I don’t understand the draw to designs that look like Fischer-Price toys.
Also, why do companies bother adding these shitty little speakers?
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May I introduce you to one of the leading Akai competitors, Teenage Engineering whatever, Bento whatever, Chompy whatever, etc etc etc that sells enough to be sold out all the time.
If you google it it looks like they also had it on their website today but the link is dead now
This is going to replace my travel and vehicle groove boxes. Goodbye KO2, PO32 and iPad finger callous.
Review roasts can’t come fast enough, but happily expecting this to get into my portable workflow sketch pad.
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I think they’re trying to hearken back to MPC 60 looks and are also leveraging the fact that just having a cheap plastic enclosure probably lets them reduce a lot of manufacturing cost to make sure it has something that most cheap samplers don’t have: great velocity pads. They also obviously put on a pretty nice screen that gives very detailed waveform views for editing and it looks like it has a pretty focused special version of MPC OS. I don’t understand why they put on the trash speakers either but even those can range. The ones on my OP-XY are actually pretty useful, the ones on my 12XT are permanently disabled. When I had bento the fact that they chose more audio and MIDI IO and no speaker was maybe their best design decision.
I’m curious about the sample lengths/storage, effects, and how long loops can be. If it has a solid master compressor/EQ and looping situation this would be an end of chain no-brainer for lots of folks I think.
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Form factor is a little weird looking but seems functional ux-wise. It could grow on me. A filter per pad would already make it more useful than the 404mk2 and ep-133 for me
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I’ll be honest, toy advertising broke my brain as a child and I kind of love whenever a groovebox reminds me of that aesthetic (ko ii for instance)
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Weird.
Is it just me or is that fader disproportionally big compared to how much travel it has?
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I thought the same thing, like the fader cap is gonna hit the bottom or the top before the actual fader.
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yall ever seen fischer price toys?
it should probably have a skull rippin on a blunt to appeal to us adults
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Ok, this is pretty sweet. I don’t need another portable sampler but damn, this will hook me.
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This looks really great.
Good product for people who find modern MPCs too DAW like.
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Could be a lot of fun. Maybe somebody said it already… I don’t know why, but the 3 knobs above the 4 rows of pads hurts my brain.
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It’s really that Q-Link slider that has me laughing
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Can’t wait for the eventual Andy Mac demo with the Anderton’s guy losing his shit.
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I love synth bro jack so much!
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gotta love that fella 
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It’s just nice to see folks excited about something in this economy.
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cant lie, that stubby lil fader made me realize why TE opted for just a little knob instead of a full fader cap
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