[OFFICIAL] - MPC X & MPC Live Photos, Specs & Pricing

Fanu wrote:How do you know hip hop producers are busy? ^
They often forget to take the stickers off their hats.

Well... Keeping the stickers on your hat is something completely different culturally.

starmanwarz wrote:Fingers crossed we will have news either by Akai or some other company at Musikmesse. Hoping for NI/Ableton/Roland.

Just went through the list of confirmed exhibitors for Musikmesse. NI, Ableton and Roland are not yet listed. Akai/InMusic and Korg are confirmed.
Might go there if there will be more companies of interest for me.

Fanu wrote:How do you know hip hop producers are busy? ^
They often forget to take the stickers off their hats.

It actually is supposed to remain there. All my Mets caps have the authentic label still own them.

Wormhelmet wrote:I think some people are reading way too much into ADSR's gear chat video. They do a series calied gear chat. They also reviewed the Korg M1. Does that mean by their smiles in that video that they secretly have knowledge of Korg releasing an up to date new M1 synth? Probably not.

They have done the D-50, Ensoniq sq-80, Yamaha dx-7

They review old gear. No secret meaning to the mv8800 video.

To get back on the DX7.

I didn't know this existed, it appeared on my (Apple-TV) Youtube just yet. I don't know if it is an improvement necessarily, but it certainly is small.

Chillin wrote:

Fanu wrote:How do you know hip hop producers are busy? ^
They often forget to take the stickers off their hats.

It actually is supposed to remain there. All my Metz caps have the authentic label still own them.

"Supposed to"…says who?
OK to keep price tags on shoes and jeans, too?
No offense but imho that's one of the stupidest trends out there.

If I ever end up buying the Live/X, the price tag will stay on…

Fanu wrote:

Supposed to"…says who?
OK to keep price tags on shoes and jeans, too?
No offense but imho that's one of the stupidest trends out there.

If I ever end up buying the Live/X, the price tag will stay on…

It is not a price tag. The label says authentic, It's an authenticity label.

LOL Did you say sh*tshow? Ctfu lol

Pete is a funny dude. I asked him a specific question dude ran around it as though l wouldn't get what he was doing. Someone else picked up on it too lol lm not asking him anymore questions.

I have my deadline with Akai. If they don't come through l will humbly bow out and do what l gotta do.
Im not going to let them trap me off like Avid did. Avid tried to make peeps think you need protools. Oh no you don't! Perfect timing by Presonus to rip a whole in Avid's back side. They took the opportunity, now they have also an HD system like PT for way less. Im building my project studio around it. It has Melodyn which you have to buy that separate for PT. Even Reason 9 has its version of Melodyn. Presonus got some ish! I haven't opened the manual once for it. Its to intuitive lol. My partner is so in love with it he hasn't been in Reason lol

That is going to happen to Akai watch. It didnt happen with Maschine that went left they didnt do a dedicated standalone. But if NI do... Hmmmm Or some company, and they do it right. Hmmmmm

willisill wrote:I'm not sure how anyone is keeping their preorder in at this point. How did they go from "on the boats as we speak" to pushed back again? I know the shop dates are speculation, but GC has the Live at the end of April now and i'll bet that changes to early May by next week if there isn't some major positive news. It'd be nice if an anonymous beta tester would just come out and say wtf the holdup actually is. Is is the software? Is it the hardware? Is it both? I've seen enough of Pete's smug bs. Guy has really rubbed me the wrong way with the way he answers questions like we're all idiots and he's the master of code. I know dudes working as software engineers in NYC likely making double or triple what he makes from inMusic that probably would've been able to do what's taken Akai a year and a half in about 3 months. I actually talked to one of them about this debacle and they said the same... "sounds like they just have a bad team; ie, not enough people or not enough competent people." There is not a single groundbreaking feature on these machines that should lead to such a sh*tshow. Akai had job openings for engineers specializing in "embedded software" for a reason... just so happens getting quality engineers doesn't come cheap. None of the guys with talent and postgrad degrees from top tier schools is working for less than 6 figures.

Chillin wrote:

Wormhelmet wrote:I think some people are reading way too much into ADSR's gear chat video. They do a series calied gear chat. They also reviewed the Korg M1. Does that mean by their smiles in that video that they secretly have knowledge of Korg releasing an up to date new M1 synth? Probably not.

They have done the D-50, Ensoniq sq-80, Yamaha dx-7

They review old gear. No secret meaning to the mv8800 video.

To get back on the DX7.

I didn't know this existed, it appeared on my (Apple-TV) Youtube just yet. I don't know if it is an improvement necessarily, but it certainly is small.

The reface series has been out over a year. But if you are implying that because gear chat did a talk on the dx and its out in new form, and M1 out in software, then the mv must be coming back because they talked about that too, then you got a further reach than stretch armstrong.

Looks like I'm not the only one that think Pete is an annoying jackass. He doesn't even know whats today's date I betcha.

Dude saying at the community forum that some more critical comments towards Akai had been deleted from the Live/X date thread.
Doesn't surprise me one bit…that's total Akai for you. Just like disabling comments on videos.

As much as I would like to see some competition for the X/Live, I won't get my hopes up. Not after Korg put out the Electribe sampler, which can't do even the most simple things like truncating samples...

Fanu wrote: Just like disabling comments on videos.

This gets on my nerves so much.. Akai is the only music company who does this.

Waiting for Elektron to drop the Digitakt is more promising than waiting for Akai to "say something".

I think I will be happy with a Digitakt than knowing I have an MPC Live that came from anger, deceit, frustration and idiocy.

Elmar Jestro wrote:As much as I would like to see some competition for the X/Live, I won't get my hopes up. Not after Korg put out the Electribe sampler, which can't do even the most simple things like truncating samples...

Yeah, I thought that too but it actually does truncate. Its just that its an automatic truncate

Just trim your sample's start and end point, then save it. Now its truncated for no good reason. What if you could use those pieces. The ES2 is the most backward bullshit I ever bought.

starmanwarz wrote:

Fanu wrote: Just like disabling comments on videos.

This gets on my nerves so much.. Akai is the only music company who does this.

Sign number one of total insecurity. If the company was feeling good about what they were doing, there'd be no need for it…they could allow comments, easily. They know they'd get so many questions and they just want to avoid them. But blocking the means of communication is just cowardly.

Haha, I dunno…Adding everything up, I'm feeling quite shitty about Akai atm, tbh. So many question marks and questionable marketing/tactics. And, even they day it comes out…it will come out without PDC on the software

Might just blow the money on MPC4K + s950…they were done by a decent company.