Jaytreaze wrote:@sp-user so is there any sp you’d consider getting out of curiosity? It’s like you hate all of them haha (or just not the 404 line)?
Believe it or not, I don't actually "hate" any of them. It's fair to say I like the whole SP and MC line (both past and present), and it's because I like them I get so bloody pissed off when they keep crippling them in the most mind-numbing ways possible. I mean, how on earth can a manufacturer think it's acceptable to put out a sampler without Pan and Pitch, and no way to load the samples you made on the bloody thing, back into specific pads?
It just blows my fucking mind!
And even the new MC-101 and MC-707, absolutely fantastic pieces of kit, but again they fucked it all up by equipping them with such small amounts of sampling RAM that it pretty much renders them useless for a lot of people. Memory is cheap as chips these days, there's no excuse for it. Even Gaz and Nick went to the effort of making a video to highlight this issue hoping that Roland would listen, and they are right, they are fantastic pieces of kit and would be perfect if it were not for the limited RAM.
So to me it all just feels very nasty and unnecessary, and THAT'S what I don't like about it, it's the nastiness of it all. I don't like being shat on by corporates and I don't like to see others being shat on by them, either. Roland are not alone in their behaviour, but the only reason I'm hitting out at Roland on here is because we're talking about Roland products here. I have equal disregard for KORG and even YAMAHA. They each appear to have their own policy on how to cripple their products.
It's as if the manufacturers must think that if they give us exactly what we want, then we won't buy the next product - but that's just not true. GAS will see to that for a start, and even if they had made the MKII perfect in every possible way, people would still eventually fancy a change, or at least add the next product to their collection of gear because the latest model has something the current model doesn't have.
There was a time when what I'm talking about here is exactly the way it used to work. These manufacturers would put everything they could into innovation, into making you want that product, into good ergonomics making you want to use it, and even the standardisaton of MIDI being a perfect example of these companies working together for the good of the consumer.
Today though, it's very different, today it's all about dishonesty and manipulation.
Anyway, I guess we'll know the score soon enough on whether they've implemented Pan and Pitch. It is very likely I will buy it and be very happy with it if they have, but if they haven't then there really is no point in it and I can't see me buying one. It's a sampler FFS, it should have Pan and Pitch and a way to load its own samples back into its own pads!
