose ends here and there. And instead of Akai updating the software with these minor functionalities they decide to lower the price like it's nothing. To me as a touch owner it feels like my touch is going to be obsolete, outdated all together with a support drop.
Remember when they released the touch, it's slogan was THE RETURN OF THE KING.
In my opinion when you are talking about a king it means that the KING RULES OVER ALL. They might not have said it but when your talking 'KING' it means your talking about a flagship. Well it does a great job but it doesn't rule in my studio. I want to use 'side chaining' and 'Izotope stutter' now I need a daw to fix that for me. and these coming soon sections, come on man how soon?
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Akai (I bet I'll be one of the first to buy the MPCX) but it's not normal for a company to treat their loyal customer/fans with silence.. In fact this the first time I experienced such behavior.
Look at game creators. Let's take Final Fantasy 15 as an example. It took them 10 years to complete this game. During the production of this game they had a lot of problems including the fact that they started developing on the PS3 but finished the game on PS4. They had a lot of setbacks but they did communicate because they knew that the Final Fantasy Franchise has got millions of fans, millions and millions of potential new generation fans.