Name: Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad Controller
Brand: Akai
SKU: AKMPX8
Price: 109.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

Akai MPX8

Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad Controller

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Akai MPX8 

Explore the Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad Controller. Compact, powerful, and perfect for on-the-go sound design. Shop now and unleash your creativity!

The Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad Controller features eight backlit velocity and pressure sensitive MPC pads. Its onboard SD Card slot allows users to load virtually any sample and easily assign it. MPX8 also comes with a library of built-in samples, great for live performance or studio production. The bright backlit display and intuitive interface enable operation in any amount of light.The MPX8 features a 5-pin MIDI input and output as well as a USB port. Two balanced 1/4" outputs and a 1/8" headphone output allow connection to a mixer and convenient monitoring. MPX8 comes with a drag-and-drop software sample editor for both Mac and PC. Users can also save sample sets together as kits for easy recall and even tune and add reverb to samples. MPX8 is a convenient way to have one-touch access to a virtually unlimited number of sounds, shots, stabs and drops.

The Akai MPX8SD is a very useful sample player for live performance. I never was drawn to using it in the studio but if you wanted to load samples and record a performance live with the pads that might be cool. My use for the MPX8SD was playing back looping vocal snippets, playing them rhythmically in time with my sequencers and drum machine for my live set. I was streaming my sets on Twitch and got positive feedback explicitly for the use of the MPX8SD. Playback of samples is basic and I opted to set my pad triggering to the latching mode. This way I could hit a pad on the downbeat and it would sustain, USUALLY looping in time, until I hit the pad again. I say usually looping in time because occasionally the samples would be altered and the sample lengths would get wonky. This happened infrequently. The pads can also be set to gate or just trigger. So all bases are covered. At least once I triggered the samples from an external MIDI device and some of the successive MIDI notes were ignored. For my uses, I actually enjoyed this because it gave an uncertain element of probability to the sample playback, which I found very pleasing. For the money performance sample playback has never been easier.

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