I watched and listened with bated breath! A wonderful instrument and an amazingly talented performer! Anyone who can play such music must be a very good person!
I love how people want to compare to their premium vsts or even hardware, when this is an all in one production unit, workstation, DAW, with pure integration-full size, and less than the competition. If you can’t make kick ass music with this, you’re shit out of luck trying to integrate all your discrete instruments into something cohesive. If you don’t see the sound shaping ease with this, MPC was never meant for you.
It’s a Nice Board Not needed it you already have a X or LiveII like in my Case I use the Komplete Kontrol S49Mk2 I just picked up a new X last week! It was the X or Key61 I went for the Flagship X as I already have a Smart Controller in NI but the Board looks great! And I own all the plugins of it on my X and LiveII The IO and dedicated buttons along with everything else on the X it’s just so premium for me everything is running to my patchbay eight outputs into my Apollo X6 Rack 😎 wish hope they make a KeyPro..💯 Shalawam!!
What are you talking about? This is a good keyboard but stop comparing it with a DAW! You have all this ‘workflow’ with a laptop, interface, a controller (even QWERTY keyboard) and the MPC software. It’s good as a keyboard, for live and even creating a song but no one in their right mind is going to ditch their computer with its larger screen, more powerful processors and RAM, not to mention the I/O, and, shell out thousands on this keyboard. It has its place and for keyboard players is great.
@@scarvellodepends on your needs and what you have. You’re not going to play like this bro with 37 keys but if you have a 61 key controller you can hook it up to the 37 keys and play away hehe. The 37 keys is a lot cheaper so there is that to consider as well.
That’s a nice board. I have this funny feeling I see a -73 or -88 key version in the near future. I can see myself with this in my hotel room with my laptop.😌🎶👍🏾
Don’t do it probably already got these same plug in. It took a skill piano player to make them sound dam good but . All instruments are basic with just some effects on them. They almost got me and MPC .. live . Whose name is Shirley
Gotta get it. I have the MPC 1 and I knew it was special. Can't wait to own this keyboard Lord willing! Normally you have to put effects on most keyboards in the DAW to get them to sound this well by default. Under $2k and sounds like the $3500 Yamaha Genos I believe it's called!
Simply put, it's the best of both worlds! An amazing product with incredible sounds, and an incredible, mesmerising player, a match made in synthy heaven!
Guitar player of 25 years with 15 years studio experience. Definitely not the best keyboard player. With that said, I wanted a workstation to seamlessly record ideas into so I initially purchased the Roland Fantom 06, which is an incredible performance instrument but it's sequencer has such a robotic feel to it since it's pattern based and doesn't offer linear recording like the Akai MPC 61. The returning point for me was importing samples on to the Roland and only having 8MB (yes MB) of space on it after adding expansion packs. Just got the Akai today and have an incredible feeling about it. The push buttons do seem a little on the cheaper side but everything else is incredibly well built. Can't wait to have some fun with it.
The Fantom can have notes offset manually or with a Swing parameter. A lot of music like rock and country works perfectly arranged in a bunch of clips for the user to launch. It also gives more on-the-fly flexibility if repeating a verse or chorus is desired, and more, with ease that you won't get on a linear sequencer.
I am more of a keyboard player, than I am a beat maker. I was curious to invest in a square shaped MPC unit, or NI’s Machine. But I never took the plunge for fear of spending alot of money on a device I’d only occasionally interact with. But with this new hybrid? I think I may have changed my mind.
@@PB72UK Yes that is true, but the ergonomics of this new product makes interacting with this new hybrid keyboard a better user experience, versus plugging in a separate keyboard into an MPC. This new design also in studio setups, where maybe desk space is limited. if you don’t have a use for this new design, then it understandable you may not consider buying it. For me? I really like it.
If you decide to take the jump into the MPC world, let us know what you think! We're really impressed with how easy and natural the MPC Key is to play and how incredibly responsive and expressive it is!
It’s a Nice! Board Not needed if you already have a X or LiveII like in my Case’ I use the Komplete Kontrol S49Mk2 I just picked up a new X last week! It was the X or Key61 I went for the Flagship X as I already have a Smart Controller in NI but the Board looks great! And I own all the plugins of it on my X and LiveII The IO and dedicated buttons along with everything else on the X it’s just so premium for me everything is running to my patchbay eight outputs into my Apollo X6 Rack 😎 wish hope they make a KeyPro..💯 Shalawam!!
Excellent demo love your playing man! Akai is now back to the synth game. I like the way it’s designed keyboard sounds really good just wanted to know what are the other instruments sounds are in side the board? I have seen limited instruments sounds more of pianos pads and strings dose it has other necessary instruments sounds like a Yamaha/Roland and Korg? I am totally interested in this keyboard...Love it! ❤️ Thank you 🙏
Hi Mike Patrick, I was wondering will the Akai MPC key 61 have the capability to create rhythms in the style of Jazz, soft ballads and cocktail styles to play along with my new Nord Piano 5 88 please? I have ordered this keyboard yesterday together with the Nord Piano 5 88 ... Beautiful playing and yes, I still have a Yamaha Montage 7 as-well. Please advise
Great playing… the sounds leave a lot to be desired, although they’re not terrible. I’ll save my money, keep my mpc one, and just get another synth and add a model 12 and an sp404 to my standalone set up.
So, i see you working with the akai. Is it really that good being a Yamaha man. Or is it. They are paying you well to push this product? Cause it looks like if line the keys are clunky. You can't switch fast between programs so it mainly good at home but not live. And the sounds are just okay
I've only heard hip hop on this keyboard let's play some other music like classical and other genres would be good doing vids like this fella has shown us
There is no all in one effing with this at it's current price point. If I add a decent keyboard to my Live 2 then I've already blown the budget and that's without the extra sounds. Incredible. Just like Akai did with the One, they'll increase the price on this in less than 18 months.
You can now pick this up for £1058. It's dropped like a stone and it's hard to say why. Sounds are great, MPC workflow. The keys are ok, pretty cheap but the board is fast and easy to play.
I think it sounds like crap. Not even close to many soft synths like Omnisphere or U-he, or real hardware like Kurzweil. Thank goodness the player here knows some chords to dress up an otherwise blah keyboard.
I have to agree, especially the pianos are some of the worst samples I've heard in recent times. Doesn't matter how many gigabytes you cram in there if the sampling process and post production is shit.
It's does not have the power of your computer at all and is limited to just 4 GB for samples. For that you get keys pad sequencer audio in our interface full sampling multiple synth engines without the need of a computer. Omnisphere here is $500+ upgrade prices and computer updates that can cause problems, you also must buy the computer you are running it on without keys pad daw sequencer or audio in out interface and sampling app. This is meant to compliment the computer, its best when hooked to a computer, or to allow you to compose completely including recording mics vocal real good instruments even omnisphere and other vsts into the keyboard. Or to do everything with no need for internet or computer or studio.
@@shan5445 komplete is great about $600 for standard version. But it needs a powerful computer which you are always tied too daw pads keys audio interface easy sample program I think komplete would be a great compliment to the keyboatd.
@@Tigerex966 Oh yes I agree Komplete does need a good computer to run on. I wonder if you can use third party VSTs on the Akai Key 61. Don't you think you are being a little harsh some of those sounds are good.
