Akai MPC ONE Standalone Music Production Centre and Sampler
23 Sep, 2020
A hardware DAW!
It is simply amazing in what it can do and is continually being developed. It has a few quirks and bugs but no show stoppers. You can connnect up to 32 USB devices such as synths, laptops and class compliant Midi interfaces which makes it a very powerful studio centrepiece.
The hardware quality is superb and so is the sound quality, you can record at 24-bit and internally it works at 32-bit allowing around 1GB/ 1 Hour recording time per project.
Sampling is very quick and easy, you can assign loops to Pads, or create multi sampled instruments, or autochop samples and create a chopped instrument, or Autosample external Midi synths with auto cross fade looping, plus you get 8 Audio tracks, there’s chord mode for the pads, step sequencer, piano roll, event editor, dozens of quality Effects that can be added at pad level, program level and master, 4 effect send/returns, an arpeggiator, bounce to Pad, mixdown to Master, mixdown to stems. Plus more!
If you do get it, I highly recommend the MPC Bible which is well worth the money. It’s a serious of extensive tutorials which walk you through the many features and workflows of the machine over 800 pages. It’s also kept up to date when new features are added.
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Lavolta Folding Laptop Table Desk Tray Stand with Mouse Board and Cooler Fan
22 May, 2019
Flexible design and good price
Bought for a Novation Peak and it works pretty well for this purpose. It is a little bit wobbly when moving controls, but no enough to be annoying. It’s all plastic joints which is a bit worrying but seems to be strong. I went for this brand over similar ones because the top joints don’t stick up above the shelf which allows putting something longer on it. I think it’s unique in that sense.