This actually looks pretty interesting!
I’m a bit surprised they ditched the touchscreen (at least it seems that way).
The calculator look is nice!
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I think its cool for people who want to get away from plugins and all the fancy VST in a box kind of stuff that new MPCs are associated with.
With the SD card slot this should be awesome for beats - no worrying about storage like the TE stuff. The knobs and padding look a bit naff mind!
Wonder it you can name samples with the knobs?
Presume they will gimp streaming audio from USB-C but maybe not
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You’re right, would’ve been smarter to go off of known features. Forewarning, this is ROUGH, but I at least try to challenge measurements against each other.
I started with the rear because it has multiple known things, 1/4” ports and usb c port. Here, I defined the usb c port and then challenged it with the 1/4” measurement. Seems to line up pretty nicely so then I can find the widths of the device.
(Edit: there could be a flaw in the measurement here. From this rear angle you’d think the walls taper inward, but the top view seems to show this is a completely vertical wall. This means this could be just a case of strong perspective as we can see from the side view that the wall angles away from the camera. If this is the case, my top measurement of 7.21” should actually be the same as the bottom. This could change things a bit.)
Then for the side I defined the micro sd slot to find the length.
Then for the top, I defined my width and from there I can see how closely the length from that matches the length I found with the side view. As you can see I’m like 0.1” off. That is always a proud moment 
And since that appears to all line up, we can find a rough pad size which, as you called it, is itty bitty at a ~0.71”
Now watch this all be off by like multiple inches. Ya never know!
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gimping a killer feature as type c sampling would be a massive neg. No doubt they will have some program or maybe MPC 3 software which you can easily transfer projects back and forth easily.
Without knowing more details, it does seem like something I be interested in. As I normally make a beat and then transfer to a daw. I use the plug in instruments but majority of the time it gets replaced via vst 99% of the time. It does seem like a Koala Sampler I want. Hope it feels good to use, the data wheel still not keen on as looks fragile compared to the ones of old.
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Sorry I meant streaming back out multi-channel to a DAW. I would like to think sampling in via iPhone etc via USB-C would be a given
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Wow, I was hoping the pads would at least be MPK Mini sized.
Smaller size makes sense. If it were similar in size to the One, i feel like that would be the obvious choice in most cases.
Unless there is no One successor and this is meant to replace it 
Oh heck yeah, I’m guessing that be more of a premium feature but love to be proven wrong.
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This looks great. If they don’t deliberately hamstring it with a max sampling time of 6 seconds, it’ll sell like hotcakes.
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At that price point that’s probably correct
Not sure if its been mentioned already, but I just noticed there’s a dedicated “Flex Beat” shift function…curious as to what other FX this thing has (outside of the ones mentioned in the Synth Anatomy article).
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My thinking exactly.
Hahaha
You don’t see a market? It is almost definitely the biggest market
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This is genuinely the only kind of hardware that I’m in the market for right now
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Yea, a pretty welcome addition imo. If this competes against the sp404 as it appears, I’d be more inclined on picking this up just off the expectation that the workflow will be more sensical.
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Even though it’s been a while that I used a mpc what makes me a little suspicious are the two (?) “recall” buttons in the bottom right corner… is this a mpc thing?
Wonder if that’s their version of the 404 skip back?
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Might be skipback for the one under the sample button, and something like Move / Note / Ableton midi capture under the sequence button
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