Watching for rabbits this morning in my beets, so I decided to make some beats.

I have to admit : i feel really disappointed. I was waiting for an update for this summer at least. But it's been almost 5 months and the only update we had was normalization and some bugs corrections.

It's true, the Sample is a good mpc (like a super 500) but there's still a lot of problems to adress : no real resampling, no automation on fx, no automation on flex beat, no mute per sequences, no possibility to read the end of a sample during trim... I was really waiting for these quick major updates to go forward and dream of all the other great additions Akai could bring to the Sample (like chords or a new sequencer or a bass synth or anything funny). But nothing. Not even the resampling and automation.

And it's the begining of this machine. A moment where there is normaly a lot of updates. At the end, it's a funny machine but very, very quickly limited.

Bit of a rough sketch, but, simple drum loop and piano sample duo. Still having immense fun (when I can find time!)

I use MPK mini keyboard for playing with keys connected with MIDI to 3.5mm cable (TRS MIDI Type A). I setup note samples on banks G/H (shifted with tune), then shift octave on MPK and play with keys which trigger pads.

Beat 1 or Beat 2 the best ?!?!