Akai Professional MPC Live II – Battery Powered Drum Machine and Sampler With Built in Speakers, Beat Pads, Synth Engines and Touch Display

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Also, this leads to less sequencer data redundancy across multple sequences and less need for endless Copy Events dialogs and complex math to copy something from one part to another, which is a workflow killer on the MPC. MPC X, MPC X SE, MPC One, MPC One+, MPC Key 61, MPC Live and MPC Live II (also suitable for the MPC Touch running MPC 2. At that point, I’m thinking it starts to make more sense to just pay for the Suite license because with that I’d have all the synths I need (really, I’m not into the VST GAS at all and don’t plan to ever be). There's also support for any class-compliant audio interface, so you can record and mix tracks directly from your Akai MPC unit. Also other synthesizers, which have CV/Gate inputs, can be controlled by the MPC Live II in this way.

Complete with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, along with Splice and Ableton Live integration, the MPC Live II is Akai's most powerful portable music production center yet.

The Akai MPC Live II is a professional standalone sampling workstation with a 7 inch full color multi touch display and runs without computer connection. even if I wanna sit on the couch and be around my family and jam out I can and the speakers are surprisingly really good. The latter of these isn’t too big a hindrance as Akai’s own suite of effects and synths is comprehensive and covers most bases to a pretty high standard.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. For other views, though, the overlay obscures what's on the screen, and I ended up turning the feature off. Designed from the ground up, this dual tweeterwoofer system delivers impeccable clarity to keep your ideas flowing through the creative process. I continue to dream of a world where there is a completely seamless transition from sketching on a groovebox, where you can start a new embryo of a song with the perfect reverb tail, and then gradually transition to mixing and doing the final arrangement on the computer screen. This feature alone pushed the MPC software DAW out of the realm of beat production into the big leagues with other loop-based DAWs.The Push screen sucks (low res, some parameter names have to be shortened to things like PE R < V, standing for Pitch Envelope Rate modulated by Velocity…) Dialing in sounds is not very fun on the Push. The MPC range has been pivotal in the world of music production, and the Live II looks set to continue this trailblazing legacy. You can nominate MIDI inputs as Masters, which makes them behave like the MPC pads in that they will always play the currently focused track, regardless of its monitor state.