Akai celebrated 35 years since the release of its seminal sampler, the MPC-60, with a brand new model that promises to be its “most powerful” production machine to date. The MPC X Special Edition is ...

Akai is bringing some notable features to the MPC series, which are among the most significant samplers in the music world. The updates could help the devices better compete with products from other ...

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: This week, Akai announced the MPC-2500. If you've listened ...

Akai’s original MPC revolutionized music forever by combining all of the tools a producer needs—a sampler, mixer, multi-track recorder and editor—in one device. The new ultra-portable iPad version of ...

The vast majority of producers making use of samples today do so in software. Replaying, processing and manipulating recorded sounds is so easy in modern DAWs that we take it for granted – but this ...

When people are buying a MPC machine/sampler they need to consider their budget constraints and basic needs on which this particular investment is based. MPC Drum Samples. MPC Drum Machine. People can ...

It might strip back a few MPC features, but it offers true portability in their place. Back in 1988, Roger Linn joined forces with Akai to produce the first MPC sampling drum machine. The MPC60 was ...

The concept: Each artist or combo makes a track with their MPC Sampler and brings it to The MPC Battle for a beat show down of the Wellington sound in The Matterhorn gardens. The MPC Battle 01 starts ...