1500 bucks.... sucker born every minute
i see a bling casing with interchangable grill (lolwhut ...care...) with a dsp, little bit of software all wired to a built-in presonus card...(@ $120)
All the features are whatever, nothing revolutionary inthere except for a rechargable built in battery.
this thing belongs at the toy's r us or the sesame street gang posse studio hollllllaaaaah!!!
Goddamn, I wouldn't say all THAT.
But, 1500 is WAY too much for a machine like this. I don't even think it would have a chance at 1000. Maybe at 500-700. But, what does it have/do that an mpc 500 can't do? Plus, the direction of electronic music production and performance is going in the way of hardware/software integration. Which means it's come a bit too late. Also, if they came out with software already why continue with this overpriced grotesque hunk of metal and wire? Especially when, from what I hear, the software is extremely buggy, which means there should be quite a bit of focus on said software -- focus that they can't afford to borrow to the hardware.
Overrall I have a hard time taking a company called "Beat Kangs" with a sole product called "Beat Thang" with terminology like "Bang" "Bling" and "Blang" instead of regular terms we all understand like "Compressor" "Limiter/Maximizer" "Reverb" etc, seriously. That last bit is what gets to me the most actually; Seriously, "Bling" "Blang"? Sounds like a goddamn Dr. Seuss book. They're not being clever or even cute, they are hurting their own product by introducing a learning curve for EVERYBODY. If you have any experience with these tools you should be able to pick up any other tool and be able to run with it, because they all follow a standard! It's utterly ridiculous to do what they've done because it only offers confusion for experienced players and it stifles the inexperienced from learning.
