Good News! I think.

master-ceo wrote:
JJ also has nothing to do with the 500, 4k or the 5k being bugged out. So can Akai explain that?
Screw them for trying to use JJ as a scape goat.

Akai could have the BEST portable Music Productin Machine ever and they keep playing.

Stop Playing Akai!! Get a dedicated coder on the job and give us something to look forward to.
You need to have at least 2-3 coders to each Production Model.

HOOK US UP! We spend money. I got MPD32/MPD24/MPC1000/MPC500 -Add that up

JJ is succesful because he knows what we want. A bug free MPC with new/cool features to play with.
This is what we do. This is what keeps us motivated to make music. This is our life.

I agree. It's not JJ to blame but Akaipro themselves (or is it Numark-Alesis now?). That will be a lesson for them: DON'T UNDERPAY A GOOD CODER or you'll find yourself in a mess. That's what they are in currently...

Anyway, a bit of OS competition would only do them (and us) good. JJ has established a quality standard for MPC's OS. So Akai should follow suit and try to make it better than his version.

Come on guys, make it a "MacOS" for MPC, not Windows!

stan steez wrote:

stan steez wrote:I sent the link to the original post to JJ, to see his reaction. If you accuse someone of something, he/she should at least know about it...

Here's what the guy from the JJ-Support Email (Murai) had to say:

I do not understand JJ well, either.
Therefore, I do not understand whether this is a true thing, either.

Thank you.

So, nothing helpful on that matter...

All this tells me is that JJ did it. Come on dude, you would think they would have a better response. For all I know fvck JJ. That dude bugged and broke the 1k on purpose before leaving Akai and made everyone pay for an OS that would of been free and if he would of still been at Akai he probably would of been working on the 5k and the 500 OS.

Some things about the response strike me as rather odd...

First of all, how can someone "add bugs"? If they have any quality control, no programmer can simply screw up the code for a system, deliberately or not. You will catch serious errors before the units leave the company.

If JJ was simply releasing code AKAI wanted to implement, why didn't they do so themselves? That way they could have cut off JJ's efforts straight away.

And why the hell would legal actions hurt the customers? I smell BS here.

Well, JJ can prove his innocence by developing a brand new os for the 500

eimer wrote:Well, JJ can prove his innocence by developing a brand new os for the 500

Well in that case JJ is the man. =)

I like your thinking.

motormind wrote:Some things about the response strike me as rather odd...

First of all, how can someone "add bugs"? If they have any quality control, no programmer can simply screw up the code for a system, deliberately or not. You will catch serious errors before the units leave the company.

If JJ was simply releasing code AKAI wanted to implement, why didn't they do so themselves? That way they could have cut off JJ's efforts straight away.

And why the hell would legal actions hurt the customers? I smell BS here.

Not add bugs but he left them there on purpose so the product can hit the market with problems.

JJ was behind the whole programming of the machine therefore there is no on one out there that would know the machine better than JJ himself. JJ had been working with Akai for years so they obviously trusted the guy.

And if Akai took legal actions with JJ then his OS would be out the market therefore you have unhappy owners of the MPC's he made an OS for. And yes I understand that Akai should be responsible for a better OS than JJ's but JJ was the brians behind the whole MPC.

Akai did underpay him for what I heard though. So JJ just got payback.

mikolo wrote:

JJ - JJ (Hayashi) did work for us. He was the software engineer on the MPC1000 and MPC2500.

How could JJ be responsible for the bugs in the 500 if he didn't work on it!!?

nobody said that jj was responsible for the bugs in the 500.

Just got this in:

I have not said that being written by the forum is a fact.
I wanted to say that it does not understand since JJ is not known in detail.
I know.
JJ is not Hayashi.*
He is a friend [...]** of Hayashi.
I asked JJ.
Listen to the fact from Hayashi.
You will be told if the comment from Hayashi is obtained.

murai

* My own emphasis
** I removed JJ's real name here!

That dude bugged and broke the 1k on purpose before leaving Akai and made everyone pay for an OS

the free JJ version fixes the AKAI bugs and adds extra features.

the pay for OS adds even more features on top of this, (stuff AKAI haven't put into the 5000!)

this just in:

hayashi is in fact just another alias, a nickname if you will
"hayashi" is in fact Robin Hood, yes folks, Robin Hood.

Come on guys!
How many serials do you think jj os has been sold? I think if he would "broke the machine and fill it with bugs" for money he was stupid.
$30-50 for work of hundreds of hours, that isn't so much. When first 1k os's with serial came out he prolly sold them pretty much and often but not anymore. I don't believe that he is selling anymore serials more than one per day or sumthing, mpc os "business" can't make him rich and def can't be very stable way to get bills paid.

2 laban: Man, MPC-forums host over 30000 MPC users (according to MPC-Tutor). I suppose, his income from selling serials can be measured in 5-digit figures in $. And one serial per day for $30-50 means $10-15K per year ))) Not bad at all, if you ask me

Still disagree. 15k in year is def not much compared to basic incomes for a working person.

laban wrote:Come on guys!
How many serials do you think jj os has been sold? I think if he would "broke the machine and fill it with bugs" for money he was stupid.
$30-50 for work of hundreds of hours, that isn't so much. When first 1k os's with serial came out he prolly sold them pretty much and often but not anymore. I don't believe that he is selling anymore serials more than one per day or sumthing, mpc os "business" can't make him rich and def can't be very stable way to get bills paid.

Nobody said he was making a living on this... He obviously had worked at Akai so Im sure his JJ OS was done or almost finished while being on the Akai Pro payroll. All Im saying is that JJ did all this to get payback on Akai and make a little cake while he is doing this.

laban wrote:Come on guys!
How many serials do you think jj os has been sold? I think if he would "broke the machine and fill it with bugs" for money he was stupid.
$30-50 for work of hundreds of hours, that isn't so much. When first 1k os's with serial came out he prolly sold them pretty much and often but not anymore. I don't believe that he is selling anymore serials more than one per day or sumthing, mpc os "business" can't make him rich and def can't be very stable way to get bills paid.

who said he was living off of selling os serials? so many people on these forums is idiots.