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’.
