Quick vid that covers some of the possible ways the APC can be customized. In the 2nd part of the vid, I'm using Bome's MIDI Translator Pro to add the additional functions.
The MPC series set the standard for beat production. What would it take to make the ultimate MPC? Dozens of engineers, 20 years of experience and a new synth and drum sampling engine unlike any MPC ever. Introducing the MPC5000; the new standard for music production.
One good item deserves another, and we get it in the Akai APC40, a new controller for Ableton Live. We get a detailed walkthrough at Winter NAMM 09 of all the colorful usefulness of this new gadget, and it looks good.
The Akai MPK49 controller keyboard makes things easy -- as some would say, a little too easy. It's a keyboard controller with 49 keys that won't break when you touch them like other types of keyboard keys, 12 pads and enough options to where you could probably record something that sounds passable...
Finger pantomime? Five amps? Has Owen O'Malley gone mental? Probably. Owen uses his experience as a high school cheerleader to stack five amps in pyramid fashion and connect them all to the Akai E2 Head Rush for some seriously complex delay effects. This rig would be highly impractical to tote...
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