The acronym MPC stands for “MIDI Production Centre”, and these products quickly came to define a production for a range of electronic music, especially hip-hop instrumentals. This would become the MPC60, which was released in December 1988.Įver since, Akai have used the MPC framework to create new products, like the MPC2000 XL, which really helped the MPC series find a new audience at the turn of the millennium. Akai’s MPC series started out as a collaboration between Japanese electronics company Akai and famed engineer Roger Linn, having designed the LinnDrum and LM-1, which defined the sounds of the ’80s.Īfter an unsuccessful attempt at launching a drum machine and sampler hybrid called the Linn 9000, he and Akai began working together to “re-engineer” the concept behind the 9000 into something brand new.
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