Maybe you’re right. When i wrote this i was thibking about the 8bit effect on the rhytm and thought how shit it would be ig i could that only toggle between 0 and 100%
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Can be, or it can be a disaster. “Everything and the kitchen sink” doesn’t a good product make, IMHO.
I prefer a company with strong ideas of their own, and offer up a product with things I hadn’t thought of, then release it, then field customers for feature suggestions, then filter out all of the ones which don’t fit in with the concept, and implement the ones that do.
Trying to please everyone and somehow think your product can be all things to everyone seems likely that it will not be a well designed or considered product, to me.
Seems to me like they are trying to get the market to conceptualise their product for them.
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Nah. More likely PR department being busy keeping the buzz around B going. A lot of these announces are clearly timed to troll competitors.
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Now that you mention it I remember that there’s a similar function on the Digitakt which effectively changes bit depth gradually. But on the MPC Live it’s a toggle because it’s a different function: 12bit aka “I want that old mpc 60 sound”. It’s not as dramatic a change as the rytm 8bit I guess. (there’s a lot of difference in quality between a 12bit sample and a 8bit sample). But yeah, a progressive bit depth would be nice anyway.
Turn it upside down
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Sure you can–that was the basis for Apple’s (only partially successful) suit against Samsung over phone GUIs. There was never any claim that the layout was “identical,” but some courts found that Samsung had copied the iPhone’s user interface and “style.” And while US copyright law doesn’t allow you to patent an “idea” alone, if it has been incorporated into a manufactured product, you can certainly patent it.
Well, that would be the key question–I’m sure Akai has all kinds of patents related to the MPC, though. I suppose Akai’s lawyers can sort that out. I’m not saying that Akai would necessarily win, but it’s not accurate to say that there’s no potential legal issue here. Of course, it will all depend on what Behringer actually makes…
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Fixed it 
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They claimed patent infringement, not copyright infringement. They’re not the same.
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You’re right–I misspoke in my original post.
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Correct but the objection was rather to you’r initial statement that insinuated that UI can’t be IP nor protected. Which of course is incorrect.
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I very specifically said it can’t be copyrighted, which is true. I also said other forms of IP might be relevant, so I don’t know how you have read that as insinuating it can’t be protected by any form of IP. I was specifically saying it can’t be protected by copyright because that’s what hallucigenia referred to originally (but has pointed out was not what was meant).
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Good for Behringer! We need more companies making groove boxes this would benefit the consumer and maybe we can get more features and reasonable prices. I don’t see many groove box choices out there compared to synth’s.
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Yeah, like I said, I’m a writer so I think in terms of copyright, when of course what I meant was patent. We’re all on the same page now… 
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the MPC has lo-fi & freq shift insert effects that cover the same ground as the lo-fi fx page on the Octatrack - more useful than the ‘vintage mode’ that first appeared in the MPC Ren software/control surface.
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yes, “vintage mode”, that’s it:
“Vintage Mode: This determines the type of emulation applied to the audio output. You can apply the particular
sonic qualities of, for example, the MPC3000 or MPC60, or of course no emulation (None).”
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it’s not about the Hype it’s a we’ll spread market research for free, the fact that people go nuts with such a release gives the best early feedback and constructive criticism if you filter the level between full hate and full love for such a mock-up.
it will lead to something different in the future but it will work, because of our feedback in every direction. word
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I really hope they make an updated BCR2000. That and the BCF2000 were probably one of the best things they did in the 2000s.
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They make the x touch as an updated replacement.
Sure it is about the hype, market research without any precision is not very useful. So in this case it’s more about getting the word out, then getting the word in.
Pooling data from actual market research is very effective, pooling data from facebook comments without any verification on the person giving it, not so much.
The companies i’v been involved with have gathered different target groups made them sign NDA’s and simply picked their brains on very specific subjects, of course the conversation is broad to make it easy for the participants, but make no misstake they have very specifics questions they want answered.