Agree, I reckon they’d have trouble shifting this at over a grand. As you say a lot of the R&D work has already been done for the controller.
I reckon somewhere £699 - £899 on release. Full spec of course.
I’ll be deleting those samples it comes with before so much as a listen! Bugger that…
Just hope it’s (Live) released very soon, I ordered and cancelled the Touch no less than 3 times this year, love the workflow but the PC thing kept putting me off as knowing my luck the computer would go tits up 2 days later!
Come on Akai, release the sweet meats!
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MPC Live looks the goods, would fit so many peoples workflows. Standalone, battery powered, ticks so many boxes.
The step arranger with the touch sensivity looks amazingly fast to program.
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I’m really interested, I just want to know if it will have effects when working standalone and how the workflow could be.
I got it with the usb floppy emulator. I do have an external scsi on it too.
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Although i love my AR very much, i might end up selling it to fund the MPC Live.
I’ll let it show it’s colors, first.
Really, REALLY want this to be a new mpc 1000 with more modern effects! And faster workflow
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I think now with the leaked they screw this marketing operation :
MPC TOUCH
Was 799$ NOW 599$
Offer valid a limited time. Ends 12/31/16
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So it’s looking like MPC Live IS actually going to be a hybrid battery powered MPC touch?! I’m having such a problem not believing this to be the MPC holy grail
Nope. You misunderstanding. MPC LIVE will be a real standalone MPC nothing to do with MPC Touch except the cosmetic and the fact that it will handle 2.0 OS internally.
from trusted people working in music shop it will be massive but we’ll have to wait a bit again…
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Damn. I’ll still hope. Maybe they’ll offer an upgrade which would be very tempting. It could potentially change the entire game. (At least until OT2 with OB Love)
Its also about how many units will be sold to cover design and manufacture costs.
Yeah for sure 
If akai don’t bodge it I’d say it’s safe to guess they’ll sell a ton. Seems like there’s so many MPC heads out there that have been waiting on something like this. And the price/feature ratio looks like it’ll pull in a lot of other standalone dudes and also steal sales from potential NI and Push… Like I’d have a hard time buying a Maschine when I could get the MPC that does the controller/daw integration thing PLUS battery powered standalone… This will probably/hopefully become the norm over next couple of years…
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IMHO one selling point of the MPCs always has been the ease of use and the entire workflow. It just worked for so many people whithout the need to dig deep in the manuals. If AKAI keeps up to this in a new stand alone unit, it would be surprising, if it wouldn’t generate a huge interest and satisfactory sales figures.
For me, the Octatrack was always the equivalent of a small studio - I had some material, and I could then record it and work with it and master it, provided I knew what I was doing in regards to the Octa’s limitations. I always looked at is as an eight-tracker for the ages, not a sampler.
This was also one of the dealbreakers for me when it came to the Toraiz. For as much as it can do, it’s just not a tool suited for recording. Nor does it claim that it is - it’s not inherent in the word “sampler” than you should be able to sample minutes at a time. But there’s nothing out there yet, as a stand alone hardware unit, that can match the Octa in this regard. The Roland SP:s fall short in other areas, for this purpose.
I’m hoping this new MPC can be that next step as a recording solution, where sampling and the workflow is the technique, but not the end game for what you can and can’t put into the tool.
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Yeah this is potentially a bit of a game changer in terms of the features it pools together. Probably not as wild as OT but for everything else it looks like the progression I’ve been waiting to see. Finally!
I’m kind of hoping it’ll be lacking in areas where the OT won’t, that matter to me. I want to get an OT again. I really liked working with it. But given the times, and that I don’t need it just right now, but eventually I will or something like it, I just want to feel like I’m coming home again.
Kind of like the grandpa of recording and sampling. Sure, it’s old. Sure, it looks a bit dated. But there’s shit it can do, that these young touch screen rascals with their wifi haircuts and padded goggles just can’t.
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OT is a keeper for sure. I just personally struggle with finishing tracks I start in it. I’m probably not using it how it was intended or something. Just that final stage always feels like ballache. But for inspiration etc OT rules. Thinking the mpc will be kind of the yin to that yang. Killer 4 box combo with OT and Sp404 for fx and Op1 for weird/quick sequencing…
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I’ll need a larger desk…
I don’t think even Elektron had a clear idea of the OT:s intention. It’s like “There’s gotta be something you can do with this technique. Let’s just cram it into a box and see what happens. Users will figure it out. Call it something familiar enough. Sampler! Yes, not exactly a crowded market right now. So let’s take that position. And go from there.”
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