Force II spitballing

I like your ideas, mrmarbury.

- I would be OK with differentiating button feel
- layout changes are fine, sure
- always more q-links! As long as they still have the OLED scribblestrips
- I think that a tilting base for the whole device would also be a good option
- I still suspect that the audio track limitation is an I/O limitation, so a faster bus would be necessary
- I agree with more RAM options
- I'm OK with using an external interface. I see the point; more is nicer but as long as a good, high speed, class compliant external option is OK it's not a very big deal to me
- I don't hook mine up to computers, so while I'm not arguing, the audio interface feature makes no difference to me
- Improved audio interface support is always good (but I suspect that adding a buffer option is all that it would take)
- I don't use Ableton, so I don't care about this at all. In fact, if it makes the device more expensive for everybody, I think that this would be a bad idea for everybody except Ableton users, who should probably buy a Push instead.

Time signatures are really a must. MPC. II does it, so why not the force that everybody works in 4/4
More audio output, so you’re gonna have to add an external device.
24-bit or why not 32-bit sampling; curious to know why I haven’t seen anybody else demanding this feature. If we are to use this machine for production, why would it not have the mid rates of other machines so we can transfer samples from one to the other and have the highest quality.

I have to say nowadays I use my force a lot in the living room on the couch. Wouldn’t mind a battery at all.

There is another option - the same way that they cut down the format of the MPC to reach the MPC One, they could try to make a MiniForce which, rather than providing the big control surface and big audio I/O and so on, leans into being a studio master with more USB, more MIDI, and perhaps even a bigger screen. Of course, without the 8x8 grid, the workflow would change dramatically so perhaps that wouldn't work.

How about making it a clamshell format and adding a battery for the mobile stage warriors?