A staple of every recording studio today, the Akai MPC began as a simple sampling groove box in the early 90s. The form factor of a few force sensitive pads assignable to different samples should ...

GREY: I don’t think everybody thought I should play – there was a hope I would use an Akai MPC sampler. Even though the drums sounded mechanical and industrial, they could all be played live.

Anthony Kilhoffer is the latest person to illustrate this point. Alongside Hit-Boy, Kanye West and Mike Dean, he produced ...

The iconic crate-digger talks us through serendipitous needle drops, moving on from the MPC and the making of his latest ...

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Fiddler gave Dilla his first Akai MPC sampler, and later introduced him to Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest. Fiddler released his first solo album Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly in 2004 and followed up with ...

The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...

Every day, songwriters are using AI voices to better target pitch records to artists, producers are trying out AI beats and samples ... Also, Akai MPC AI and LALA AI are both great for stem ...

You could plug a sampler cartridge into your Amiga and be in the dance charts in no time, something which sparked a boom in electronic music creativity. As retrocomputing interest has soared so ...

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She moved off-camera during the Zoom meeting and returned with an Akai MPC, a sound mixer, and a sampler. “Now look, I’m only pulling this out because I just wanna let you know that’s how ...

For Recording Week 2024, we revisit a classic interview surrounding the release of Grimes' fourth album Art Angels ...