Akai Professional MPX8 |Portable Sample Pad Controller with Velocity-Sensitive Pads, MIDI Connectivity & On-Board SD Card Slot

Best quality product. But packing is bad

Price High

Nice...It is managing sampled by voice, linein, and from system easily. It seems a lack of storage in timber pad. Wav files covers a lot of space. Over all instrument comparatively nice.

Most 3rd class product

Unique and robust. Great product the possibilities are endless with this one! Much better than the MPX 8 and a lot easier to use.

This is an excellent product if you want to trigger from other MIDI controllers. But I only found one problem that while triggering in from other instruments like keyboard, or drum pads like Yamaha dtx, spd 20/20 spd30 few MIDI notes keeps skipping which is a real pain, does any found solution for this please help.

Product is compact and handy. Only a music file player, thats all. No more editing features, audio output quality is very disappointed. Issue of auto start recording & start point. But useful as per amount.

Item missing poor quality

Straight forward easy ready to go mpc anywhere on the go..

J’ai pris ce drumpad pour mon compagnon et il adore !!!!! Parfait pour faire de la musique, les touches sont agréables

I put off buying this for a long time, mainly due to reviews here and elsewhere online. After watching a product demonstration on YouTube I decided to buy and I am very glad that I did. This is an excellent piece of kit that does exactly what I needed. I was looking for a stand-alone sample pad that did not need to connect to a laptop and would fit straight into my existing keyboard rig. The MPX16 ticks those boxes, resting neatly on one of my keyboards on its non-slip rubber feet. The menu system is so intuitive that within a few minutes of unboxing I had figured out most of the functions without referring to the manual. The pads themselves are robust and dynamic, responding well to velocity and colour-coded to indicate in play, sample assigned etc. Within a couple of hours the MPX16 was part of my set-up and I was using it live; it's that easy to use. I need it to trigger phrases so I won't say much about the internal sounds; they seem OK but most of them (like the hip hop kits) won't be of any use to me. I want to address some of the comments in other reviews. There have been a number of comments about how difficult people found it to load samples, not knowing what format they should be in. The user manual on page 9 makes it pretty clear which formats are acceptable so before the product arrived I had prepared my samples in Audacity (if you're working with samples and you don't have Audacity, you should download it immediately). It was a simple task to drag and drop my samples onto my correctly-formatted card (also page 9) and the MPX16 picked them up immediately. If you want to use the MPX16 as the card reader, the instructions on page 12 are quite clear on how to do this. Alternatively, you can download the converter from the Akai site. I have seen a number of comments that the maximum capacity of samples that can be loaded into a kit at any time is 30MB - in fact, it's 48MB (page 9 again!). Most of the problems encountered by other reviewers would have been avoided if they'd read the manual! However, it is true that each kit takes a while to load from the card. I have one kit containing 38MB of samples and it takes about 2.5 minutes to load. Having said that, if you arranged your set and your kits appropriately, you could still probably get away with it. Again, use Audacity to optimise your samples to make them as lean as possible. I haven't tried sampling on the device; at the moment, it's not what I need it for. Having said that, like everything else about the MPX16 it appears to be fairly straightforward. Overall, I am very pleased that I went with the MPX16. It may not be for everyone, but it's perfect for my requirements.

Leuk toestel wel wat studiewerk om hem onder de knie te krijgen. Ik gebruik hem als DJ om jingles mee af te spelen.

Qualité professionnelle, une fois que l'on matrise les différents paramètres les possibilités sont énormes.