Not me. They did that already in the mpc 5000 with a 20 voices virtual analog.
And it actually sounded quite good.
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A synth of sorts has been a big request for the new MPCās. Wouldnāt seem much of a stretch for me to see it introduced in some update.
If it indeed is a synth, I hope it has some sort of FM as wellā¦ Iāve more than enough subtractive synth voices already at my disposal 
But! If there are new menus now, that will throw my muscle memory off. AGAIN. Theyād better introduce those MENU + Pad shortcuts soon!
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Yeah, I appreciate that they put the miniak VA engine into the 5000 but having used the Live I have little faith that it could handle this sort of thing without compromise/issues.
Iāve owned a miniak too. Lovely synth actually. I just doubt the hardware could do it justice. A Live 2 on the other handā¦
You mean in terms of cpu power ?
I think the CPU is there, easily. You couldnāt exactly have 4 x 128 effects per drum program on the MPC5000 now could you? A miniak engine would have no probs
Akai Dan already said on the gearsluts forum they donāt have the code for the MPC5K synth anymore, which is a shame, as it was the same as the Miniak.
That is quite disappointing to hear!
On the other hand, the AIR virtual instruments that come with the current MPCs are quite good (though I havenāt used that much because the MPC software hurts my eyes) so IF there is a synth, it might be good
I was actually a little surprised they didnāt shoehorn one of the AIR synths on release.
I remember pre release feeling that Akai were almost deliberately focussing on 3rd party instruments not being supported on hardware to the point that it built up an expectation that a 1st party synth would run on the thing.
A decent synth would quite possibly tempt me back to the Live though. Iām sure loads has changed since I sold mine over a year ago.
Thatās so stupid from themā¦
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sheesh, Akai is drumming up hype for 2.3 like its going to be second coming of christā¦ Now someone rumouring about plugins on GS? Need to buy some more popcorn!
This is starting to sound like Akai is not going to give us what weāve asked, but instead has something new coming to the tableā¦ tablesalts at the ready!
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The hype train is very confusing indeed. Really hoping for the midi to be fleshed out. Been a long time waiting for multi-timbral sequencing.
As in actually usable ? That would be swell 
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check your accounts, 2.3 is there
downloadingā¦
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Ooh! Ooh! 
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Just saying that this is HUGE.
Wh wants to buy my Deluge?
whats in it?
Tell us. Tell us now!