Ok - So this will be the first MPC model to be factory released with a third Party OS as standard. (i.e. no buggy Akai OS)
With the MPC5000K, For the first time; Akai sub contracts the new OS externally to JJ and they develop JJ OS3 after full product functionality testing from actual dedicated and knowledgable MPC experts ( & Just Blaze! ) running the pre-release beta hardware/software. -
Once the exhaustive testing phase is complete and the hardware is shipped from the factory with JJOS pre-installed, there would be a rapid OS uplift/development cycle and JJ would contractually need to provide regular OS updates/fixes/feedback (yep! like he does now).
Result: Akai have a hastle-free flagship product release and a happy user population who then start to rebuild their confidence in the Akai brand.
Oh but wait... ...the extra overhead of employing JJ starts to eat in to Akai's profits and the corporate accountants just can't seem to make ends-meet!
Akai's CEO is eventually forced to accept a 5% (or $2,000,000) salary cut, yikes!!!.
Then, as things get worse, Akai need to cut more costs and that little guy with the welfare spectacles who demonstrates the MPC5000 by playing those lame 90's techno tunes at NAMM get's canned and ends up as a junior product demonstrator for Casio's 'pop-star' series of arranger keyboards (In Walmart!)
It goes from bad to worse and eventually Akai/Numark sink into administration and are acquired by Google for $100 - Under their new brand 'Googlkai' They go on to release the world's first internet-ready hardware sampler that runs on java from within an internet explorer front-end. The good news is that searching for your samples is really fast but, on the flip-side the sampler keeps crashing with a '404 - Page not found' error whenever you try to load your project...
...no perhaps this wouldn't work out then!
Right I need to go now - it's time for my medication!!!
Ok my photoshopping skills need some work - but I'd buy the MPC5000K!!!!
