he Akai Professional MPC X is a standalone drum machine, sampler and music production workstation for the 21st century.

Building on decades of knowledge and technological innovation, Akai have taken everything they learned and developed during the MPC's 30 year reign as the sample workstation and created a brand new, forward thinking MPC.

MPCX. Everything you've come to expect from a flagship MPC and more. 16-velocity and pressure sensitive pads with four banks of pads, 16 q-link encoders with contextually sensitive OLED readouts, a glorious 10.1" multi-touch LED display and support for both HDD an SSD drives.

The new MPC 2.6 Software and Firmware update adds a host of new features:

MPC2.6 workflow wnhancements:

Heavily optimised for MPC software 2.0, the MPCX provides a huge array of on hand controls allowing fast programming of beats, MIDI and sample navigation.

All controls for working with the MPCX or MPC 2.0 is included on the front panel, so there's very little menu diving required to make your beats. There's 10GB of content preloaded onto the 16GB hard drive included with the MPC X. External Drives, plus SATA enabled drives are also supported.

When it comes to hardware integration, there's four MIDI inputs, 2 MIDI outputs and a bank of CV and gate outputs for easy integration with your modular or vintage format synthesizers.

A wide array of audio inputs for sampling and tracking are also onboard; four selectable XLR inputs with phantom power and dual instrument inputs for recording your mics and instruments. There's also the rather essential eight analogue outputs!

The main features of the Akai Professional MPX Include

21st century MPC

10.1 colour touch screen for sample editing and navigation

Windows 10 embedded

16 velocity and pressure sensitive pads

16-Q link with contextually sensitive OLED readouts

A staggering array of audio IO

CV IO and MIDI IO

User replacement SATA HDD