What if....

we HAD to pay for the new O.S. Like for example... selling it with the hard drive add on. How much would you be willing to pay for the extra features?

NOTHING, i paid enough bucks to get the mpc, load up my ram and get a bigger cf card than 32 mb, i guess a bit support should be included !

it would be sass - i dont think that akai will do it

Believe me it won´t cost anything...all the new OS can do, is already in the mpc...it has only more features which can be used now. But you have already paid for ur mpc, never forget this...In times where people are downloading hole music libraries and hole film libraries NO COMPANY would come to the idea to charge an 5 MB big file seriously...

btw. what is the big deal about the new OS? The only thing that matters is...the older OSs up to 1.7 were nothing than garbage. And now akai is gonna to bring the first 1k OS which is worth to be called a good OS. That´s it...

plus all the os updates have always been free

Tru dat. But that would be some sick sh!+ and i mean sick in a bad way. I trust that akai would not pull some crazy jack move like that. but if push came to shove how much WOULD you spend? I would spend at least 50-100 bucks for a 80 gig hard drive/ 2.0 upgrade.

naugie wrote:plus all the os updates have always been free

What about a new manual? can we down load that for free?

there is no way on earth they could charge for it.

a.) its not a hardware upgrade
b.) everyone will just post it on yousendit, there is no way possible to curb this.

I reakon it will be free, and once its in the public domain nobody will pay for it.

ok then samuraisam, where we gonna get our hard drive adapters from in dubai??

intermodal wrote:I reakon it will be free, and once its in the public domain nobody will pay for it.

ok then samuraisam, where we gonna get our hard drive adapters from in dubai??

shit, another mpc-forums user in UAE. lol

well. im no longer in the UAE, im in australia, i won't be buying one until i really need it, or unless a local dist has one, because i already have a 40 gb hd and im pretty sure it'll work. i just dont see the need at the moment.

otherwise, i wouldn't even bother touching the distributers in the UAE, there are actually none, i'd email AKAI, and tell them your situ, and ask them to ship one. be prepared to pay big bucks for shipping. or try and get a friend/family member from another country to somehow send it to you.

Waldorf used to charge for an upgrade from their micro-Q lite to the full micro-Q. This was just a software upgrade by sysex - no hardware involved at all.
Personally, I wouldn'thave a problem in paying for a significant upgrade like this. Akai must have spent considerable R&D bucks on doing this upgrade. And although some folks on this group seem to feel otherwise, I bouth my MPC1000 for the features it had, not on some weak speculation that timestretching or zoning would be implemented in future (did Akai ever promise this, anyway?).

wigworld wrote:Waldorf used to charge for an upgrade from their micro-Q lite to the full micro-Q. This was just a software upgrade by sysex - no hardware involved at all.

i see your point there.
the main difference though is that when people were buying microQ lite, they did now beforehand that they would have to pay for an upgrade to the full microQ if they needed it.

i guess that's were the difference lay beetween "update" and "upgrade".

actually i would personnaly not mind paying a few bucks for the new features (which i never thought they would happen!).

but i think it would be a bit desapointing to have to pay, and Akai would look bad for lots of people.

i am sure that on more generalist music-tech forum, everybody would be dissing akai big time if they did not release the os for free.

but anyway sparq's contact said it would be free, and this will make a great advertisement for akai, and they will make more cool machines in the future

i mentioned this in another post. (lets just say i didn't have what i have) if it came out and it had to be obtained by paying for it, depending on the price (up to around $50) i probably would pay for it.

the reason why i say that is because i am an avid user of Reason and ever sense v1.0, all updates were free to registered users up until version 3.0. when 3.0 dropped it was a significant upgrade/update. so propellerhead felt justified in charging even to registered users. anyone who read the other threads can agree this is not just an os update, it is really more like an os upgrade (with all the new features we never even hoped for) akai can justify charging. but that has been confirmed that they will not charge for it.

I reakon it will be free, but i agree with sparq, I would pay a little for it, this is actual development work that akai have done as opposed to bug fixing. Its like OSX going to 10.4 such a big upgrade it costs.