If you are looking for a new do-it-all workstation (or production synthesizer keyboard., as they call it) for your studio, and you have a couple of grand (or so) to spend, Akai has something new for you – the MPC Key 61. MPC has been a mainstay of contemporary production…
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Akai Adds More Features and Plugins To The Whole Standalone MPC Line
This week standalone MPC hardware users have been offered another exciting update, with new tools and enhancements for better productions with a more creative and organized workflow. Let’s see what the 2.11 update brings to the table… A New Browser The new Sounds Mode is a vibrant multi-faceted browser that…
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Huge MPC 2.10 Update With Vocal Tuner and 14 New Plugins
A few days ago Akai unveiled the MPC 2.10 update with 14 new plugins and the first-ever vocal tuner for standalone devices for MPC One, MPC Live II, MPC X and MPC Desktop Software. Standalone Vocal Plugin Power MPC 2.10 starts with the new AIR Vocal Suite. For the first…
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Akai Adds DrumSynth to The MPC and Force
It’s not even Christmas yet, but Akai has a nice gift for MPC (One, Live, X) and Force users. The company has just added DrumSynth to their MPC and FORCE lines of music production tools with MPC 2.9 and FORCE 3.0.6 firmware updates. DrumSynth joins the existing virtual instruments already…
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AKAI MPC One Is The Small, Standalone MPC We’ve Wanted Since 2006
At NAMM, AKAI stole the (beatmaker) show with its new, compact and standalone MPC One. This younger sibling of the MPC X and MPC Live inherits the software and hardware architecture of the most recent AKAI MPC units, with a much smaller footprint. It took 14 years (in 2006 AKAI…
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Akai Announce Splice Support For Force, MPC Live & MPC X
Akai has some great news for quality sample pack users: they just announced the immediate availability of Splice integration in their standalone machines (the recently released Force, and the ‘modern beatmaker classics’ MPC Live and MPC X); a pivotal series of updates that offer users immediate wi-fi access to their…