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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to make it clear: the Plugins are all included with the MPC Key 61.   They are an added cost for other MPC users.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tony</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:ibisum@gmail.com">Jay Vaughan</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, June 26, 2022 8:42 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">Music-bar</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Akai MPC Key 61 - thoughts?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> From what I gather from the reviews and teardowns, it's a pretty slick piece of gear. The one thing I noticed was that you're buying into a bespoke ecosystem, with bespoke plugins, and possibly limited hardware resources. On the other
 hand, that bespoke product is an MPC, and you don't want to do every single thing with a single piece of gear anyway.<br>
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Yeah - that’s a good point, it was one of the cons of our discussion this morning, that - while it seems powerful - a lot of the demos we looked at were with plugins that were an extra cost.<br>
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I wonder what they’re using for the plugin technology.  Seems like a no-brainer to be using something like JUCE, especially given its ARM support is pretty good .. (Building LMN3-DAW in the background as I  type..)<br>
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Nevertheless, the KEYS 61 has been ordered and is on its way.  Going to be interesting to review it.  I probably won’t have access to it much, might borrow it for a weekend or so, but yeah .. seems like its going to be a lot of fun.<br>
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j.<br>
—<br>
Jay Vaughan<br>
ibisum@gmail.com<br>
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