What do we think Akai is bringing? A new MPC, 3.0 firmware or another plug-in?
Just seen this on their IG story 
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breakfast drink. a red one.
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So sick of this brand honestly…they’ve really put a stain on their pedigree with all their cash grabs over the past decade or so.
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Beet juice? Except they’ll call it “beat juice” I suppose.
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Looks like I sold my OG Live just in time!
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New hardware’s a tricky one for them now, I expect, as they ideally want to sell to the existing MPC user base - so anything that is new would really need to come with backwards compatibility, but still offer an improvement over the existing gear. I guess they could just launch a replacement MPC One with a built-in speaker, or some fancy shoes or something.
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An MPC Mini with a battery could be awesome!!
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New firmware?
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My money is on the leaked new Mpc X with all plug-ins and more ram.
My hope is Mpc 3 in line with the Force…
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You’d think a new MPC would have been announced at NAMM. Were they an attendee? That might be a clue. If they weren’t there, then I’m guessing a new X model and a OS to go with it and the whole range.
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Plug-in or controller. That’s my guess…
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It’s the MPC XL. Sweetwater has already stopped selling the X after severely discounting it to move remaining inventory.
Internally I imagine it’s the MPC Keys.
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This. in the MPC studio form factor and in dark blue/grey pads & oled screen. Put the soul back in it.
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In all reality if it’s not breakfast I think it’s going to be portable, the mpc live 2 is too heavy and expensive to market against the wave of minis. It will probably be a specialty gameboy with non velocity pads and a touch screen.
Firmware that makes you connect to the internet before you can use your MPC?
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New subscription model for note polyphony ?
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Plug-in version of their filter bank from decades ago ?
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We’re also waiting on an updated APC40, but does that really qualify as “something new”?
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As you boot up or shut it down, the splash screen is a giant middle finger. If you don’t connect to the Internet at least once a day, it will change all midi sequences to be almost the melody from Sandstorm, and randomly pitch all of your samples up or down 4.5 semitones.
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They will announce employee of the month. His name is Tim and he is doing great job testing MPC firmware for years. Good work, Tim!
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I rather like sandstorm.
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