EnochLight wrote:I’m interested to see how Drum Synth translates to the MPC. The screen shots suggest that drum parts can be loaded as separate plugin instances, which would really limit its usefulness IMHO, as the MPC can only handle 8 plugins at once. Hoping a proper “kit” plugin instance can be loaded so the other 7 slots can be used for other plugins not related to Drum Synth.
If you look at the pictures (
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpost.php?p=14682637&postcount=22494), you will notice that there's also a multi version of the plugin. Since, unfortunately, the multi version of the Drum Syth only has 2 outputs, the separate versions are a good thing because it will allow us to bounce drums as separate tracks. I really hope there's some kind of "explode" feature to transform a multi-instance of the multi plugin into several drums plugins, so that we could write complete patterns in the grid editor and finish the song by mixing tracks with our DAW (or any other audio tool).
Concerning the limitation of 8 plugins, I guess it will be a little frustrating but I suggest that it's just a question of CPU consumption.
As a side note, if the multi MIDI inputs feature does not come with all those plugins, I don't understand Akai's logic anymore
