Akai Professional MPX8 | Portable Sample Pad Controller With 8 Performance-Ready Pads & On-Board SD Card Slot
MPX8 is an advanced sampler / player with eight backlit velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads. Combining an ultra-portable footprint with convenient USB power, musicians, producers and performers can trigger sound samples stored on standard SD cards using the best pads in the business. Insert the SD card, assign its contents to any of the MPX8’s pads, and you’re ready to perform. For unrestricted production capability MPX8 features MIDI over USB and on-board MIDI inputs and outputs – perfect for controlling DAWs, virtual instruments, drum machines and more. Plus, with on-board processors for tuning and reverb, take command of your samples, add some dynamic flair to your performance and make your samples your own. At home, in the studio, as part of a producer’s rig, or on stage as a solution for triggering critical sounds, MPX8 is a compact sampling powerhouse.
Product Features
- Load and playback virtually any mono or stereo sample via standard SD or SDHC card
- Eight backlit velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, ideal for triggering drum sounds, melodies, basslines and more.
- Control everything from music software on your laptop to outboard MIDI gear using MPX8’s onboard USB MIDI plus standard MIDI inputs and outputs
- Edit your samples and make them your own using MPX8’s sample kit editor (PC & MAC) featuring tuning and reverb controls; save sample sets for instant easy recall
- (2) Balanced 1/4-inch outputs (6.35mm) and 1/8-inch headphone output (3.5mm) connects MPX8 to virtually all studio and live equipment
- Includes a FREE professional Loop Library download from Akai Pro, plus a large library of standard samples built in.
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Fun little device that does what it says (no more, no less) I was incredibly fortunate to be able to try out this product at no charge.This is a fun little sample pad device. It really doesn’t do more or less than I expected; namely, it can record samples and play them back on the assigned pads. The sound recording is just “ok”; I would expect most people to put sample WAV files on an SD card, pop in the card, and then play the samples.There are numerous settings (pan / reverb / etc) that can be assigned to each sample…
Works, and sounds decent – Horrible inteface Horrible interface.. use it for sound samples between songs in my bandWAVE files only, so it limited to very short samples. and each kit (8pads) takes 30 to 60 seconds to load the huge wave files. so scrolling from one kit to the next is a pain.. if you go from kit 2 to kit 5 and dont get lucky and land on 5, it has to load the whole kit before you can try again.. VERY SLOW – You have to use MONO samples to make the files small enough – REALLY only get 30 seconds total play time per…
Great basic drum sampler for the price Great basic MIDI controller and sampler for home studio and live applications. I use mine at home for basic beat production/finger drumming, for which it works great. The pad sensitivity is a bit hard to get used to, but nothing ridiculous. The drummer in my band uses it on stage, with a drum pad MIDI controller triggering samples on the Akai. It works great for this as well, and allowed us to add samples and electronic drum sounds to our live set without adding a laptop or more expensive drum…