New Species of Production Workstation The Akai MPC Key 61 represents a bold evolutionary step in music production technology, seamlessly merging the beloved MPC workflow with a fully-featured keyboard workstation. This isn't simply an MPC with keys bolted...
In 1985 at the music fair in Milan Prophet 2000 was introduced - the first sampler made by SCI. Compared to its predecessors (E-mu Emulator and Ensoniq Mirage), the synthesizer got the sample rate almost twice bigger (12 bits versus 8) and offered quite...
The Ensoniq ASR-10 is a digital sampling keyboard workstation released by Ensoniq in 1991. It was the first of its kind to offer a built-in hard drive and a 16-bit sampling engine. The ASR-10 also featured an onboard sequencer, effects, and a variety of...
The Akai Professional MPC Key 37 represents the culmination of years of development in the groovebox and beatmaking space—a compact powerhouse that strikes an impressive balance between functionality, portability, and price. As a smaller sibling to the...