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REVIEWS

Review: AKAI XR20

Remix reviews Akai XR-20 hip-hop drum machine. The XR-20 includes more than 700 sounds specifically designed for hip-hop and urban music and lets you sequence three tracks of drums and synth into musical compositions. ...

Review: Akai Professional MPK49

Introducing the latest superpower music production tool from Akai, the MPK49. With all of the latest heavyweight features combined in a USB/MIDI controller...

AKAI MPC500 Music Production Center

Remix reviews the Akai MPC500 sampling, sequencing drum machine. This review includes hardware specifications, lists and descriptions of features and company contact information....

AKAI MPC2500 Music Production Center

After close to 20 years on the market, you'd think Akai would have run out of ideas on how to retool its MPC line of pad-based sampling sequencers. Not...

AKAI MPC1000

Akai's original MPC60 music production station was the size of a small guitar amp and equally heavy. Trying to find space for it on your desktop amid...


NEW PRODUCT AND NEWS BLURBS

New Product: Akai XR20 Urban Beat Production Station

The Akai XR20 Beat Production Station is a drum machine with benefits....

MPD32 Pad Controller Arrives at Akai

Using a USB cable to connect to PC or Mac, the MPD32 is Akai Professional's new flagship pad controller for musicians and DJs, allowing hardware control of music programs such as Reason, Ableton Live and GarageBand. ...

NEW SOUND LIBRARIES FROM MPCSOUNDS.COM

The Akai MPC samplers, the reigning kings of hip-hop drum machines, now have a massive new product line of sound libraries available via a newly expanded...

STUDIO

AKAI MPC1000 MUSIC PRODUCTION CENTER In 1988, Akai Professional introduced the now-legendary MPC60, which was followed by the venerable MPC2000, one of...

FEATURES

MPC FAQ

We Answer your questions about making music with Akai MPC sampling drum machines | Learn tips on using the Akai MPC samplers | How to make music with the Akai MPC sampling drum machines | How-to, MPC, sampling, drum machine...

Roger Linn

On the surface, there's not much that DJ Premier, the Human League, Peter Gabriel, Don Henley and Prince would seem to have in common, unless you consider...

Mr. MPC: Roger Linn

Read the Remix article in the special "25 Sure Things for 2007" feature on Roger Linn and his thoughts on the present and future of music equipment. Linn creates the Akai MPC and the first sampling drum machine, and think new musical instrument interfaces will be needed to take advantage of progressing technology....


SAMPLE CONTENT FOR THE MPC

Akai Picks Loopmasters for Samplepacks

Akai has teamed up with Loopmasters to provide a new range of exclusive Samplepacks for MPC users....

Urban Guitar Bites Adds Flavor to Akai

MPCsounds.com has just released volume 2 of its Urban Guitar Bites sample library for the Akai MPC500/1000/2000/2500/3000/4000...

POP IN THE LATEST VOCAL SAMPLES WITH THIS NEW COLLECTION

From the fine folks at GotchaNoddin.com comes its latest collection of vocal samples, this one highlighting the female vocal....


Avid Presents:
Remix Hotel Los Angeles
Dec. 4-6, 2008

Remix Hotel heads to SAE's L.A. campus for another weekend of music-production technology; industry panels; and appearances by Danja, DJ Babu, J-Rocc, Squeak E. Clean, Sid Roams, DJ Shortee and more. And RHLA 2008 adds a new programming component: video production. You won't want to miss it—register today!

REMIX RESOURCES

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