October is may 2nd favorite month & Oct 2nd of 2021 is when I got the Force, so to get a Force 2 in Oct would be crazy!
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I will certainly get a Force 2 if this is real.
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Free Jura Chorus:
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Should have been free from the start. Canāt believe they were charging for this LMAO!
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Force MK2 with 32 GB RAM, featuring real-time sample mangling and morphing similar to the Octatrackās crossfader. Akai really needs to build on the strengths of its best unit.
Iād love to see a modern Octatrack/Push-style device with advanced MIDI sequencing capabilities like the Hapax or OXI One. Add a polyphonic harmonizer, real-time arpeggiator manipulation, and performance-oriented features, and it would be the ultimate standalone production workstation.
They need to make better use of the sample pool and implement sample locking on the step sequencer on a per step basis, you would be able to do some Digitakt style sample locking with this feature and come up with some cool ryhythms and loops.
You can add different samples to 8 layers per pad and select to randomise the layers, but itās not the same thing, plus the samples randomise each time the pad is sequenced, which is not what you want everytime.
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LMAO!!! You might want to temper your expectations, friend. 32 GB of RAM? Even the MPC XL comes with 16 GB. Making a new Force with 32 GB RAM (and presumably the same CPU/motherboard as the XL) would make the MPC XL look anemic, and the cost would be extremely prohibitive. Thatās just not being realistic.
The XL is not the real power unit anymore, all mpc new features come from the FORCE. Days of mpc only are gone. For dawless main studio unit Force is the better option. Weāll see what they make of it in october
Are we looking at the same machines? MPC XL is literally the most powerful standalone workstation on the market. Literally. Itās got 16 GB of RAM and runs off of a nVME drive. IYKYK.
No, they donāt. Not all. Some? Absolutely - but not āallā. But thatās besides the point since the two OS essentially merged years ago.
Thatās not what weāre discussing - weāre discussing the very unlikelihood that the new Force would ever get close to 32 GB of RAM. You still have not made a compelling argument. I pointed out that the MPC XL - literally Akaiās flagship machine - would look anemic, and do you really think theyād do that? Lol!
That we can agree on, but again - you seem to be throwing strawman. Stay on topic.
New Spitfire Audio plugins for the Force;
yes, till october itās the most powerful standalone 
Then we got 16g or 32G Force, remember native instruments pluginsā¦
Better is that akai make ram changeable upgrade by user.
How do you know the new Force is gonna have 32GB of RAM?
The XL will most likely still have 2x the amount of Qlinks.
Hopefully, they donāt replace the crossfader with the touchstrip, but instead either have both or add touchstrip capabilities to like changing parameters to the crossfader.
Anyway, I donāt know if itās gonna be more powerful but I think the design of the Force is better for running 3.0, especially if you use the clip-matrix a lot. The current Force is still the only unit with 8 Launch button & the Navigation button/mode. I think this time around a new Force will better received by more MPC users as they have been using the Force OS & will see the benefits of a unit designed the way it is.
You will get neither of these. Not in October, and likely not for another 7+ years if ever. Sorry! 
It will certainly be more powerful than the first Force. Yaāall just need to temper expectations of what that looks like.
Hope they are able to reduce the overall size of the Force 2, Force is a beast and not the most comfortable thing to use on the sofa, they could certainly do that by reducing the width of the 64 pads by half and mirror a 16 step sequencer pattern with 16 pads in length instead of the current 8 like the Synthstrom Deluge.
just let us wait and see 
October just 5 months, pre-launch and Namm 2027 real demo.
Remember inmusic bought native instruments,
Machine+ <=> Force MK2 with enough ram.
8gb is poor by design for the upcoming years.
it canāt be another milkcow to release new units every year.
Hopefully the new edition can fully replace the old octatrack so sampling mangling/morphing with crossfader and other realtime midi tools,performer goodies are included so it can replace the hapax or oxiā¦
If i would like jam on mpc, iāll go for that. But the Force can be so much more for Akai.
I hope they donāt make the pads smaller but they could remove the gaps in between the pads.
Yeah, everyones gonna have a different opinion, but got the MPC Live, One, XL, Sample for all your finger drumming needs, the Force donāt need large pads for sequencing and playing, they could easily slice those pads in half and squeeze a battery in there! 
Itās fine - wait and see. But Iām telling you right now - it will certainly NOT have neither 16 GB nor 32 GB of RAM. Mark my words, and mark this post. You can buy me a beer afterwards.
Agreed!
Thankfully it doesnāt. Theyāre the exact same size as the first Force, which is to say - perfect size.
Force will be Akaiās other gen flagship standing next to XL, but for different userbase.
as XL would be used for hiphop beats - Force would be more EDM,ā¦
Wait and see expect price range like TR-1000 if it have 32gb.
not to mention the whole RAMpocolypse thing going on right now. Enjoy your beer!
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