MPC X SE – EA-ski SONICS controversy vs BLACK LION audio mod

rottencat wrote:

B-Wise wrote:How are your tracking Akai product sells in order to factually say what selling like hotcakes?

SE is is holding #2 position in samplers sales rank rank since it became available in Thomann store. Its also the most expensive one. Not too shabby. https://www.thomann.de/intl/cat_rank.ht ... &gk=TASYSA

I'm sure it is selling, but separately, those 'bestseller' lists can be even remotely relied on for anything. For a start, what's the scale? Maybe the bestseller sold 2 units, the MPC X sold 1.

Bestseller lists are ultimately a way for the retailer to push certain products, they can be manually manipulated to suit this weeks sales target.

rottencat wrote:

B-Wise wrote:How are your tracking Akai product sells in order to factually say what selling like hotcakes?

SE is is holding #2 position in samplers sales rank rank since it became available in Thomann store. It's also the most expensive one. Not too shabby. https://www.thomann.de/intl/cat_rank.ht ... &gk=TASYSA

Thanks for the link. I don't use that site since I'm in the US, but it ranks by daily sales, so a new product selling more than others that already had its rush isn't saying much.

I looked for a all time best sells list, but everything that I found ranks by daily sells, unless I'm mistaken. On 1 list for best selling Grove Boxes it had the MC 101 at like #11 & the TR-8S at #1 but once again it's ranks by daily sells who knows If the X SE is selling like hot cakes based on that site's ranking system.

Do you have another way for tracking Akai sells?

DokBrown wrote:https://www.elektron.se/us/analog-heat-mkii-explorer

I just suggested BLACK LION b/c it will integrate into your MPC & not take up any new space in your rig but no1 seems to be able to vouch for it, so I’m gonna give that a hard pass

quickstrike209 has done a video on the Black Lion mod: