I guess I have a feeling

OK, a real topic.

When it comes to the pre-release information, specifications, details, information of the studio, the Ren, the touch, the X, the Live, or any product from Akai. Especially up until the very month before their product is being released...

ALL I HEAR from people is

"Well I just GUESS Akai is...."

"I just have a FEELING Akai is..."

"It will PROBABLY work like this..."

"We will just have to wait"

"In the video, I can kind of see an icon for this, or a feature... hmmm Maybe it's...."

"I thought I heard Saint Joe say he thinks...."

"I thought I heard Hellfire say it might..."

"I thought I heard mpc-tutor say it will most likely..."

"I think AKAI knows by now to get their sh*t together, they had so much time" this one gets me


I mean like come on!?!? WHERE IS AKAI? The employees. One face for the company thats not busy programming that will let us know the details. We don't even fully understand how these products will work and function and the thing is almost in stores already!!!!! Everything is guessing and wondering. No communication with their user base, no detailed information. I dont care how small your team is, if you are truly professional and care about the product you are working on and the people who will find joy using these products, dont you think you'd be dying to tell everyone what is coming so we can stop looking at buying your products as a big gamble. With Akai it's always like rolling the dice, lets just hope. Cross our fingers. blah blah. Of course give them 3 years and they will put out updates to fix any product but dont begin to release buggy broken products to the market and leaving us in the dark on what these things can do in and out, not letting us know what the real deal is. I love mpcs but Akai you have to stop these terrible business methods. It's like make a few videos that show nothing except how cool the thing looks, cover a basic and incomplete list of specs and features, and release some cools pics of the new products all lit up with color. Am I in the twilight zone?

InspectahEX wrote: Am I in the twilight zone?

Nope



Why can't a company that put so much into R&D into their give a HARD RELEASE date. We all understand that X is coming at a later date but shouldn't LIVE have a solid date. NI gives solid dates for all their products, why can't Akai?


AND why are we still wondering if the X has a battery after all this time, we shouldn't have to harass pete for every little thing.

The current Akai will always be lame when it comes to keeping their customers up to date with info or spelling out a solid roadmap for the MPC. Even a diehard cynic like me can see they're on an upward trajectory with the Live and X though.

The X in particular is probably the first MPC in nearly 20 years that I may buy new.

we are still arguing about how much sample time the thing really has....

kaydigi wrote:

InspectahEX wrote: Am I in the twilight zone?

Nope



Why can't a company that put so much into R&D into their give a HARD RELEASE date. We all understand that X is coming at a later date but shouldn't LIVE have a solid date. NI gives solid dates for all their products, why can't Akai?


AND why are we still wondering if the X has a battery after all this time, we shouldn't have to harass pete for every little thing.

The X does not have a battery.

kaydigi wrote:

InspectahEX wrote: Am I in the twilight zone?

Nope



Why can't a company that put so much into R&D into their give a HARD RELEASE date. We all understand that X is coming at a later date but shouldn't LIVE have a solid date. NI gives solid dates for all their products, why can't Akai?


AND why are we still wondering if the X has a battery after all this time, we shouldn't have to harass pete for every little thing.

There is no wondering. Only the live has a battery.

Wal Martian wrote:

InspectahEX wrote: WHERE IS AKAI?

http://twitter.com/Akai_Pro

akais tweets dont help anything, is twitter their main base of operations? Cant even type more than a couple lines of text in a tweet

InspectahEX wrote:

Wal Martian wrote:

InspectahEX wrote: WHERE IS AKAI?

http://twitter.com/Akai_Pro

akais tweets dont help anything, is twitter their main base of operations? Cant even type more than a couple lines of text in a tweet

I'm pretty sure that is how Twitter was designed to work. Only 140 characters or whatever the limit it.

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Akai listened but its still
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This thread got feelings

Lampdog wrote:

Coz wrote: Even a diehard cynic like me can see they're on an upward trajectory with the Live and X though.

The X in particular is probably the first MPC in nearly 20 years that I may buy new.

x2

Well, not really 20 years for me but you get what I'm saying.