Traktortoys wrote:Just recieved my MPC-X. But cannot find a Tempo-Track like I use it on my MPC-4000. is this even possible? Furthermore there is no possibility to get into a Step-Editor to take a look at each single Note-Event. Eventually this MPC-X is going to be a worthy successor of the MPC-4000, but at the moment it's far away.
The X has a fine step editor.. it is called grid view..
But cannot find a Tempo-Track
MPC-Tutor wrote:For example you currently cannot edit any automation or modulation events (e.g. qlink tuning, filter sweeps, 16 levels data and so on), no editing or any type of MIDI event other than velocity and 'note' events - that is incredibly limiting for many people. You cannot even copy and paste notes in the grid editor.
MPC-Tutor wrote:There's no step edit (list editor) in the standalone, yet.The X has a fine step editor.. it is called grid view..
Grid edit is no step editor, and it's not really that fine either. For example you currently cannot edit any automation or modulation events (e.g. qlink tuning, filter sweeps, 16 levels data and so on), no editing or any type of MIDI event other than velocity and 'note' events - that is incredibly limiting for many people. You cannot even copy and paste notes in the grid editor. Akai has some way to go to get these aspects of the standalone OS in check.But cannot find a Tempo-Track
The MPC Software does not support tempo change events in any shape or form (unlike all previous MPCs).
There is no way to change the tempo of a song except for using multiple sequences each with a different tempo, which doesn't really work if you want to perform a gradual increase/decrease. Nor will that work if you 'convert song to seq' as that will produce a single sequence with single BPM. Unfortunately 'song to seq' is pretty much a requirement if you want to do stuff like laying audio tracks across a song.
All head-scratching stuff from Akai.
marctronixx wrote:The X and live are new directions for AKAI/inmusic.
Regardless if one thinks they rushed these products out or not, they are here now and this is the ground floor. They still have features that will be implemented at some point. Happens a lot to a new product on market.
I can understand if this has been out for a year, but its still not even officially launched and cats complaining.. just give the company a bit of time.
MPC-Tutor wrote:
It's worth remembering that the touchscreen UI is not new, it first featured on the MPC Touch back in late 2015 so Akai have had nearly 2 additional years to implement some of these missing features (plus whatever time they'd already spent working on the touch UI before it was released), list edit being one of the obvious ones as this has been in the blue screen and computer UIs for 3+ years now and TBH I fail to see how this can be in any way a difficult feature to implement.
Brass tacks is that MPC Software 2.0 is not significantly different to the 1.9 bar a new graphical look and IMO some clearly unfinished and rushed features, so while Akai will no doubt release some much needed updates 'soon', I dont think they deserve much in the way of a free ride on this. Customers need to keep the pressure on.
zangetsu01 wrote:... especially to implement all the features we want.
Again back to LIST EDIT, they even put an actual button for that on the X, the X is released but a list editor is nowhere to be seen - surely that button made 'list edit mode' a 2.0.0 priority above most other features?
marctronixx wrote:The X and live are new directions for AKAI/inmusic.
Regardless if one thinks they rushed these products out or not, they are here now and this is the ground floor. They still have features that will be implemented at some point. Happens a lot to a new product on market.
I can understand if this has been out for a year, but its still not even officially launched and cats complaining.. just give the company a bit of time.
but its still not even officially launched and cats complaining
