08/11/2010

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# Lowest Price Akai MPK 49 Controller Keyboard in Best Price for sale. Fast & Free Shipping. <br/> Akai MPK 49 Controller Keyboard<br/> What a freakin great piece of hardware!<br/> First let me say-<br/> I&#39;m coming from a MPC 1000, apparently the MPC1000 and the MPK midi controlers have &quot;terrible, wack, horrible....&quot; pads that are too hard and not as sensitive as the other MPC&#39;s.<br/> I think it&#39;s a bunch of B.S.<br/> Yeah I&#39;ve used the MPC 2000XL and MPC 3000, thinking back are their pads slightly softer? Yes. Are the pads magically going to make me program fresher drum lines? NOOOOOOO! Honestly I think underground producers will use any excuse to why their beats are wack. Look at the other great Hip Hop Hardware that don&#39;t even have &quot;traditional&quot; pads like the ASR-1O, ASR-X and the SP 1200, Did their hard plastic or non-existing pads stop great beats to be bang out of the units? Nooooo!<br/> <br/> Back to the MPK.<br/> I love having a all-in-one unit sitting right in front of me ready for action. I use this controller with Logic 8. You basically map out your drums to the piano keys (in Logic using the esx sample editor), from their you can map out the pads to certain keys(kicks on the right, snares on the left). Since the MPK is not an MPC you will NOT get the heart and soul of the MPC which is the quantization, this is OKAY, I repeat this is OKAY! The MPK is meant to provide the feel of a MPC to use with your DAW. You can find MPC &quot;Grove Templates&quot; with a little searching on the net. These groove templates with provide the necessary swing to make a full transition to software based producing with a hardware &quot;feel&quot;.<br/> <br/> I haven&#39;t programmed the sliders yet so I can&#39;t comment on them.<br/> <br/> In all this is a great device to transition long time MPC hardware users to step up their game and jump into software. You can have best of both worlds. But don&#39;t take my word for it, go down to your local music shop and take it for a test spin, compare the pad sensitivity to the MPC 2500 or 2000xl<br/> <br/>