I think computers have advanced us so much they no one realizes that hardware is still a thing. Imaging the landfills in 20 years full of MPC controller gear. I mean dam, do we need another keyboard controller and pad controller. They have made so many controller, you would think they would pause for a second.

Those things are filling up the used section of Guitar Center to the point you have to scroll a bunch to actually find what you were searching for “MPC”. And for more about the MPC, be sure to check out our 'Brief History of the Akai MPC.Ya, did the renaissance do so bad they they thought “hey, lets make another one”. So let's take a chronological look through all the MPC releases over the last three decades.

Unbeknownst to Akai at the time, the MPC would be one of the critical tools used by producers and DJs that helped define electronically produced music like hip-hop, house, and drum-and-bass. And thus, the Music Production Center was born, better known as the MPC. Linn brought that same idea over to Akai to be integrated into their collaborative design.Ĭombining the expertise of Linn with the engineers at Akai, together, they sought to make a standalone piece of music production equipment capable of capturing and replicating musical instruments. Linn had just designed the LinnDrum Midistudio, which featured 16 velocity-sensitive soft rubber pads made to replicate authentic instrument expression. It all started in 1988 when Akai contracted Roger Linn to help design an all-in-one music production center.

How did the beatmaking favorite progress over the last three decades?

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