Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Akai Professionals MPD24 is the velocity sensitive pad controller for musicians and DJs working with sampled sounds. The MPD24 features 16 MPC-style velocity and pressure sensitive pads plus transport controls for interfacing with DAW/sequencing app...









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Rating: - Good Item!!!
I recently purchased this item as a gift for my boyfriend, and for what I hear from him he loves it. He says that he still has to get use to how it all functions but the soft touch pads are great. Overall it is a great investment to have if you love making music.

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Rating: - MPC Pads. Akai quality.
So many people argue whether or not to go hardware or software in the Hip-Hop production circles. Now it's even easier to make the switch to software and still retain that MPC feel of the oldschool. The pads are great and work just like an MPC would. What you get out of it depends on your sequencer though. I personally recommend and use Reason 4, which contrary to skeptics, is much more versatile and quicker to use than an MPC. Once you learn the work flow, and I mean really learn it you'll never go back to an MPC again. Trust me, the MPD is the future of producing with sequencers being in the forefront of every producers studio theses days.

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Rating: - Why isn't everything as simple and awesome as this?
I just love this product. I have made so much music with it. I just love the mpc style pads. I don't understand why keyboard manufactures don't use the sensitive pad system. It just feels like how an instrument should be controlled. I have a midi key board and the only reason I use it to get at more notes. This pad set up lets you pound out rhythm lines just like you would on a bass or guitar. Ones you figure out the cro matic scale set up. I want a giant one of these with like 64 keys.
I am going to sell my mpc1000 because with the mpd24 I get the sensitivity of the mpc pad but the ease of control of my computers sequencer. Mpc software is so 1990 to me.
I just adjust the swing in the sequencer on my computer and Bam! I have an mpc!

Oh and writing drum loops is just so easy with this unit.