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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.
Pages in category "Akai synthesizers" ... Akai MPC; Akai S900; Akai SG01v; Akai X7000; Akai AX60; Akai AX80; E. Electronic wind instrument; S. Akai S1000; Akai S3000XL
It is also the first time a sampler with touch sensitive trigger pads was produced by AKAI, giving birth to the popular MPC series of sampler sequencers. The Akai S950 (1988) was an improved version of the S900, with a maximum sample frequency of 48 kHz and some of the editing features of the contemporary S1000. The Akai S1000 (1988) was ...
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.
Akai MPC60 (1988) The concept of the workstation evolved in the mid-1990s with the emergence of the groove machine concept that began in the mid-1980s – a keyless version of a workstation, still with a self-contained sound source and sequencer, mostly intended for dance music. Nowadays, these devices feature a sampler.
Roger Curtis Linn is an American designer of electronic musical instruments and equipment. [1] He is the designer of the LM-1, the first drum machine to use samples, and the MPC sampler, which had a major influence on the development of hip hop. [2]
Akai was founded by Masukichi Akai and his son, Saburo Akai (who died in 1973 [4]), as Akai Electric Company Ltd. (赤井電機株式会社, Akai Denki Kabushiki Gaisha), a Japanese manufacturer, in 1929. [4] [5] [6] Some sources, however, suggest the company was established in 1946. [note 1]
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