A year and half later it still has none of these things. It can host Live 12 Suites plugins and instruments, it can do basic editing of MIDI and audio Clips, it's a versatile and great sound module and MPE instrument, it can play back full Scenes of Clips etc. etc. Why is it still not capable of being a standalone workstation? I get that for more complex music you will want to use it in controller mode and work with Live Suite on a PC or Mac, but not every song needs to be complex. This thing is so close, but so far away from what companies like Akai are doing with their easily less powerful chips and mostly less interesting plugins.
I mean this is not as complex as people have made it out to be, a simple Scene arrange page could be implemented on Pushes smaller screen, its been a thing on MPCs and other sequencer sampler standalone workstations for a couple decades now. Time signatures and tempos per Scene allow one to make each Scene (or group of Scenes if one chooses to play them), into a backing track for a live performance.
This way Push 3 Standalone actually becomes a way to compose an entire song, play a live set, and actually be it's own entity. I'm glad it works well with Live on a computer, but I feal like NI and Ableton completely lost the point of standalone, it's not just to write a groove on your couch, then bring it over to the computer to make it a song, (like every freaking add for the thing...), it's to play live sets, compose without ever using the computer. Akai are the only company that are doing this right, but I'm also a big fan of Abletons instruments and FX. It's been a year and a half, why are these things missing from a mobile workstation with a replaceable motherboard, ADAT in/out, a solid D/A (guitar sounds great though it), and 64 pad MPE grid?
It's a professional piece of hardware, but the software is lacking. Just some basic composing tools, please.
