Akai Professional MPX8 USB MIDI Sample Pad Controller | 8 Velocity-Sensitive Pads, MIDI Connectivity, SD Card Slot, for Sampling and Beat Making

Does exactly what it says on the box, a handy wee sample playback unit.

I'm glad I didn't take those negative reviews to heart as this is absolutely fab little machine. Unlike some I actually read what is says on the tin first so knew what to expect.. Must admit it is quite tricky to upload your first samples but once I got my head around it it's all go. Superb!

Just one thing to mention about this product considering previous reviews. You could assign any length of sample to a pad - but it has to be under 3oMB, but also remember, that if you want eight samples assigned to each of the eight pads, then the sum of the size of all eight samples together must be under 30MBs. Therefore, if you had four samples whose combined file size was just under 30MB, then you would not be able to add any more to that particular 'kit'. You can have a 32GB SD card full of samples and numerous different 'kits' on it, but you still have a limit of total file size over the pads For a drum kit, that would be more than adequate, and that is really what this is for. I use lo-fi,16 bit mono 22,000Khz samples, so less space, but even that can be a bit of a juggling act. But if you want long 16bit Stereo files, you would probably find this very limiting. If you are intending to use this as a drum trigger - I think it would be very useful -It is AKAI after all, and the pads are very popular. For me, I like it for one purpose: to trigger lo-fi loops. It is pretty robust but the software editor is not the easiest or most intuitive and can be a bit frustrating, but does have a few tweaking parameters. It wouldn't be my go-to piece of kit, but for my needs at this price it is certainly adequate.

This seemed like a great product till I tried to use it. It doesn’t like the Mac at all so don’t even consider writing to an SD card unless you are using a PC. The hidden files on Mac drive it nuts. It doesn’t seem to like WAV files created by Ableton so you have to resave them in Audacity and be very careful not to have any information in the header. Once the sounds are in you would think it would be okay? In use it drops out notes it receives over the 5 pin MIDI port. You would think the USB port would connect you to the card reader? Nope! The velocity sensitivity on the pads isn’t musical and if you do get sounds working they jump out at you at full volume or no volume at all. Switch the machine off and on again and it comes back at a totally different volume. Frustrating and slow to use. Might be useful as a sound bank for a drummer but as a sampler or sample playback machine it’s awful.

Poor MIDI performance, it necessitates having something altering the MIDI stream going into it to make it work properly. But beyond that glaring fault it is a good device and it's dirt cheap.

Straight forward easy ready to go mpc anywhere on the go..

Very disapointed with this, unreasonably specific file type restrictions, very poor supporting app, samples take a lot of fiddling to work without audio glitches.

The akia MPX3 is Great for drum tracks and makes the whole thing alot easyer

Definitely a fun piece of hardware, hooks up easily and it's very good quality! The velocity sensitivity is great as well

Leuk toestel wel wat studiewerk om hem onder de knie te krijgen. Ik gebruik hem als DJ om jingles mee af te spelen.

Great product and fast shipping!

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