What audio problems?
Be interested to see how âperformanceâ this box can get when it gets in some ninja hands for vids. Like can you resample a few bars on the fly and slice that then switch from the original pattern/s to playing/recording the slices(with pitch and timestrech/fx etc) in a new empty pattern and mess up the original loop, then throw a few variations of that in to separate clips in the clip launch and then record fx automation per clip etc, then resample a sequence of those launched clips to a new sample/set of slices. And so on⌠All without stopping the sequencer playing? If so then potentially there is âsomeâ scope for performance 
And obvs its super easy to add/remove pattern steps or elements via the screen in patterns for quasi-conditional trigs/variation etc. It misses p-locks, but they arenât the be all and end all. Iâd like em added but I love plenty of music that was made long before they existed
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I guess try a different card and send it straight back if no joy⌠Maybe users on the Akai forum reporting same problem/a fix?
Between track mute and next sequence mode the mpc 1000 is pretty good for jamming. ThThere are plenty of people who use them as a live brain with those 2 modes. Again people are making assumptions seemingly with out understanding the mpc concept.
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Or expecting it to be elektron like box with the things they miss.
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nah i understand it, just not my cuppa tea. thatâs just muting and structure you mention which is fine for some people live but I like more control, to be able to manipulate the audio into something completely different on the spot.
@Yoko yep ^___^
Yep, pointless comparison. Neither company seems to want to take the standout elements of the other, if someone wants âeverythingâ they have to buy an Elektron box and an MPC. Annoying but thatâs how it is for nowâŚ
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This is absolutely true. Previous stand-alone MPCs required you to move a cursor around the display to select controls for a lot of operations. Being able to directly manipulate using a touch display is certainly much nicer.
Youâre of course entirely entitled to your opinion, but it might be good to keep in mind that MPCs have always been somewhat âcomputeryâ in their operation.
Anyway, none of this is a surprise if you remember that âMPCâ originally stood for âMIDI Production Centerâ. The whole point of an MPC is first and foremost to give you all the tools you need to produce a full track. This is in contrast with something like an Elektron box which tend to be primarily designed to give you a step sequencer thatâs optimized for live improvisation.
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I have a 1000 and an octatrack and they are amazing together.
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Indeed. Resampling and drum program assigning on the fly sounds like fun. I just hope the OS implementation will allow this to be done fluently in realtime.
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So, you have a drum loop sequenced and you want to resample it and assign it to program while sequencer is running and then play it live over the one that is currently playing?
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No, that was just what @callofthevoid was wondering. Iâll be content with combining the audio looper with MIDI looping for my âperformanceâ needs, I donât usually mess around with reslicing audio tbh. Still, I am hoping that sampling/resampling can be operated fluently while the sequencer is playing, thatâd open things up considerably (compared to how older MPCs have worked)
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So why are you even in this thread? People who feel the need to comment on things they have no interest in is just weird to me. It would be like me turning up in an opera discussion group and saying âim more of a fan of techno, opera is a bit overblown in my opinionâŚâ 
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oh man just sit down. Iâm very interested in the mpc, itâs just missing something that would make it better in my world so I say it cause I wish theyâd gone 1 step further with it.
and Iâm also trying to see if I can find a workaround to get some extra on the fly manipulation going with it. because Iâm interested in it.
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Hmmm⌠A few missing bits at this early stage is no biggie surely ?! Not unles those things where exactly what you needed this for, other than that the biggest features this thing offered are pretty much in tact and working reasonably well I thought? People really get upset about being misled on a piece of gear they donât own, when we live in an era of the sales pitch⌠were surely used to it by now.
Seems to me theyâve done well considering a launch this big was going to attract huge scepticism from the moment it was announced, and still it stands to be refined, itâs not yet the finished article, like for EG the OT and some other things people keep referencing are.
If you use a DAW anyway, I believe this is the workaround for the few things missing from stand alone?! Personally i hope to ditch my main DAW altogether for music so I hope the refinements happen timely.
I guess sometimes people just want to talk themselves out of having gas tho. 
lol, so youâre schrodingers customer both simultaneously really disappointed and uninterested in the product but also hoping that you can buy it if it was just a totally different product that worked in a totally different way that matches what you want. Good luck with that man. 
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i didnât say that. the new mpcâs are a great leap forward for akai, I said theyâre a great studio tool but Iâm just hoping it can resample n chop on the fly in a creative manner and that itâs automation is decent. itâs automation doesnât appear to be as flexible as Iâd like but.
have you never been critical of anything you are interested in?
hows about you just stop talking to me now, you replied to my group comment and I really donât want to talk to you.
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Seems an akai insider/dev has been answering questions directly here (in his own time/off the clock)
Be a great place to vent concerns and potentially even get some accurate answers before we prematurely pass judgements ?!
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Im here juts trying to understand the mindset. When I donât like a product after testing I am certainly not above moaning about it and pointing out the reasons I donât use something any more (especially to prospective buyers) but its always after Iâve given it a good try and decided I donât like it as an instrument. Not based on specs and a wish-list for a product that doesnât exist.
they refer to him as Dan on that thread. could it be⌠Akai Dan???
i love that gai ^___^
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