With navigation display screens across the top, 4 x 4 grid drum pads and various inputting buttons and a slider, it’s easy to see how the MPC layout became the forerunner for what’s still commonplace today with percussion-based MIDI controllers and workstations. Although sample-based drum machines had arrived on the scene by the early 1980s, it wasn’t until later in those iconic ten years that the world was introduced to the machine that set the benchmark for so many ‘workstation’ designs that followed – the Akai MPC60. Terms like ‘MPC workflow’, ‘old-school sampling’, ‘finger-drumming’ and ‘hardware workflow’ are now universal terminology, however, this hasn’t always been the case. But this inaugural product was taking its cues from foundations set decades previously. But when this great unifier of hardware and software first manifested back in 2009, it appeared slightly out of step with a production landscape still very much in thrall to the magic of computer-based workflows. It’s one of the world’s most widely-used music technology workstations, and with the advent of the newly launched Maschine +, now a completely self-sufficient way of making music without the need for a computer.
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