Employing a computer-based production studio gives you access to a literally infinite number of virtual instruments. From sampled strings to modeled analog synthesizers to enhanced, 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 important it is for electronic instruments to have the same feel and expressiveness of their acoustic forebears. They've applied their decades of electronic music expertise 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 smooth black design, this 49-key, semi-weighted keyboard with after touch incorporates 12 MPC-style drum pads with 4 pad banks each for a total of 48 total pads. The 49, full-sized keys are some of the absolute 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 over otherwise antiseptic virtual instruments. Keys that feel this good will surely provoke better performances, as well as make you want to spend a little more time making music. Solid, responsive pitch and mod wheels add to the Akai MPK49's lively features as do assignable inputs for expression and sustain pedals. MIDI in/out jacks enables control over hardware synths and modules too. Hardware and software instruments alike will get advantages 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 custom, the Akai MPK49 can be used to fire more than just notes in your DAW. A whopping 76 assignable rotary knobs, sliders, and buttons grant you hardware access to virtually any control parameter in any digital audio workstation. A dedicated transport section turns the keyboard into the nerve middle of your entire studio set up. Eight sliders, buttons and rotary encoders are prepared like a mixer for intuitive control of channel level, panning and arming, should you pick out. Alternately, use them to control varied functions and effect parameters in plug ins and virtual or rack-mount synthesizers. A big, backlit LCD screen clearly displays MIDI control presets and makes it simple to edit your own layouts as well.
Other keyboard controllers may have "trigger pads" that emulate the classic MPC's, but only the Akai MPK49 has the real thing. 12 real MPC pads, velocity- and pressure-sensitive, sit at the top center of the MPK. They are joined by familiar MPC functions like "full level," "12 level" and "note repeat" modes. A tap speed control may be employed to control both the note repeat and arpeggio functions in real time, and classic Akai "swing" can be applied as well. If you've ever programed on an MPC before, you'll be at home, and if you haven't, you'll soon see why the MPC has been held in such high esteem for so very long.
If you're wanting to get more musical with your personal computer audio software, don't just settle for a USB controller that is going to get between you and your music. Get your hands on an Akai MPK49, and rediscover the excitement, passion 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 smooth black design, this 49-key, semi-weighted keyboard with after touch incorporates 12 MPC-style drum pads with 4 pad banks each for a total of 48 total pads. The 49, full-sized keys are some of the absolute 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 over otherwise antiseptic virtual instruments. Keys that feel this good will surely provoke better performances, as well as make you want to spend a little more time making music. Solid, responsive pitch and mod wheels add to the Akai MPK49's lively features as do assignable inputs for expression and sustain pedals. MIDI in/out jacks enables control over hardware synths and modules too. Hardware and software instruments alike will get advantages 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 custom, the Akai MPK49 can be used to fire more than just notes in your DAW. A whopping 76 assignable rotary knobs, sliders, and buttons grant you hardware access to virtually any control parameter in any digital audio workstation. A dedicated transport section turns the keyboard into the nerve middle of your entire studio set up. Eight sliders, buttons and rotary encoders are prepared like a mixer for intuitive control of channel level, panning and arming, should you pick out. Alternately, use them to control varied functions and effect parameters in plug ins and virtual or rack-mount synthesizers. A big, backlit LCD screen clearly displays MIDI control presets and makes it simple to edit your own layouts as well.
Other keyboard controllers may have "trigger pads" that emulate the classic MPC's, but only the Akai MPK49 has the real thing. 12 real MPC pads, velocity- and pressure-sensitive, sit at the top center of the MPK. They are joined by familiar MPC functions like "full level," "12 level" and "note repeat" modes. A tap speed control may be employed to control both the note repeat and arpeggio functions in real time, and classic Akai "swing" can be applied as well. If you've ever programed on an MPC before, you'll be at home, and if you haven't, you'll soon see why the MPC has been held in such high esteem for so very long.
If you're wanting to get more musical with your personal computer audio software, don't just settle for a USB controller that is going to get between you and your music. Get your hands on an Akai MPK49, and rediscover the excitement, passion and fun that your music's been missing.
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