Just watched a video by Dubspot on Naam 2012 at (the world music industry's fair event to display all their new goodies.) To be frank, the only products that seemed interesting were Moog's Minotaur, Teenage Engineering's Op-1, and Keith McMillen's QuNeo. Although I probably won't be buying any of them, the QuNeo was right up my alley with their 16 velocity, pressure and x/y-axis sensitive pads; I am a NI Maschine man myself so it is the standard by which I judge. While I don't think this will be the next MPC 2000XL, it does push the boundries of what 16 pads can do in a creative way.
The other products shown were Buchla's Analog Synthesizer and Akai's MPC Fly. While I didn't quiet understand the synthesizer, I was more focused on the disappointment from the MPC Fly and it's lack of trying to progress like the QuNeo did. It was an mpc on your iPad. Big deal. Sure it's light and portable but there weren't enough features to inspire me to get one. I always have high hopes for Akai because of their legacy in the music industry, but the MPC keeps falling short for me. Needless to say, I won't be switch from my Maschine anytime soon.
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