Music Technology post 3: how Akai's MPC and Sampling changed music
Akai is a Japanese company that has been putting out some of the best music technology tools for around 4 decades and will continue to. There’s many great MIDI controllers and drum machines and samplers but none will ever top the Akai MPC. The Akai MPC is not only a top of the line sampler, but is the heart and soul of hip-hop production. The MPC60 was released in December of 1988 and was designed to be user friendly, intuitive and functional. Well, it was just that. That is why many producers switched over to it. It came with 16 sample pads that allowed 13 seconds of sound in each one. It really became a big deal around the mid 90’s, when producer J Dilla came onto the scene. He used the MPC 2000XL and MPC 3000. He was such an important figure, in not only hip-hop but music as a whole, that his MPC 3000 is actually on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. This really took sampling to a whole new level and it is kind of a big deal. Music is forever evolving and with the MPC, the art of sampling continued to evolve. Sampling is when an artist takes a piece of another song and uses it in theirs. You can pretty much take these samples, assign them to any of the 16 drum pads and play the sample by just hitting the pad. Coby Ashpis is a musician out of LA and said in a Vox article, “You can play one sample like a full instrument; you can change it. It opened up all recorded music to be played with in a really freeing way — a way that still used beats and samples but is more similar to playing a traditional acoustic instrument like keyboards or drums,”. It really is amazing to see the longevity of the MPC as well. It is still a household name in production today.
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