I agree. I wish all music manufacturers would just concentrate on one super high end flagship product and ignore the medium and entry level products all together.
That way we could just save up our thousands of dollars instead of hundreds, then eventually buy the one single perfect product. A great side effect is that it will totally block out people like myself - absolute chud wanker posers who care more about the look of the logo and if my new purchase is popular on Insta or not.
Second side bonus effect is the forum will be super quiet and easier to navigate with only a handful of users and forum topics. But you know these big mega-Corp music companies… anything for a buck.
#killkillkillkillkillthepoor
My 7 iPads are painterly waiting for their new midi pad controller.
i just wonder if they put the same shameless input audio converters than on the last gen of MPC … anyway i’m happy with the 404mk2 … enough money wasted with the One.
It was on Zoundhouse.de website on Feb 18th and now it’s a 404. They probably added it then disabled the page. So when embargo is off they just republish.
I like what I see so far. It seems there’s no touchscreen, which might mean a more straightforward approach, with fewer features but the right ones that lead to an immediate workflow and faster results.
Hopefully it’s something closer to the MPC 1000 in this form factor, without overly complicated menu diving, but still with the essentials: the classic Akai drum sampling and chopping workflow, plus MIDI tracks to sequence external gear.
Who says it’s the lowest form of wit… it’s hilarious, right!??
It’d be such a boring thread if we didn’t have alt-comedy geniuses.
I can almost smell the cheetos fingers from here.
Back OT: I don’t think the MPC KO is for me, but it looks interesting.
I have no idea why they would put a colour screen on it though… it would have elevated it with an old school two-tone LED screen.
Seems crazy to call it more hands on when it has like a tenth of the buttons of even the live 3, but ok.
I think Akai are laughing about this thing internally, I don’t think they could bring themselves to put a monochrome display too, just a step too far in 2026.
With hopefully the omission of touch, I pray it be like the old workflow of the old MPCs. Live has more buttons but you don’t have to interact with them all the time due to the touch display. Plus the UI is more congested because it’s a swiss army knife. The MPC sampler which is all speculation mind you from me, seems more intuitive and for me more hands like the old samplers of the day. I won’t love the mono display too, but I guess the newer gen would be like WTF?.
