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2. Akai MPC - Wikipedia

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   Akai MPC. The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards. MPCs combine sampling and sequencing functions, allowing users to record portions of sound, modify them and play them back as sequences. The first MPCs were designed by the American ...

3. Sampler (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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   An AKAI MPC2000 sampling sequencer (1997) A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings). Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, sound effects or longer portions of music. The mid-20th century saw the introduction of keyboard instruments that played sounds ...

4. Ableton Live - Wikipedia

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   Ableton Live, also known as Live or sometimes colloquially as "Ableton", is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering.

5. Akai S1000 - Wikipedia

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   Akai S1000. The Akai S1000 is a 16- bit, 44.1 kHz professional stereo digital sampler, released by Akai in 1988. The S1000 was among the first professional-quality 16-bit stereo samplers. [3] Its abilities to splice, crossfade, trim, and loop sound in 16-bit CD quality made it popular among producers in the late 80s through to the mid 90s.

6. Sampling (music) - Wikipedia

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   The term sampling was coined in the late 1970s by the creators of the Fairlight CMI, a synthesizer with the ability to record and playback short sounds. As technology improved, cheaper standalone samplers with more memory emerged, such as the E-mu Emulator, Akai S950 and Akai MPC. Sampling is a foundation of hip hop music, which emerged when ...

7. Akai MPK 88 - Wikipedia

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   Akai MPK 88. The AKAI MPK 88 (Music Production Keyboard) is a hammer-action, 88-key MIDI controller keyboard released by Akai in November 2009. [1] It is the only MIDI controller in the MPK series to feature hammer-weighted keys. It can be connected to a computer via a bus-powered USB port, or with traditional MIDI cables (in which case an ...