I had a force that froze once and crashed once. Massive is a massive beast and always drained my CPU%. The synths are a joke, in the GUI, parameter control and the resource usage. Which makes all the cool updates a pretty awesome freebie. Which tells you that the firmware updates aren’t done to make existing customers happy, they’re done to make the MPCs a more compelling product for people to purchase. So they have to sell a lot of MPCs to justify doing much development on firmware updates. That leaves Akai with $50 profit per MPC, at best. No idea if that’s accurate, but you’re assuming so, so let’s roll with it. Random Internet forum dudes priced the hardware components and estimated them to cost about $300. So that leaves Akai with about $350 out of the purchase price, again erring on the high side for Akai.
The average labor cost for products is around 25-30% of the retail price. So let’s say Akai gets to keep $600 of the sale, which is erring on the high side for Akai. That’s not money that Akai gets, it’s money GC gets. MPC Lives are going for $1000 at Guitar Center, and you have to assume that the retailer is taking a 40-50% cut. The $300 parts cost estimate doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
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