Akai MPC500 Compact Sampling Drum Machine & Sequencer

The smallest, most portable MPC ever!  The MPC500 houses a seriously impressive list of features in its tiny chassis. If you want all the power of an MPC in an extremely portable package then you need an MPC500.

The MPC has been a staple of the music production scene, particularly among Hip-Hop and R&B producers, since the original MPC60 was launched in 1988.  The current range of MPCs manages to live up to their distinguished pedigree with ease and the baby of the range, the MPC500, is the perfect bit of kit for the producer or performer on the go.  Being the first ever MPC to run off batteries (approx. 4.5 hours life from 6 AAs) the MPC500 is totally portable and its compact size means you can use it wherever inspiration strikes. Once your home it's easy to integrate with the rest of your studio setup thanks to the integrated compact flash drive and USB connectivity. It's also totally compatible with the rest of the MPC range so, if you've got one of its bigger siblings nestling in the studio it will be easy for you to export your work arcoss from one MPC to the other. It boasts a seriously impressive feature set, which includes all the classic MPC technologies like 'Note Repeat', 'Tap Tempo', 'Full Level' and '12 Level' to speed up your creative workflow alongside some new killer features like a sound-mangling low pass filter with resonance on every voice, two stereo effects, one master effect, four way sampling and velocity layering on every pad. 

Thanks to these new features the new range of MPCs are an awful lot more versatile and alongside the usual suspects of Hip-Hop and R&B heads we reckon the new MPCs will appeal to a much wider audience of producers. For those of you who want all of the MPC appeal packed into the most portable package available we would recommend the MPC500.