Akai iMPC Pro teaser

[Fade]

Apparently this is coming out very soon, around mid-Spring:

It's a new software MPC for the iPad (not the iPhone), and not for Android yet.

They haven't announced the specs yet but they're saying that if you like chopping and time-stretching, that this will be "right up your alley". They also said that it will have "64 tracks of heavyweight music production".

Can't wait to see the specs on this thing!

 

[thedreampolice]

That's very cool, the ipad is sure becoming a music production powerhouse

 

[Fade]

That's very cool, the ipad is sure becoming a music production powerhouse

It sure is. At first when I saw certain music programs being made for the iPad, I didn't take it serious, but now it looks dope.

 

[thedreampolice]

Yea same for me, I never I thought I would do synth programming on a tablet but sure enough propellerheads puts out Thor on ios, I think the android vs ios phone race is pretty divided as you can make a strong case either way, and personally even though I'm a hard core apple guy I think android is going to be the dominate platform of the future. That being said the ipad is still the tablet ruler, android still is lacking the amazing tablet apps ios has so it will dominate for a while yet. Pretty cool time to be alive I must say.

 

[Fade]

Ahhhh of course because of Reason, LOL. But ya you're right though, the tablet is very strong in the music production realm.

 

[thedreampolice]

Ha ha sure, but Moog and Waldorf are both making amazing synths for ios as well it's very cool!

 

[2GooD Productions]

I have to admit I dont take pads for music production very seriously. Not yet anyway.

 

[thedreampolice]

Man, i know how you feel. But there are so many great ios apps its crazy check out Cubasis for example WTF its amazing what just a tablet can do these days, I would kill for this type of stuff back in the day



and Moog's amazing Animoog



Waldorfs synth



and of course I have to plug propellerheads Thor synth on ipad



Even Figure on ios is very powerful



Not to mention Imaschine

We live in pretty amazing times!

 

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Video preview just came out:

 

[thedreampolice]

Cue fake dancing! But other than that this looks pretty cool!

 

[Fade]

Cue fake dancing! But other than that this looks pretty cool!

Ya I wish they would make videos with Hip Hop in mind. Too many music production videos are all BOOM-TS-BOOM-TS-BLEEP-BOOP-TS

 

[thedreampolice]

we say

boots and cats and boots and cats...

it kinda ruins lots of songs when all you hear is boots and cats and boots and cats...

 

[wrightboy]

ios is the platform to use for music production. they have the apps on lock. i'm an android guy, but do have an ipad that i use occasionally. the only place the ipad has android tablets beat is 1 - battery life, 2- keyboard, and 3 - music production apps

 

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Timeline Editor demonstration:

 

[Greg Savage]

Ok, I'd invest in this.. TAKE MY MONEY!

 

[GratuiTous]

It doesn't feel like

BOOM-TS-BOOM-TS-BLEEP-BOOP-TS

kind of music suites AKAI lol

As you said @Fade - Where's the hip-hop!?

I guess market where the money is