61-key and 76-key models are available but their range is slightly more limited than full-sized keyboards.

Not only are they musical instruments they’re compact workstations capable of performing an entire repertoire of digital music tasks.Ī standard keyboard is designed with 88 keys. While acoustic pianos remain popular their digital counterparts have become some of the most widely-used instrument in today's high-tech music community. The update will be available for the MPC X, MPC One and MPC Live from the 14th May.Traditionally tickling the ivories meant sitting on a piano bench and playing a large instrument with 88 keys. They’ve also added that most favourite of features “ Retrospective Record” where you can hit Shift-Record and everything you were previously fiddling with when not recording is instantly remembered.Īkai has created a detailed video on all the new features which you’ll find below. There’s also a Chord mode where you can fire individual chords with just one pad. Other updates include the ability to send MIDI from one track to another effectively controlling multiple devices from a single track. The MPC can also route the devices between each other so you can use a controller keyboard to reach a different sound module via the MPC. It’s also great for simply syncing up other drum machines and sequencers to a single place. The idea is that you can use the sequencing and controlling power of the MPC engine to run everything else so you’re no longer having to drop between workflows to access other parts of your studio.

Add a USB hub and you can expand that up to 32 devices. They all have USB inputs on the back and with the new update they can understand any class-compliant keyboard, synth or device that gets plugged into it. I mean what are they holding back for version 3? This update is for the MPC X, MPC One and MPC Live. It’s the sort of thing that deserves an entire whole number increment.

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