MPC Key 61: New FCC Filing From Akai

MPD MPK RAY wrote:

but Greg....

This MPC Key 61 along with the MPC X will have THE standalone beatmaking crown with those Herbie patches from AIR Vacuum and HYPE I imagine

kday wrote:I don't see why MPC owners are the most pessimistic about such an incredible keyboard workstation sampler that appears to be a ingenuous marketing concept, aside from the greatest sampling keyboard ever created. I think MPC owners miss the business standpoint of Akai's intended demographics for a new sampling keyboard in a market that hasn't had one in over forty years. This is humongous, and something I can see a large amount of people will gravitate to. Native instruments were closing in on this idea fast, and Akai had to do something or let Native Instruments Maschine makers build something before Akai did. Where Akai is at the moment with this concept is evolution. When you're leading the market, you have to remain leading the market otherwise you will fall behind and lose market share.

It's not what MPC you already got. Or what MPC or keyboard midi controller they already made, it's about a whole new keyboard machine that keyboard sampler lovers around the world will love, and there are many. Self contained sampling keyboards have been desired and pretty expensive since the beginning. When this technology first came out, the most expensive sampling keyboards were upwards of two hundred thousand dollars fully blown with just a few megabytes of memory. This is an idea most exciting than any workstation to come out in the last ten years. And for a dedicated sampling keyboard in the last forty years. Many people who love MPCs and can afford to buy it, will buy it. People who just love a sampling keyboard built to MPC standards will buy it. I don't think it will have any problem selling at all, especially if it's priced within the $2500- $2900 range. If it goes above the $3000 range the stock bread and butter sounds have to be top notch like Korg and Yamaha quality to justify equal pricing. i have an MPC X, and would sell all three of my top of line flagship big three workstations just to have this one and wouldn't look back. I help with the OS of the Alesis Fusion which tried something like this. It was difficult to sample, like other workstation samplers. But a keyboard workstation with an easy to use MPC interface and OS is probably as good as it's gonna get anywhere.

Straker wrote:The problem is the sound quality of MpC plugins.
They are not bad but not enough for a professional workstation.
Roland Yamaha and Korg are miles ahead for that.

J.O.BEATS wrote:I have no idea if you’re serious or not

Straker wrote:The problem is the sound quality of MpC plugins.
They are not bad but not enough for a professional workstation.

Straker wrote:Roland Yamaha and Korg are miles ahead for that.

kday wrote:I don't see why MPC owners are the most pessimistic about such an incredible keyboard workstation sampler that appears to be a ingenuous marketing concept, aside from the greatest sampling keyboard ever created. I think MPC owners miss the business standpoint of Akai's intended demographics for a new sampling keyboard in a market that hasn't had one in over forty years. This is humongous, and something I can see a large amount of people will gravitate to. Native instruments were closing in on this idea fast, and Akai had to do something or let Native Instruments Maschine makers build something before Akai did. Where Akai is at the moment with this concept is evolution. When you're leading the market, you have to remain leading the market otherwise you will fall behind and lose market share.

It's not what MPC you already got. Or what MPC or keyboard midi controller they already made, it's about a whole new keyboard machine that keyboard sampler lovers around the world will love, and there are many. Self contained sampling keyboards have been desired and pretty expensive since the beginning. When this technology first came out, the most expensive sampling keyboards were upwards of two hundred thousand dollars fully blown with just a few megabytes of memory. This is an idea most exciting than any workstation to come out in the last ten years. And for a dedicated sampling keyboard in the last forty years. Many people who love MPCs and can afford to buy it, will buy it. People who just love a sampling keyboard built to MPC standards will buy it. I don't think it will have any problem selling at all, especially if it's priced within the $2500- $2900 range. If it goes above the $3000 range the stock bread and butter sounds have to be top notch like Korg and Yamaha quality to justify equal pricing. i have an MPC X, and would sell all three of my top of line flagship big three workstations just to have this one and wouldn't look back. I help with the OS of the Alesis Fusion which tried something like this. It was difficult to sample, like other workstation samplers. But a keyboard workstation with an easy to use MPC interface and OS is probably as good as it's gonna get anywhere.

Straker wrote:The problem is the sound quality of MpC plugins.
They are not bad but not enough for a professional workstation..

40Beatz wrote:Problem is....A lot of users want High Quality Preset Samples WITHOUT having to perform any EQ/Comp/FX work on the Samples to clean them up and make em Unique.