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The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards. MPCs combine sampling and sequencing functions, allowing users to record portions of sound, modify them and play them back as sequences.
The AKAI MPK 88 (Music Production Keyboard) is a hammer-action, 88-key MIDI controller keyboard released by Akai in November 2009. [1] It is the only MIDI controller in the MPK series to feature hammer-weighted keys.
The new company was named "Akai Professional Musical Instrument Corporation". [2] Akai Professional M.I. was established the same year, but it filed for bankruptcy in 2005. [10] In 2004, following a US distribution deal, the Akai Professional Musical Instrument division was acquired by Jack O'Donnell, owner of Numark Industries and Alesis.
inMusic Brands, Inc. is an American enterprise that is the parent company for a family of brands of varying audio products used in the DJ, music production, live sound, musical instrument, pro audio, software, stage lighting, and consumer electronics industries.
This electronic keyboard is a 61 key, 6-voice bitimbral polyphonic, analogue synthesizer.Its keys are unweighted and not velocity-sensitive. Its features include bitimbral splitting of the keyboard, Unison mode, a variable arpeggiator with a "Hold" function for latching the arpeggiator, multi-mode BBD chorus effect, and voice input for several of Akai's then-contemporary samplers such as the ...
The Akai S1000 is a 16-bit, 44.1 kHz professional stereo digital sampler, released by Akai in 1988. The S1000 was among the first professional-quality 16-bit stereo samplers. [ 3 ] Its abilities to splice, crossfade, trim, and loop sound in 16-bit CD quality made it popular among producers in the late 80s through to the mid 90s.
The Akai X7000 is a 61 key sampling keyboard from Akai. It was released in 1986 and one of the first major samplers released by Akai. [ 4 ] It was a 12 bit sampler [ 5 ] with 6 voices of polyphony, and included functions such as sample tuning, truncating, reversing and looping.
The AX80 is a polyphonic analogue keyboard synthesizer manufactured by Akai Professional in 1984. [2] It was Akai's first venture into the professional electronic musical instrument market. The AX80 used digitally controlled oscillators (DCO) [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and filter circuitry based on the Curtis Electronics CEM 3372 integrated circuit .