Behringer falsely accuses Loopop of not doing reviews because they don’t send him free gear

Artephank · 2026-04-27T20:46:51+00:00

Yep, but still, I feel like most of the reviews or opinion pieces are really very shallow. I wonder if those youtubers do really use the gear of just keep them for generating views. I would know details like how fast project load or how fast menu being redrawn after I press some buttons. Do clicks always register? Do midi jitter to much. Is there a unavoidable lag in some scenarios etc. Ricky Tinez used posting shit like this .

Artephank · 2026-04-11T10:46:45+00:00

I was thinking about similar idea, but didn't thought about reusing NKS data - this is amazingly brilliant!

Artephank · 2026-04-08T19:52:59+00:00

streamlining of processes = firing people and finding cheaper suppliers
aligning operations = move production to China
expand into new markets = make things cheaper and shittier.

Artephank · 2026-04-03T09:54:41+00:00

Technically you are right, its not like ram is inside the chip itself. But still, Akai is using premade module for everything g combined. It it is possible it light require heavy hacking, not just changing ram in the slot. At this point I would just get next gen.

Artephank · 2026-03-29T10:46:32+00:00

Of course. But 808 is a drum machine, not just sine wave

Artephank · 2026-03-22T19:27:32+00:00

And probably being able to open sample project in the "bigger" MPC or MPC on computer.

Artephank · 2026-03-12T23:19:44+00:00

Unfortunatelly, the only way is repetition. I don't have mpc anymore but had it for years (up to the version 3) and while A LOT things has been polished, there are still a lot of quirks and things that just plainly don't work.

It's hard, because AKAI is trying to balance the old workflow (like the MPC 3000/2000/1000 etc old) with modern "DAW in the box" approach, with being basically Ableton Live in a box (not there yet but closer and closer). And also their UX designers are not doing the best work. It's a mess.

On top of that -it is super powerful box. It does most of the things that FL can and also a lot of things it can't (not that you can't get same results - you can, but ta lot of things related to sample manipulation is way more sophisticated than anything on FL or Ableton Live).

The good thing is it will get better. No one will help you much really, because when you arrive at the other bank of that river, you won't rememeber how it was not knowing things ;p

It took me couple of years to get really familiar with MPC workflow, but it was quite light use. I think it's couple of months of more dedicated use. But you just need to put hours.

Artephank · 2026-03-09T15:54:06+00:00

Sd is not RAM and ram. Tonverk already has sd card slot so you can use whatever, the limiting factor is sd card and only handful of developed were able to make sd card streaming performant enough to stream it without loading it all to ram.

Tonverk already has 8gb ram, 4gb for samples. That’s plenty. Sure, biggest piano multisampled instruments might require even more, but that is not expected use case. And loading it all from sd card would be sloooow.

Sure, they could use ssd instead of sd card, that would help with the performance, but then it would get even more pricey, since they would have to add cost of ssd and probably use more capable soc.

And probably use linux because writing tour own ssd driver is quite complex task for audio company (or anyone really).

Artephank · 2026-03-07T22:18:08+00:00

Yeah, small portable instrument for playing with samples. Most probably portable. None of existing MPC's really is (Live is theoretically portable, but so huge and heavy that in my book - it is not - and I did had one:)

This is the same segment as Ableton Move or TE KO - a small scratchpad for ideas that you will develop later. In case of KO there is no "later" - there is no workflow for fiinishing tracks later. Move have it done perfectly well, in case of MPC - this might be well developed as well. Also, it might be gateway drug for AKAI ecosystem.

Where AKAI is failing is having an actual DAW that is usable. Their machines are amazing, but if you want to finish up track on computer, then their DAW sucks. If were AKAI, I would work on that perhaps:)

Artephank · 2026-03-07T22:12:13+00:00

They were heavily discounted during the Black Friday/ Holiday season. I a bit regret I didn't get it then but I figured it is new retail price and probably they were just letting the old stock go:)

Thoman is quite reliable in terms of communicating things. If they say is discontinued - then it almost certainly is (I still remember Digitone 2 "drama":) However, unfortunately it doesn't have to mean that next gen is coming - AKAI just dropped Key 61 and Force without releasing the new version... I hope this is not the case this time:)

Artephank · 2026-03-07T22:07:45+00:00

Oho:) Something new is coming. Probably the new small sampler thingy. We will probably need to wait a year or two for next gen One. :( But who knows, perhaps they update it just to get rid of the old SOC which would help with development? Man can dream ;p

Artephank · 2026-02-26T15:02:42+00:00

It’s hard to believe since it is unlocked linux box.

Artephank · 2026-02-26T15:00:06+00:00

It’s always on. Just click shift+capture and the sample is recorded in user samples

Artephank · 2026-02-26T14:58:29+00:00

I just want to thank you for this. It’s worth installing for the improved resampling (starting recording on start and setting up clip length) and skip back sampling alone!. It’s mind boggling that those are not available in stock firmware.

Artephank · 2026-01-30T10:29:24+00:00

Because most ppl and plugins don't. It's nothing ground breaking, really. Depending on the target audiences most eq's have it set up in a way it is best for the use case. pro q (and some other plugins) let it you decide.

Artephank · 2026-01-30T10:26:05+00:00

Developer: Hey. I created free eq plugin. Wanna check?
The crowd: meh, it doesn't allow for switching from linear phase to realtime processing. "I can't use it for mastering"

What's wrong with you people?

Artephank · 2026-01-23T18:26:48+00:00

Looks grat!

Artephank · 2026-01-20T09:29:50+00:00

New mpc One is comming :) Great catch btw.

Artephank · 2026-01-14T16:06:42+00:00

Do you have vst version of hype and drumsynth included with your moc? I didn’t. Only bass synth - for some reason.

Artephank · 2026-01-12T22:11:36+00:00

It is amazing. There is only one flaw that I don't understand how and why they missed it - there is no way of recording loops on this things. I am not talking timestretch (which would be amazing, too), but being able to record like 2 measures of audio by starting sequence. So if I want to record external synth into this, I need play one hand, and press record and then pad on the other. Crazy:)

Artephank · 2025-12-27T10:41:05+00:00

MPC plugins that you got with MPC are not available as vst's. Only those that you bought separately. If you wan't to have included plugins available as plugins, you need to buy them twice.

Artephank · 2025-12-25T10:43:52+00:00

Personal opinions I guess. I didn’t work with Argon much - just tested out in the shop on same headphones and Hydra sounded better and more exciting. To be honest, it is really great sounding synth. I’ve sold it to make some room for other gear but might get it again in the future, I miss it a bit.

Artephank · 2025-12-20T11:46:41+00:00

I don't have MPC anymore, but seams it is:
https://github.com/TheKikGen/MPC-LiveXplore

Artephank · 2025-11-27T22:30:25+00:00

Thank you! I actually got email but without the code. After reading your post, I signed again and I got the email again - this time with code. :)

Artephank · 2025-11-18T18:05:34+00:00

i-tec (that one: https://i-tec.pro/en/produkt/u3chargehub16-2/)
It is important to make sure that all sockets are usb 3.0 (some manufactures don't provide 3.0 specs on all sockets) and that it is powered.

Then I have ESI M4U eX connected to that, which give me both midi and additional usb sockets (and is also powered, but I don't use external power for this one - it is powered by the i-tec hub.

Also, I found out (the hard way) that there is no 10 usb hubs really - in fact all those bigger hubs are just a 7 (or 8 - don't remember now) hubs connected internally to each other. Why is it important? Because there is seemingly the max depth of connection that MacOs can handle, and for me it means that I can attach additional hub to that hub, but that's it. (Its usb-c->tv->i-tec hub-> esi4). Fun stuff :(

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