I've been rocking the Push 1 since near the launch date, and didn't really feel compelled by the Push 2 to upgrade. The Push 1 is so well designed and pleasure

I've been rocking the Push 1 since near the launch date, and didn't really feel compelled by the Push 2 to upgrade. The Push 1 is so well designed and pleasure to play with, it feels as much like an instrument as my guitar, and less like a tech object that can become obsolete. But looks like I'll be buying a Push 3. "Send your Live sets to Push to work without a computer, then back again." That's a killer feature for me. I bought an Akai Force about a year ago so that I could play my solo electronic stuff at open mics without needing to bring a laptop and audio interface as well as my Push 1. But after spending a good amount of time with it, the Force just doesn't feel as well thought out for live gigs as the Push. A lot of functions I want to perform live require 2 hands on the force (so I can't play notes with my right hand and manage the controller with my left), or require doing a long-press which effectively means a big latency on enabling the function. I need to watch some demo videos to make sure they haven't ditched any of the focus on live performance without pauses, but this looks like what I hoped the Force would be. Looks like they've already updated the online manual to include Push 3, will have to dig through that later, but some initial thoughts from the photos: I like some of the new button placement, undo is far away from anything, Double is no longer right next to Quantize. Solo and Mute being smaller might be an issue, it might not be. I wonder what the lock and square buttons do. New "Convert" button makes me think they've added a dedicated button for audio->MIDI conversion which seems great. Looks like there's a new metronome button? I like it, but I might just continue using a hidden track with a custom metronome loop. MPE and CV-capable output are also nice bonuses. The specs are a bit weak, but more than capable for a live set with several synthesizers and samplers. I bet you can swap out the SSD for a bigger one, I wonder if you could swap out the RAM or CPU as well, since you can purchase the non-standalone device and buy their upgrade kit to manually install the PC components.