The name printed on the photos was the MPC Live. The back was also shown, revealing a healthy selection of audio ports (including turntable options), as well as an SD card slot and USB inputs (for attaching removable storage): The photos from the first FCC submission showed us what looked like an MPC Touch with a deeper body and ventilation slots on the sides of the chassis:
So, what have these FCC leaks told us about the forthcoming MPCs? The MPC Live – What We Know Two weeks later another MPC-related submission popped, however this time it looks like Akai and the FCC were a bit more careful, and most of the submission was redacted from public view. The first truly tangible evidence we had of the forthcoming MPCs were from documents Akai submitted to America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Now, those reports should have been hidden from public view but for a short while the FCC made them public, giving us some juicy details on a forthcoming MPC (all that is left of that original submission is here: ). In this article I try to piece everything together and give you a breakdown of everything we know (or think we know) so far. Well, 2016 has been and gone and MPC Software 2.0 did not appear, and neither did any new MPC – however with Winter NAMM 2017 just a couple of weeks away, it does seem that matters are reaching an inevitable boiling point thanks to a combination of third party leaks, customer guesswork and cryptic comments from various Akai sources. We first learnt of Akai’s plans for MPC Software 2.0 way back at Winter NAMM 2016 almost exactly a year ago, at which time we were told that 2.0 would be released in 2016, and that the MPC Touch ‘ was not the final MPC’.
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