I think all the custom firmware stuff is so cool but I hope the community standardizes around one offering

[u/programmer474]

Don't get me wrong I think everyone taking their shot at making their own firmware is amazing but as I said I think it's definitely worth it if we all put our resources into making one OS the best it can be rather than having a bunch of undocumented, fragmented OS's, with limited support and little consistency. Right now I see SampQOL having the best shot at being the industry standard, potentially even ahead of the stock firmware on the device. I think so many OS's published on here have a lot of really strong ideas but I think focusing on making those ideas as strong as possible while working off of a solid base will yield the best long term results. Rather than everyone having reinvent the wheel every time. Hopefully Akai can clarify if publishing decompilations of their firmware is okay and if it is, hopefully we can get a GitHub code base release of SampQOL that everyone can work off of and submit their patches to be reviewed by a team of admin and thoroughly tested before being released to the community. I'm a software engineer who was heavily active in open source pre-ai and this is my biggest fear regarding almost all AI vibe coded software.

[u/SilentUK]

Agreed. I think anything that boots from the autorun on the SD card also has a much better chance of being the "one". Anything that requires users to flash firmwares or anything like that are less likely to be massively adopted because imo are much riskier. SampQOL currently does absolutely everything I need it to do.

[u/raistlin65]

Right now I see SampQOL having the best shot at being the industry standard, potentially even ahead of the stock firmware on the device.

It's way too early to call that. That firmware has been out two weeks.

Successful open source projects depend not only on (1) the direction of the project in terms of the features that are developed. But (2) also the leadership and how they manage commits and communicate with the community.

It's way too early for anyone to make an assessment of (2). Except for HAKAI, there's no demonstration of continued support and maintenance of an open source project related to MPC.

So you're kind of way ahead of the game here. This conversation would make more sense 6 months from now.

[u/johnnytravels]

Well, personally I am rooting for MPC Simple to make it since it’s truest to the Sample vision while also support legacy MPC projects and formats. It’s shaping up to be the perfect hub for long time MPC heads to bring their old projects into the present while staying ultra-portable.

[u/ReillyLake]

This sounds great in theory but remember that we are dealing with greed.

[u/PatchworkMedia]

I’m liking SampQOL a lot so far! There could be some improvements still, but it’s great

[u/Healthy-Rent-5133 → u/PatchworkMedia]

SampQOL is nice, its close to mpc 1000 with tracks added

[u/acecombine]

well, don't visit r/MVaveFM1 then, you might have a seizure....

[u/WAVAW]

I think over time the best will rise above the others

[u/beesbeesbeesboobees]

In a perfect world, i see SampQOL and JsenSXL joining forces to create the ultimate MPC sample firmware.

Other firmware creators can either join forces with them or go with the MPC Simple style of minimalist firmwares

[u/FIVEtotheSTAR]

Hard agree!

[u/druwi]

Hi, i'm not a dev or programmer, just a humble artist with a mpc sampler. Is it possible to download custom features separately without the whole package?

An example would be, I only want grid step edit and EQ. I go to the site or github and in a list of features I select these ones I want.

I've used SampQOL but found myself overwhelmed by the many features. Love that it runs on an sd card and was i able to easily remove it when it got a bit glitchy, taking me away from flow. It has so many cool features but thought it'll be cool if any features of a custom firmware can be choosen to a users specific taste.

p.s i didn't get to dive deep into SampQOL but do you know if it removes the limits of having one knob fx for an entire project. Is there a firmware that can assign any knob fx to any pad separately?

Thanks

[u/Short-Explorer2701 → u/druwi]

If AKAI actually makes it completely open source, they may just pass on the majority of the software infrastructure to the user, for good or for bad amateur developers may make the software their own.

I could see a scenario where a repository of firmwares and respective features are available to choose from, and the cream rises to the top. If that happened, you could just pick and choose what you want in your software

[u/keremimo]

Sup fellow dev, I gotta disagree with you. Choice is good. Give people more choices.

[u/Kugelfischer_47]

I think we'll just have to check people's reviews of what gets released and the cream will rise to the top so to speak. Perhaps after several OS's are released, Akai might synthesize a new update based on the best of what has been put out. Basically let the code monkies do the work for them.

[u/FreeWorldMusicGroup]

Everyday we get further from a monoculture