The Akai MPC One gives you a total music production solution that’s sure to take your ideas from concepts into finalized radio-ready beats.īoasting a compact size, the MPC One packs a bunch of features and tools into ONE powerful punch! Including beat programming, editing, mixing FX and instruments, and so much more. To learn more about the Akai MPC One Retro Edition, or to find a dealer near or convenient to you, check out it’s listing on Akai’s website.Akai MPC One Standalone Music Production Controller However, for all of the features the MPC One offers, the Retro Edition’s price tag of $899 seems to offer quite a fair exchange. Of course, while the new MPC edition offers a 1988 throwback, users will unfortunately not be paying 1988 prices for it. While the Akai MPC One Retro Edition doesn’t necessarily effect the typical 2020 MPC set up, it’s certainly a welcome visual option to many. Finally, all 16 drum pads will maintain their modernized color-changing border lights as well. Additionally, producers need not worry about their full color LCD displays being backdated as well, that will stay exactly the same on the Retro Edition. This makes sense of course - why pack a new MPC unit with tons of updates in a color scheme today’s Gen-Z producers might not appreciate? The MPC One Retro Edition sports the classic yellow back-lit buttons and dark grey rotary selectors of the original hardware piece. Likely because of its special release nature, satisfying the cravings of a special group. Akai Professional MPC One Retro EditionĪside from its throwback paint and color update, the Retro Edition MPC One offers no differences from the standard. Well now those users can rest easy since Akai Professional decided to merge the look of 1988 with the hardware of 2021, dubbed the MPC One Retro Edition. However, many producers still experience intense nostalgia for the look that introduced them to the MPC system in the first place. Since then of course, the MPC and the rest of the tech world has evolved with changing trends both stylistically and internally. At the time, cream backgrounds, bright red square buttons and lights, and seven-segment displays were all the rage with new tech. Back in 1988, Akai Professional released the very first version of its MPC production system.

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