If it’s true, it’ll be revamped version of X with more RAM, more storage, touch strip and so on…
The new X.
I’m certain it will have all the plugins and even a few new ones on it.
No chance they are removing the 16 qlinks.
Will also add the touch strip.
I was gonna say exactly the same that would be cool. This did make me dig back in to the q links again and yes slice can be mapped to the q links and automated from there. I really don’t tend to set up complicated set ups for project wide q links but it’s so deep man. For any moaning I ever do about the MPC I’ve got to say they really really killed it with the q link section. It’s insanely deep. I usually basically use programs like drum racks and do stuff in the sequence but the programs are much more like build your own instrument on new MPCs.
but yea I guess the XL will be an X retro With the ram bump and CPU from the keys. Not really fussed at all if so. Not really sure what more they could add to the X to tempt me hardware wise. A 3090ti? Custom water cooling loop? lol
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a touch strip… really?.. instead of a fader… in all honesty that would just piss me off, or let me rephrase that it would be farfetched for me to find myself ever endeavoring in favor of such a design choice blah…
the workflow of the mpc is uniquely and especially made for the use of Q-link faders, nothing wrong with knobs but they need to bring a couple of faders back asap
and if they do do an xL, with the xL’s layout orientation they’ll sell so many that Ihop will have to start distributing them
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I also vote for faders instead of a touch strip! Then it will be useful instead of a gimmick.
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just realised the reason you can’t use the erase button while playing is because if you hold it and the pad you want to erase it clears notes at the playhead
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Touch strip being a gimmick is false.
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Why not both
oh sure , knobs, faders, and touch strips would be fantastic
Has anyone noticed the update to Tubesynth in 2.11?
Looks like it’s had a GUI update, and I’m not sure if these functions have always been available, but it seems to me that it’s suddenly a really good Virtual Analog synth.
Edit- Did I really completely miss how good Tubesynth is in the past?? Or is this a new version of it?? It’s superb!
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Id like to go back to no screen or a much smaller one. Since theyve gone to the ipad screen its lost some of its mystery.
I just wish you could step sequence like on the MPC2000 etc. Would be super easy to implement into the list edit I think, which to be fair, I thought you could already do until I got the Live.
Be nice if it just had an “Enable all steps” button, which would mean the current mode wouldn’t need to change at all, for anyone who’s used to it as is. And then you could step through every step at your chosen TC setting and input notes and whatever other info per step. Ideally like the 2000 it would trigger any sounds on the step when you navigate to it.
This way of step sequencing is probably my favourite type of sequencing I’ve tried and I’ve tried a LOT, everything from DAWs including the original Cubase on Atari, Protracker and Octamed on Amiga, Elektron boxes, obviously the MPC2000 and the list goes on haha.
Please bring it back Akai! 
I think if you hit REC while in the List editor, you can put a note down and advance a step
I think. I could be wrong. Not by the MPC at the moment
I loved that 2000xl sequencing too. So fast for the music I like to make
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Just tried and it works!
I just learnt something
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Yeah you can input notes but it’s pretty strange since you can’t see the steps until they exist and can only see ones that do and have note data, as far as I can see anyway.
The way I picture it, “enable all steps” would mean the list edit page would change to equate to one step at a time, at the chosen TC with all the note and CC type data, instead of a list of all the steps. And you would use +/- to move from step to step. Think that makes sense? haha
People are crying for an arranger, but a really slick step sequencer would be amazing.
(I’m tipsy)
I’ve just found something cool with 2.11 Ratchets and Probability;
Probability works across ratcheted notes. Sounds simple, but it’s cool.
So if you split one 1/4 note up into 4 ratchets, then set the probability to 50%, each single ratchet has a 50% chance of triggering, so you get random rhythms from it. Quite nice.
BUT… I think it’d be good to have the other option too (which is how I thought it would work automatically), where if the ‘master’ 1/4 note triggers on a 50% probability, all the ratchets trigger.
still only a week into the MPC One but so far sequencing different programs on individual Tracks externally via Pyramid seems to work fine.
I dig MPC’s song mode, it’s one thing I’m glad they’ve kept. The more like Ableton it becomes, and the less like an MPC it is, the less I’ll want to use it tbh, since funnily enough I want an MPC to be an MPC. For those that want it to be Ableton, Push exists tbh haha 
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I’m not adverse to both existing ofc, as long as the MPC workflow remains, not as a replacement though.