In The Lab With Akai’s MPC5000

February 10th, 2009 | email this | digg it

As an innovator and pioneer in the music producing game, Akai’s latest drum machine, the MPC5000, which released on Oct 1, 2008, is catching much attention from a wide array of hip-hop producers!

Akai, a well-respected company that produces electronic musical instruments, is best know for their contribution to the music industry, their line of MPC drum machines. Akai constantly innovates to enable producers to sample, store, sequence and manipulate the sounds of their beats.

Known as “The Ultimate MPC,” the MPC5000 is already changing how producers get down! The MPC5000 features an 8-track streaming hard disc recorder, a 20-voice, 3-oscillartor virtual analog synthesizer with arpeggiator and a 64-voice drum/phrase sample with 64MB memory expandable up to 192MB. It is also the first MPC to include Random and Cycle sample playback in addition to velocity Zone Play.

And if that didn’t convince you…check out these videos of top producers DJ Muggs, Terrace Martin, Jelly Roll, Scoop DeVille, Play N Skillz, Thayod, Kanobby and DJ Quik get busy on the MPC5000 and display the ins and outs of the beat making process!