I agree with you about the 4 knobs, but the users that want this Mini MPC thing wouldn’t mind that limitation. Also, keep in mind that even if it had 16 knobs, you as a human only have at most 2 hands. 
so dramatic… they’re not a ‘killer’ are they? C’mon now… the scroll button might be annoying compared to the 16 of the X, but it works fine.
Sounds like a Faderfox EC4 to me… or a Midi Fighter Twister… it would be great if you could assign the main Q-Link role to these rather than just the individual tasks they control… but the EC4 would have the power to map the majority of the MPC functionality.
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IIRC the mini rumor has already been debunked, in the sense that the leaked FCC filing was for a smaller version (37 keys?) of the MPC keys, not an MPC mini.
I too dream of an MPC mini, but then I look at my MPC One and discover there is very little they could take away without making the workflow worse.
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A smaller footprint MPC, with a no touch and smaller screen, still with the same OS and functionalities.
A real UI nightmare, IMO…
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Killer is too loud word, of course. I just used a common term 
But in some cases it’s very annoying. Mostly, when plugins have horizontal layout. OPx-4, some EQs. To work with one operator or a band I have to constantly jump between pages.
In general, Q-Links are very useful. Even four of them.
Last time I checked, it was the possible MIDI controllers to Q-Links. Probably I should check again.
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I’ve posted this here before, but KikGen’s “hacked” MPC OS allows for mapping of a midi controller to the full Q-Link functionality in standalone mode. I’ve used a midi fighter twister with my MPC Live before and it worked brilliantly.
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But no feedback to the controller, so you get to see on the remote controller the current settings, like you would on the X
With all those knobs and multiple functions it feels like a DAW in a box…
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Too many colors.
Btw they finally posted the 2.12.3 release notes, there isn’t much! And one of them seems to only have been for the desktop software
Stability and reliability
- macOS - Waves plugins can once again be scanned and instantiated.
- A crash that could occur when scrolling through the Activate Plugins window has been resolved.
Well, I don’t need:
- A touchscreen
- Virtual instruments
- Plug-ins
- speakers
- Bluetooth
- WIFI
- Ethernet port
All that drives the price up, An MPC studio mk2 sized, with a bigger/better screen, with larger RAM, same MIDI capabilities is what I want. As you said, like the SP404 mk2, but capable of sequencing gear as the MPC One does.
An updated MPC 1000, in the case of the MPC Studio mk2
“ If the One had a non-touch screen version OS with the classic calculator-green screen & no synth plug-ins would you buy it again?”
Well not with the green screen, but an OLED one same size as the 1000, smaller footprint, same I/O as the One, of course!
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I hope they make that for those interested. The green screen thing was me just messing with you.
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https://x.com/nir_un/status/1734828792038711464?s=20
ya flexbeat is reallly really good lol
I have to dig into the VST and start building my own flexbeat patterns to import into the MPC
wondering if anyone here has any good ones they want to share, i’ll post mine up when i get some cool ones done
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Have you looked at Synthstrom Deluge, especially with new open source firmware?
I’ve seen it, but it is basically unobtainable where I live. Plus, it’s more expensive than the MPC One and the SP404.
The one that it’s close but no cigar is the Polyend Play, but sadly, it doesn’t sample, nor does it have audio inputs. Shame! 
You should go check out the initial selling prices for any previous MPC model.
I might be wrong, but I think the One is the least expensive MPC ever introduced on the market.
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Yeah if you think about it, making a custom mini MPC that can’t immediately use the same single platform and ecosystem they’ve developed for all their other current MPCs would probably be very expensive to develop and maintain. And if they removed some paradigms entirely, like some basic effects, they’d end up with a crippled product that people would complain about.
So my thinking is that a mini MPC is only feasible if it can use the existing platform/OS, which means there are limits on how small they could become while still having a useful touch UI. Perhaps a half inch smaller screen would work, but not much more. And of course, the case could be a lot slimmer like a Push 3.
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There is an MPC Mini. You can buy it for around 150-200€ second hand. It’s called the MPC 500 and it’s crap. Case closed.
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That’s a maybe, this Mini OS could be the current OS but just just have certain features hidden or something. I think the touch is here too stay & it would better to asks for a more responsive screen then no touch screen or as a former touch screen hater, learn to like it by forcing yourself to use it more & developing muscle memory. Now I look at the screen as extra virtual buttons.
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