FW 3.4.2. seems totally unusable for serious music making

Straker wrote:Let's be clear.
Akai has this horrible habit to release unfinished products on the firmware side, and then polish them SLOWLY on the fly.
Unfortunately the audience is so stupid that they defend Akai whatever they do, so Akai keeps going with this horrible habit.
It took years and years and years to fix MPC2 and make it useable, when they started selling MPC with MPC2 it was very buggy, very basic, just not ready to be sold but THEY DID IT.
And we still have main bugs, especially on MIDI side, never fixed after...ugh..8 years?
So MPC3 gonna take years to be stable now, it's been officialy released when it's still at a very beta situation.
Mind that Akai beta testers are mostly drunk or stoned or whatever, they are totally useless or even they can make more damage.
So.... go back to 2.15.1, is stable enough, it works fine, and just let those kids drum finger on a joke called MPC3 before it gets reliable, it will be maybe before 2030.

Straker wrote:So.... go back to 2.15.1, is stable enough, it works fine, and just let those kids drum finger on a joke called MPC3 before it gets reliable, it will be maybe before 2030.

40Beatz wrote:Image this Scenario....

jamos wrote:

40Beatz wrote:Image this Scenario....

That's a little ridiculous. The relationship between a person and their musical instrument is a bit deeper than the relationship between a person and a fast food burger.

It's more like marrying someone who said they plan to go to college and become a lawyer, and then finding out that they only take one course per semester and spend the rest of the time smoking weed.

jamos wrote:

40Beatz wrote:Image this Scenario....

That's a little ridiculous. The relationship between a person and their musical instrument is a bit deeper than the relationship between a person and a fast food burger.

It's more like marrying someone who said they plan to go to college and become a lawyer, and then finding out that they only take one course per semester and spend the rest of the time smoking weed.

jamos wrote:The relationship between a person and their musical instrument is a bit deeper than the relationship between a person and a fast food burger.

Lampdog wrote:

jamos wrote:The relationship between a person and their musical instrument is a bit deeper than the relationship between a person and a fast food burger.

He'd like a word with you.

40Beatz wrote:If a person is a True Musician, they can make serious Music WITH ALL the Bugs in the MPC. ....

That'swhat a True Serious Musician Does. Adapt

jamos wrote:Bologna. The number and nature of bugs in 3.4 x are far beyond acceptable. I haven't used it,

jaymack wrote:

jamos wrote:Bologna. The number and nature of bugs in 3.4 x are far beyond acceptable. I haven't used it,

jamos wrote:
Bologna. The number and nature of bugs in 3.4 x are far beyond acceptable. I haven't used it, but the reports I've seen are dealbreakers. Files that won't load? Crashes during songwriting and performance? Gaps and stuttering when playing? All of these are impediments, barriers, to serious music making.

Adaptability is important for everyone. But there's serious music, and Serious Music. Picture a piano with a broken A#4 key. Can you adapt to that? If you're a honky tonk player in a roadhouse somewhere, probably. Playing Beethoven at Carnegie Hall? Probably not.