EnochLight wrote:johnnytravels wrote:And to add insult to injury, they added a favorites browser to plugins, which originally were an afterthought to a sample program-based system. .
Counterpoint: plugins in standalone were planned from the very start for this new gen-MPC/Force platform, and I'd argue absolutely required to maintain a competitive, feature-rich, modern music production device. 
That is not a counterpoint but just a random claim to the contrary. My argument is backed by the long history of the platform as a sampling platform and by the way these plugins had but a barebones implementation after they were tacked onto the existing program/keygroup sturcture and were just there to tick a few boxes that the Maschine and esp. the Electron grooveboxes already ticked (internal synth engines). The ones we got with the last update were definitely in anticipation of the MPC Keys.
But my general point is not that the plugins are lame, or bad, or uncool, or anything, but that they get file management features that the file browser (which was there from day one) still hasn’t gotten (and these features were promised for the initial 2.0 update which, one could argue, technically received it in the MPC software). And I think that is really lame of Akai.
