Category: Keyboards / Pads / Midi Description: Akai-style USB/MIDI controller delivers powerful tools for maximizing your musical ideas.
Beat creation, MIDI sequencing, and live performance control are all possible with Akai's MPK49 USB / MIDI controller. Featuring a sleek black design, this 49-key, semi-weighted keyboard with aftertouch comes with 12 MPC-style drum pads with four pad banks each for a total of 48 total pads.
The pads have swing parameters which can be applied to the MPC Note Repeat function and the MPK49 keyboard's own arpeggiator for instant creation of ear-catching riff effects. They also feature the MPC-style Full Level and 12 Level velocity function.
Included in the array of assignable controls are 8 full-sized, 360-degree rotation pots, 8 full-sized sliders, and 8 backlit switches. All of them come with three banks, giving you a total of 24 pots, 24 sliders, and 24 switches to play with. Amongst the other assignable inputs are an expression pedal, footswitch, pitch bend, and modulation wheel. The MPK49 midi keyboard controller also has Tap Tempo and time-division buttons allow for real-time control of Note Repeat and Arpeggio clock speeds.
The large, custom LCD display makes it easy to see what you're working with, whether in the dark atmosphere of a nightclub or in the comfy confines of the studio. Features: Akai MPK49 Keyboard USB MIDI Controller Specifications:
Dimensions: 29"L x 12"W x 4"H
Weight: 13 lbs.
Akai MPK49 Keyboard USB MIDI Controller Features:
8 full-sized, 360 degree rotation pots, each with 3 banks for 24 pots total
MPC-style note repeat and all new arpeggiator
8 full-sized sliders with 3 controller banks each for 24 sliders total
8 assignable backlit switches with 3 controller banks each for 24 switches total
MMC/MIDI Start-Stop transport buttons
Large, easy-to-read custom LCD display
Take total control of your MIDI performance with the Akai MPK49.
The features here are crazy way too many to do this product justice. MPC Users will already love the fact that it has the pads. Oh and lets not forget the coveted repeat button.. Drool nuggaz Drool!! lol..
Comes with presets so that this can run Propellerheads Reason, Cubase SX, or whatever else your dirty producer heart desires. The great thing is it comes with Ableton Akai Version so that you can be up and running fast.
Do you see the KEYS!!! now you have the best of best worlds, all I can say is it's about damn time. Akai never fails to deliver a solid product, and as always this one has most of the producers I know salivating like rabid horny mutts. You may wonder why I gave quality a 4, well there are a few syncing issues to work out to have the system act excatly like an MPC, but I'll put videos out in the forum to help buyers set it up easily. Top product as always from Akai at a great price Can't judge sound quality since this is a midi controller which means it's there to help to get away from using a mouse to click your way to great music. But the response time or latency is great.
The Talk
Real Talk: Real talk!! there is a bit of a setup curve to deal with, so I wall say this.. READ THE MANUAL!!!! I'll say it again for the reading impaired, READ THE MANUAL!!!!
If you do you'll learn everything you need to know what kind of power you have sitting on your recording desk. The Real: If you've been waiting for Akai to give you a keyboard and still maintaining the MPC feel then stop damn looking and buy this already.. What you're still here!!
