Akai MPK49 USB/MIDI Controller

Well, it's been a while since I last posted ! Trips away on business and an operation on my nose have taken up most of this year so far. So my apologies to my reader for not being around so much ! LOL

Anyway, this little beauty from Akai appeared at Frankfurt MusikMesse last month.

A 49 note, semi-weighted keyboard with MPC500 pads, a few MPC features like Note Repeat, Swing and Full/12 Levels plus an onboard arpeggiator, 8 sliders, 8 endless rotaries and 8 toggle switches (all of which can have 3 functions each, giving you 72 controllers in total), a big LCD, 30 built in templates for DAW's and softsynths, full MMC & MIDI transport controls and plenty of expression functions and connections gives you one mighty controller !

I'm hoping to get a pre-release model very soon, so expect a review once I do.

I have a feeling fellow blogger Shep will like this ;o)

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