…huge miss on Akai's part.
The new UI is lovely, lot's of quality of life improvements with a much more focused and intuitive workflow.
All great except one major thing, the arranger mode is per sequence with no way to drop in "scenes" and experiment like in Maschine. I was expecting a more intuitive global arranger able to string together multiple sequences.
1:1 track workflow replacing programs is great, but without the ability to quickly experiment with composition/song structure Maschine still has a lead here.
I went ahead and canceled my MPC X SE backorder and will hang on to my MPC One to see where everything goes, but besides being much prettier, MPC 3.0 is still held back by rigid sequences and an archaic song mode.