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Dedicated sequencer/DAW remote buttons: these can be set up to use MIDI, MMC, or both. As most other controllers in the MPK series, the MPK88 also has a built-in arpeggiator, with the 8 buttons acting as the time division for the beat. When this is active, user-programmed settings for the 8 buttons are ignored.
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 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.
Akai developed and refined the idea of the keyboard-less workstation with the Music Production Center series (1988–) of sampler workstations. The MPC breed of sampler freed the composer from the rigidity of step sequencing, which was a limitation of earlier groove machines.
Akai produced consumer video cassette recorders (VCRs) during the mid-1980s. The Akai VS-2 was the first VCR to feature an on-screen display, [9] originally named the Interactive Monitor System. By displaying information directly on the television screen, this innovation eliminated the need for the user to be physically near the VCR to program ...
The Akai S3000XL [3] is a sampler with 32 polyphonic voices, and 2 MB of built-in RAM.. For adding sounds to the sampler, the S3000XL features a 3.5" floppy drive that reads Akai-formatted floppies, and a SCSI port which allows for connection to an external storage device (such as a zip drive or external hard disk), a CD reader, or a computer for editing samples via the MESA editor.
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 ...
A computer MIDI interface's main function is to synchronize communications between the MIDI device and the computer. [94] Some computer sound cards include a standard MIDI connector, whereas others connect by any of various means that include the D-subminiature DA-15 game port, USB, FireWire, Ethernet or a proprietary