Akai Professional MPC Studio MIDI Controller Beat Maker with 16 Velocity Sensitive RGB Pads, MPC Software, Assignable Touch Strip and LCD Display

God this thing is so confusing and the program that it comes with isn't any easier. It ain't beginner friendly unless you got alot of time on your hands not suitable for fast sample style beats. Great machine non the less for the experience professional.

It’s everything I hope it will be although the screen is very very small but at the same time the screen being small isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it works with the MPC sequencer so you kinda do things off a muscle memory honestly but it is very nice it’s very sturdy and I love it. I think you really get a good bang for your Buck with this.

Bought for my son (age 16) for Christmas, and he had it up and running on his PC (Window 10) in very little time. He's really enjoyed working on it in the few days since, probably for a couple of hours per day. As the product description mentions, the software allows you access to a number of "starter" music and beats samples until you start bringing in your own. Very solidly built, all the pads, buttons and dials have a nice "equipment-grade" feel and not at all like you find on a toy (which it isn't). The software that you download once it's registered to very much full featured, yet not so dense that someone experienced with other creative software (like any of the Adobe suite for example) wouldn't be able to start using relatively quickly. That said, this is not something I'd buy if one was a complete beginner or not already fairly tech-savvy. Obviously, it'll take a little time to get used to how it all works, but in my mind that's a good thing; anything one could master in an afternoon will soon show its limitations. This looks like it could be used for some very sophisticated music and beat making; probably it'd be good for creating sound effects too. For the really motivated, this product could definitely be part of a professional setup and in that light the cost seems especially reasonable.

I have upgraded from the MPK Mini mk3. Wow... what an evolution. I'm using them in conjunction now

Very good

The MPC Studio controller is exactly what I needed for creating beats. I have a Desktop computer I use for my music creation, and yesterday I was having issues getting the Software that I needed to use to download all of my other Software to work on this computer. I finally got the software to work after I did a Windows update. I am in the middle of downloading all of the Software so later this evening I can learn how to use my controller to finally start creating Music the way i want to.

The MPC studio is well built, looks great, and has good capabilities. The issue arises when you get to the software side. The MPC 2 software works for beat making and all that fine, but it lacks basic options that are on 99.9% of all PC programs including not being able to choose or change install locations and the location it puts samples( it doesn't even tell you where you need to find them). This wont be a problem for everyone but I have all of my music production stuff on a separate drive as my C drive's space is at a premium so when I want to install MPC 2 on my F drive only to learn that my only option is C drive to the point that if I try to use symbolic links to make the program think its on my C drive it just crashes hard. If you have a very big C drive and dont mind where the MPC 2 or its sound files go then the MPC studio is prob fine and id even recommend it.

Great buy , worth it & it’s amazing

Excelente. Importação. Chegou rápido, lacrado de fábrica.

Is good for spend free time, but honestly to work siriously with it, it's a pain in the @**.

Absolute best friend for a producer ! Happy cooking y'all

la compraría 1000 veces más. Maravillosa.

Well-constructed bit of kit. Came with MPC Studio 1 and then MPC Studio 2 was made available for download also. Highly recommend for PC based use.