Back in March, Akai Professional released an iPad app that aims to emulate its classic MPC drum machine. Akai is perhaps best known for the MPC— a series of physical drum machine/midi ...

The king of hip-hop production tools, the Roger Linn-designed MPC60 mapped out the path still followed by manufacturers today When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Akai celebrated 35 years since the release of its seminal sampler, the MPC-60, with a brand new model that promises to be its “most powerful” production machine to date. The MPC X Special Edition is ...

If there’s one thing you can bet your house on, it is that any given year will produce a slew of hardware drum machines and samplers to accompany all those brand-new, shiny hardware synths. Over the ...