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Sorry I don't subscribe to the theory that disgruntled customers should 'put up or shut up', while the company that's taken their money ignores requests for support and has fun instead.
That attitude gets you nowhere - apart from giving them the green light to ignore you even more.
Yeah, I agree. As mum always says: Don't care was made to care. Don't care had a duck. I've never understood this but it seemed to be a more nuclear version of "Don't ask, don't get."
Tabletop is my poster child of 'if it was 20 years ago and I had nothing else but this I'd think it was the shit...', but still I load it and delete it with frustrating regularity.
Did I say "put up or shut up"? Did I address you directly? Did I imply that there's no room for criticism of this or any app? The answer to all these questions is no, and I'll appreciate you refrain from implying things that aren't true into what I say.
There is such a middle ground as giving critiques or an app or even better, constructive criticism, and a scorched-earth attitude towards something you haven't had the most positive experience with.
You said "This, some of the complaints here are melodramatic." - which ones? I don't see any exaggeration or drama, just exasperated customers who might be a little miffed to see the developers making 'fun' sales videos while long standing bugs aren't getting fixed.
Believe me I get it. Within a week of enthusiastically plunking down my virtual $s on iMPC I stripped the samples out of it and deleted it. After tiring of too much crunchy audio and save glitches in Tabletop, with what I thought were minimal tracks on my iPad 4, I had deleted Tabletop too. It wasn't till I got the air 2 that I tried it all again, and only inside the Tabletop "ecosystem". I like many of ecosystem apps, (though not to the exclusion of the open ended systems of MTS, BM2 with IAA an AB) and Tabletop is a fun one for me. It's got some 1st tier synths, and sounds good again.
There's no question that Tabletop can let you get your @supadom on and run up a bunch of sounds easily and quickly together....
@monzo When I say "here", I'm referring to more than this thread. You keep implying things...
But I'll play your game here, because I also meant this thread. Some examples from this thread:
"I'm not... What's Akai got to do with all of this? These people are blind running in a desert with i'MPC' "pro"... They'll never come up with realtime pitch shifting and time stretching (16 level tuning)" (Never? Who knows that?)
"And if this is really the case then it would be a huge opportunity lost to be able to implement the one holy grail slicing feature that still can't be found on anywhere else including MPC, Maschine or Ableton Live." (No one knows about future plans)
This one's you: "Good to see progress, but hopefully they will fix the 'under the hood' issues as well as trying to boost sales with flashy new features. We can always hope I guess." (You call those "flashy", these features will be useful to folks other than you and will be classified as more than just "flashy")
"This latest feature hype seems like more smoke and mirrors rather than anything substantial." (I read this as "I don't need this feature, so I'm going to imply that it's not useful for anyone")
You again: "Unlikely to happen since they haven't managed a bug fix since September last year, and seem more interested in adding flashy new features. A very neglected app." (imo this is melodramatic and expecting anything productive with a statement like this is silly)
That's just a few and this is boring. I stand by what I've said.
As a hardware MPC user for more than ten years I say this app is a huge disappointment, nothing more, nothing less.
A lot of developers show what's possible on the iPad, Retronyms somehow doesn't belong to them, IMHO.
Maybe they're constrained by their weird marketing "strategies", but I have the strong feeling they could do more and especially better.
I'm not implying anything, just trying to make sense of your comment. You agreed with the previous comment about posts in this thread, and referred to the posts 'here', so I assumed you were criticising the posts in this thread. Seems a fairly understandable assumption to make.
So you say you weren't referring to me personally, then go and do so, twice.
Really - haven't you got better things to do than this? Some people, including me are moaning about an app that's not working properly - it's hardly worth starting an arguement over.
I'm not going to rehash everything about this app, but there's a curve of disappointment that comes with expectation and (to date) lack of follow through. As my dear old Dad would always say: I only hit you so much cos I love you so much...
But in Tabletop, iMPC Pro still doesn't have an input patch slot for sampling a feed directly within Tabletop. I know you can go the copy/paste route to get Tabletop sounds in, but it's tedious and defeats what I see as a major purpose of the Tabletop environment. It also draws an unfavorable contrast with an Audiobus setup that would allow iMPC to sample a chain of instruments/effects in that environment.
What I do - without involving audiopaste tedium, is drag and drop the "recorder m2" on any source I want in Tabletop, including iMPC pro itself, but also any synth, module or the main, "mr O".
Record what is wanted and that file will then appear inside iMPC pro, under "My Sounds" - "iTunes File Transfer Bank" which you select for your pad and edit like any file.
What's cool about this - aside from being able to record weird stuff you do on iMPC pro itself, is you can drop the recorder on any other device with an output, including at any point in the fx/signal chain.
Being able to use the recorder on IMPC pro itself is far beyond the "re sample" function within iMPC pro, because you can be playing from the pro's main screen, using the tapestop, or 16 levels or whatever, and record that MPC-style performance fun, then edit and assign back to a pad within iMPC pro
(I think this works with any IAA module as well, allowing access to IAA synths and fx. And then theres a trick to play with Audioshare as an IAA source that allows you to connect Into the AB flow, but don't quote me, I'm going to try this at some point-)
If you ask me, this modular approach to sourcing into iMPC pro in-app is damn smart, extremely open-ended possibilities-wise, and way fun.
Except you quoted me first!!! You should be way more reflective before you start accusing others of starting arguments.
And I think many people, not just you, are moaning in a very melodramatic way. I have my theory of why, but that's not important. I made an observation and you've been trying to provoke more out of me ever since.
My personal experience with iMPC Pro has been far from ideal (a couple projects lost to crashing) but I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater either. I like quite a bit about the app: sample trimming, IAA effects, good stock sounds, somewhat fast workflow for a lot of the basic functionalities, for example. And to note, I am an 11-year deep MPC1000 user with JJOS 2XL, so I get that the app and hardware aren't the same. I personally don't see reason to make a big gripe over that, and I don't particularly care on elaborating why.
The tone of the complaints and whining about this app always feels overly vindictive, bitter, and melodramatic. I don't agree with @JohnnyGoodyear about level of expectation to delivery, otherwise certain other apps which tend to be defended on this board should be eviscerated.
the impc pro is the dopest drumsampler on iOS by a huge margin, and that's with it's caveats I don't know why people even argue about it. Objectively speaking it's feature set for a drumsampler are far superior to all of the other drum samplers. It's not an mpc and if you can't get over that then the whole argument is a non-starter. It's also not a daw and if you can't get over that then the whole argument is a non-starter, it's also not a linear sequencer, and if you can't get over that then the whole argument is a non-starter, but..... as pattern based/non linear midi sequencing drum samplers go it's the best on iOS and can even do some things that hardware based mpcs cannot even do. if you don't really care about sampling, chopping, mangling, and flipping samples then again it does not make sense to consider this app or debate about it. (unless that's your prerogative of course)
retronyms =whatever
audio interface issues as well as some other bugs =serious
but if you love sampling, sample editing, and mangling and you knew what the impc pro's feature set was it wouldn't matter if it had the letters mpc in it's name or not or who made it, it's like Samplr only has 6 tracks, no midi and you can't even pan the tracks but people including myself love it for what it is capable of, if you gave the impc pro that same objectivity pound for pound you would end your statement with 'amazing' imho. ....... show me another drumsampler on iOS or outside of iOS that has snapshot mixer and fx automation on a per sequence basis.....
show me an mpc that can do that
+1 @kobamato
-especially now that I'm finding what it can do inside Tabletop
And those are opinions. Yours. And mine. But I would always rather an app be the object of ire or otherwise, opinions after all, than the chat getting narked. And personal. Let's do what we're mostly good at and play mostly nice.
+1 @JohnnyGoodyear
especially now that I've heard what you can do with a Bukowski reading
Let's do what we're mostly good at and play mostly nice.
I also think that we all have opinions but we definitely need a healthy dose of objectivity when it comes to this subject, I'd love to read a comparison on slicing possibilities alone between egoist and the impc pro, especially at their price points.
I use iMPC Pro as a source of drum sounds with the individual pads triggered from a MIDI channel in Cubasis, iMPC Pro running in Cubasis as an IAA gen. This is still the tightest and most reliable IAA source of drum hits I have managed to get working with Cubasis. I realise that this leaves about 95% of iMPC Pro functionality completely un-used.
I haven't ever really used it as a compositional tool in its own right, so haven't encountered a lot of the problems described, but it is my main iOS drum machine used as detailed above.
Without quoting all of your purge @kobamoto I totally agree with what you're saying. Being a fan boy for a company is as bad as being company hater.
Stuff that spills blood on this forum is noise to me. Well, mostly.
That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it - but bear in mind the complaints and 'whining' on this thread concern a piece of software that's not working as it should, your comments are personal.
I loaded up iMaschine yesterday but it was rubbish in comparison, so I can definitely agree with a lot of what @kobamoto says about the iMPC Pro. But I always end up disappointed after using it because of the issues already mentioned - it doesn't live up to it's potential and after nearly a year the bugs are still there while the developers are showing us how much fun they're having.
It's great some are ok with this, we all react in our own way, some with more passion than others. But we're all entitled to express an opinion. All of the posters that are 'whining' about iMPC Pro's faults, can also be seen elsewhere on this forum being melodramatic about how good other apps are. Credit where credit's due, criticism where it's not.
Tested this again in standalone. Triggering notes live, even quickly in 16 levels mode works fine, but as soon as I enable Note Repeat it becomes a real hit and miss affair. This is one of my favourite features on the hardware Maschine but iMPC Pro doesn't seem to be able to cope with it, at least on my setup.
Standalone tested here too- the thing struggles with my samples as you describe when I do the "tuning" 16 levels. Velocity is cool. I can get tuning variations by using the slider for variations rather than 16 levels with the note repeat -
I think it's also good idea to forward these 'features' we find to the developers. I can't see any logs on this site as to how often they actually do check the threads here. It's also a good idea to make these issues 'heard' on YouTube, FB and Twitter as it's seen by everyone who follows them and as long as they are not 'fixed' it's bad PR for the App...
Agree with @samu any gripes should be taken up with dev through a recognised route. A lot of negativity has unusually spilled over to the forum which is a rare occurenece but would probably be better harnessed more constructively :-)
From what I've heard @kobamoto say previously, they've had quite a lot of requests already by the standard channels and have ignored them, still there's no harm in trying.
The negativity in this thread is no-one's fault but the developers that haven't fixed their product. So that's the thing - if you're going to start a thread showcasing promotional material about new features in an app (which was the initial post in this thread) and there are still issues with some of the old ones, be prepared for a bit of whinging as well as cries of 'brilliant - what fun - take my money!'
Personally I think a bit of healthy debate (as long as it doesn't get personal or nasty) is a good thing, as it'll provide balanced information for new customers searching the web before they buy. At least they'll know what they're getting, rather than making a purchase based on a bunch of promotional vids. We're all grown ups, I'm sure we can discuss the pros and cons in a civilized fashion.
There's a thread here in the the forum with literally hundreds of 'bugs' and 'feature requests' and all those have been passed on to the iMPC Pro developers at Retronyms. Maybe that's why this update is taking so long to surface, at least that's what I hope is the reason for the long delay
Your interpretation is incorrect. Smoke and mirrors is merely a metaphor for anything which is deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial. Retronyms has a history of deception and more specifically with regard to iMPC Pro. I won't rehash it again here, but it is documented in their responses in threads here, on comments in their Youtube videos and on their social media page. The new features which they have shown may in fact be useful to many, but they will be pretty meaningless if they do not address the other glaring bugs and omissions which have been previously discussed......IMHO.
Please Don't take this as being negative but I also contacted akai thinking that they would surely care that their flagship app has an core audio bug that makes it incompatible with most if not all audio interfaces and they basically gave me the pinky finger and told me there wasn't a problem and to take it up with retronyms, after which I told them there surely is a problem and asked if they could do something about it and they never responded again.
Retronyms also used to respond but does not anymore but I refuse to let some gummy bear, beard or no beard, jive talkin, not walkin like he talkin beat machine bug concoctin developer like that stop me from sampling til my hearts content with this app!
And that is all.