nah that’s an mpc mini, the HMPC would be a handheld that only had the sequencing, sample editing, muting, and fx
for my use it wouldn’t need to have programs or sequence compatibility with all of my other mpcs but that would be a nice touch… Akai has historically done at least program compatibility forwards and backwards very well…
no plugins on this one, but maybe keygroups capability.
If M8, T.E. , woovebox, polyend, sonicware can do it… akai surely can
I just don’t see this happening. Maybe as some form of experiment/labs kind of idea, if inMusic is interested in taking some risks. The reason is because it goes completely against their business model. They’ve built a platform which they can use to significantly increase the total value of a customer by selling plugins. Building a new product that sits outside of that platform doesn’t just mean leaving all those incremental software sales on the table, it means having to maintain two platforms, two UX paradigms, etc. It just doesn’t make much business sense, especially now when their platform has been proven to be a success and they’ve just announced a deeper level of commitment to it in the form of MPC3.
Yes, Akai surely can… but they won’t.
I think a great feature (even in 2.0!) would be blow out pad ranges when you do track explode. Like select pads to export to tracks. I usually have multiple kicks, claps, hats, perc and want to keep them together. That way this process would be a bit more sane in the new workflow too.
Photo of the MPC MICRO leaked!!! 
I can’t reveal the source but I can confirm it’s legit and let me just say this: Octatrack users will be very happy…
I need me one of those rings 
“Eight plugins and nearly unlimited keygroups ought to be more tracks than any live set would ever need.” - Roger Linn, 1986
A quadrophonic knuckle sandwich!
They could make it with the intention of it just being a bare-bones MPC designed for mobility. The OS wouldn’t need to be different just stripped down. The targeted customers would know what their getting into but most of them would own a current MPC & just transfer the files over when needed. I think that could work.
Now how would they design it would interesting. Do shrink everything down or make it like a 404 but with a bigger screen to make up for less buttons or more buttons & a smaller non touch screen or…etc…
Again, developing a new user interface isn’t a trivial task. That alone makes it unlikely, then add to that the other factors I listed above and it’s not a compelling business opportunity. I’m thinking of this purely as a product person, not a musician. And I could obviously be wrong here.
well, actually they already did when they made the mpc app on ios, they outsourced the development, but even that could import mpc programs I think I’ll have to check to confirm that it’s been a while since I used it buuuuuuut.
I think they are big enough to make a hand held mpc and it not collapse the space time continuum 
also Akai loves to make user interfaces and they excel at them… I think they’ve made more than anybody in this regard they’re like the apple of beatmachines you just know there is going to be another one…
I wish that was true, but locking a single program per track is fully baked in, can’t see that there’s any possibility of an option to choose MPC behaviour instead. Most of the other things people have been talking about follow from this, but some aren’t as deep in the architecture so maybe there might be a bit more hope.
Been avoiding Ave McCree since that dumb Dilla video but watched the video upthread as well as well as skimming the longer one - clearly he’d been briefed that Akai’s market research was that new users were bouncing without ever figuring out how the interaction between tracks and programs works. Which to me sounds like picking up a guitar, never learning to play a single chord and then blaming the guitar.
But at the same time, I was just thinking that I don’t really blame Akai for trying to grab these kinds of users rather than keeping someone like me happy when I’ve bought precisely zero plugins and have no intention of ever doing so.
So this is related to that MPC Live Mini rumor? And Octatrack users will be happy? About the new device? Or because they can keep their beloved OT?
Retronyms. 
It was back in 2017-2018 right around the time when the new MPC platform was born.
Absolutely, my point wasn’t whether or not they could do it, but whether they would. I struggle to see a compelling business case for it given how established their platform and plugin ecosystem is today compared to only two years ago. So, we can definitely agree that it’s possible for them to do it, and even that they might do it. But then we can decide for ourselves how likely we think that will be. 
Again, I think a lappable, “Polyend Tracker+ / SP-404 MKII”-sized MPC that keeps the current touch screen and runs on the MPC3 platform is perfectly doable and probably even likely to happen at some point.
But a handheld, completely separate, de-coupled-from-plugin-platform and thumb-optimized MPC Micro… I just personally don’t think that will ever happen, even though it would be cool.
remember those days 
you know what the good book says, if any two shall agree in his name we shall get it crackalakin etc…
just you and I could make this sh*t happen right now 
I’m gonna keep the faith, it worked for the sample freeze per pad feature on the mpc, and it worked for the DT2, 
Out of nowhere, I’m lusting for an MPC Xse… HELP!
Tons of encoders with the Oled screens to see what you’re twisting, big screen will make the 3.0 arranger so much easier to use, the big pads front and center will beckon you to sample away, all those dedicated buttons to help out your flow… did that help?
Ha, yeah, it’s helping me spiral deeper into the “what should I sell” wormhole.
I’ve had and X before, and, when in the much hated step sequencer, you can use all 16 q-links to directly control the 16 steps in velocity mode which you can send directly to the CV outs, in turn creating a very hands on step sequencer with 5 volt read outs on the q-links.
Ah shit, I think I may have broke. I’m calling my sweetwater rep in the morning to see if he can talk me out of it, by not providing me with a discount. I really should go to the GAS thread, but I’m not interested in that ATM.
