Availing a computer-based production studio gives you access to a literally infinite number of virtual instruments. From sampled strings to modeled analog synthesizers to tweaked, studio-recorded drum kits, a universe of voices and timbres is at your fingers tips, and all can be controlled with a MIDI-over-USB controller keyboard. Only problem is, most controller keyboards feel less like keyboards and more like controllers. Not the Akai MPK49. Akai understands how critical it is for electronic instruments to have the same feel and expressiveness of their acoustic forefathers. They've applied their decades of electronic music knowledge to the MPK series, and the result's a USB controller that feels more like an instrument than any that have come before it.
Beat creation, MIDI sequencing, and live performance control are all possible with Akai's MPK49 USB/ MIDI controller. Featuring a swish black design, this 49-key, semi-weighted keyboard with after touch includes 12 MPC-style drum pads with 4 pad banks each for has a grand total of 48 total pads. The 49, full sized keys are some examples of the best you can get on any USB controller, even those costing hundreds more. Semi-weighted, with pressure-sensitivity and after-touch, they grant intimate, tactile control of otherwise antiseptic virtual instruments. Keys that feel this good are sure to inspire better performances, as well as make you would like to spend more time making music. Solid, reactive pitch and mod wheels add to the Akai MPK49's expressive capabilities, as do assignable inputs for expression and sustain pedals. MIDI in/out jacks permits control of hardware synths and modules as well. Hardware and software instruments alike will benefit from the advanced arpeggiator built right into the MPK, a multi-phrase, advanced, and programmable arpeggiator tempo-sync-able to DAW projects or external MIDI gear.
Supporting MIDI Machine Control protocol, the Akai MPK49 may be employed to trigger more than notes in your DAW. A gigantic 76 assignable rotary knobs, sliders, and buttons grant you hardware access to just about any control parameter in any digital audio workstation. A dedicated transport section turns the keyboard into the nerve center of your complete studio setup. 8 sliders, buttons and rotary encoders are organized like a mixer for intuitive control over channel level, panning and arming, should you select. Alternately, use them to govern assorted functions and effect parameters in plug-ins and virtual or rack-mount synthesizers. A massive, backlit LCD screen obviously displays MIDI control presets and makes it easy to edit your own layouts too.
Other keyboard controllers could have "trigger pads" that copy the classic MPC's, but only the Akai MPK49 has the real deal. Twelve genuine MPC pads, velocity- and pressure-sensitive, sit at the very top middle of the MPK. They're joined by familiar MPC functions like "full level," "12 level" and "note repeat" modes. A tap tempo control can be employed to regulate both the note repeat and arpeggio functions in real time, and classic Akai "swing" can be applied too. If you have ever programed on an MPC before, you will be right at home, and if you have not, you will soon understand why the MPC has been held in such high regard for so long.
If you are looking to get more musical with your computer audio software, don't accept a USB controller that's going to get in between you and your music. Get your hands on an Akai MPK49, and rediscover the excitement, keenness and fun that your music's been missing.
Beat creation, MIDI sequencing, and live performance control are all possible with Akai's MPK49 USB/ MIDI controller. Featuring a swish black design, this 49-key, semi-weighted keyboard with after touch includes 12 MPC-style drum pads with 4 pad banks each for has a grand total of 48 total pads. The 49, full sized keys are some examples of the best you can get on any USB controller, even those costing hundreds more. Semi-weighted, with pressure-sensitivity and after-touch, they grant intimate, tactile control of otherwise antiseptic virtual instruments. Keys that feel this good are sure to inspire better performances, as well as make you would like to spend more time making music. Solid, reactive pitch and mod wheels add to the Akai MPK49's expressive capabilities, as do assignable inputs for expression and sustain pedals. MIDI in/out jacks permits control of hardware synths and modules as well. Hardware and software instruments alike will benefit from the advanced arpeggiator built right into the MPK, a multi-phrase, advanced, and programmable arpeggiator tempo-sync-able to DAW projects or external MIDI gear.
Supporting MIDI Machine Control protocol, the Akai MPK49 may be employed to trigger more than notes in your DAW. A gigantic 76 assignable rotary knobs, sliders, and buttons grant you hardware access to just about any control parameter in any digital audio workstation. A dedicated transport section turns the keyboard into the nerve center of your complete studio setup. 8 sliders, buttons and rotary encoders are organized like a mixer for intuitive control over channel level, panning and arming, should you select. Alternately, use them to govern assorted functions and effect parameters in plug-ins and virtual or rack-mount synthesizers. A massive, backlit LCD screen obviously displays MIDI control presets and makes it easy to edit your own layouts too.
Other keyboard controllers could have "trigger pads" that copy the classic MPC's, but only the Akai MPK49 has the real deal. Twelve genuine MPC pads, velocity- and pressure-sensitive, sit at the very top middle of the MPK. They're joined by familiar MPC functions like "full level," "12 level" and "note repeat" modes. A tap tempo control can be employed to regulate both the note repeat and arpeggio functions in real time, and classic Akai "swing" can be applied too. If you have ever programed on an MPC before, you will be right at home, and if you have not, you will soon understand why the MPC has been held in such high regard for so long.
If you are looking to get more musical with your computer audio software, don't accept a USB controller that's going to get in between you and your music. Get your hands on an Akai MPK49, and rediscover the excitement, keenness and fun that your music's been missing.
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