Are you a sample based musician? That what it was designed around. Perfect for hipho.
The OS does feel out of date, this current version of MPC OS came out when iPhone 6 was out, and there has long been talk of an MPC 3.0 upgrade coming soon. So it's hard to judge it entirely given its age.
A huge part of it is that many serious professional musicians use this as a daily driver for production and they are VERY set on workflow patterns dating to the 90s. So reorganizing stuff would come with big customer pushback.
Learning the MPC workflow and developing our own templates+flows is really critical to understanding it. Your experience with it is seemingly quite shallow but a bit understandable.
> Main should really be called "editor" and "menu" should be called "main."
Not really, Main is the mainscreen like your primary app view. Menu is like the start menu or a sidebar in a webapp.
Editor would be confusing because there's the midi screen. And you dont edit anything besides track names.
> No page has both save and load on it. Save is actually a disk so it's not clear if it saves or loads. "Load" is actually labelled "browser."
"Browser" is basically "sample browser", which was it's primary purpose. Then there's shortcuts you use for your projects directory. Or you load projects screen on boot prompt screen.
Otherwise agreed, File browser is probably the thing that could most be modernized. No support for renaming or deleting files either.
> The hierarchy of "tracks," sequences, and programs is tricky to remember.
Maybe but it's very logical when you learn it and works well.
> Randomly an annoying modal "save progress window" blocks my flow.
Because you put autosave on, which is optional and I dont recommend it for this reason. SOC is old af and slow. Just use proper backup protocols.
> And the main/menu/record buttons are so big and need so much force it's hard to get the timing right.
a lot of these critiques are quite bizarre I have to say... they are normal soft buttons on Live 2 (and shallower plastic ones on One)? Not hard push but at the same time I'd rather not hit rec and overwrite stuff accidentally either.