Akai updates the MPC One and Key 37 with better processors, additional RAM and more storage.

Akai’s original MPC revolutionized music forever by combining all of the tools a producer needs—a sampler, mixer, multi-track recorder and editor—in one device. The new ultra-portable iPad version of ...

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 ...

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: This week, Akai announced the MPC-2500. If you've listened ...

Roland has just revealed the SPD-SX PRO Version 2.0, the latest update to its flagship sampling pad with numerous new features and added “power and flexibility”. The SPD-SX PRO Version 2.0 features ...

Carrying around a classic Akai MPC sampler to bang out some beats just got a whole lot easier. The Akai MPC Fly music production controller features a case, and corresponding MPC Fly iPad App, that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Akai just revealed specs and other details about the MPC Sample after teasing the gadget earlier this month. This is a portable ...

The impact of Akai's MPC series on hip-hop cannot be overstated. The first model — the MPC60 — hit the market in the late 80s, perfectly timed with hip-hop's culture of borrowing and reinventing ...

Rhett “Daily Bread” Whatley put on a masterful performance in Vail on Friday, using an MPC sampler to compose music live on the spot in front of a large crowd at the Ford Amphitheater in Vail. The ...