The Akai MPC500 holds a unique, slightly polarizing, but undeniably legendary spot in the lineage of music production hardware. Released in 2006, it arrived as the first truly portable "Music Production

a little mix of some 808 kits, african drums and some 8 bit sounds, among various other drum machine samples and some original sampled synthesizer sounds. still very much digging this MPC ▶️ 3Speak

just a little something i came up with on my trip to nyc for the holidays, using a bunch of old 8- bit video game sounds in my sampler ▶️ 3Speak

20 plus new beats/patterns on my new MPC Live...switching up the kits breathes interesting life into the same pattern. I am indeed very happy with this machine so far-i don't think i've picked up my octatrack

here is some more patterns/beats that i programmed on my new MPC Live sampler. for this video, most of the sounds were from samples from my personal archive, with some sounds that i either sampled or created