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Akai Professional MPK61

Item ID: MPK61

61-key USB MIDI Controller with 16 MPC-style Pads

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A Great-playing 61-key Controller with 16 MPC-style Pads Onboard!

The Akai Professional MPK61 USB MIDI keyboard controller makes a perfect addition to your live or home studio setup! You get a very high-quality, 61-key semi-weighted keyboard with aftertouch for starters; this makes the MPK61 and your virtual instruments as expressive as you want to make them! While this alone would make the MPK61 worth the price, the addition of 16 MPC-style velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads adds another dimension. The ability to control up to 72 different parameters make it easy to take command of your instruments and audio applications with the MPK61!

Akai Professional MPK61 USB MIDI Keyboard Controller at a Glance:
  • Take control with an MPC-style interface
  • Assignable controls mean maximum flexibility with your instruments and applications


MPC-style interface
The Akai Professional MPK61 features MPC-style Full Level and 12 Level functions on its pads, and MPC Swing can be applied to both Note Repeat and Arpeggio functions. Tap Tempo and time-division buttons allow for real-time control of Note Repeat and Arpeggio clock speeds.

Assignable controls
The MPK61 lets you control up to 72 different parameters, with 24 assignable Q-link controls.

Akai Professional MPK49 USB MIDI Keyboard Controller Features:
  • 61-key, semi-weighted keyboard with aftertouch
  • Eight full-sized, 360-degree rotation pots, each with three banks
  • 16 MPC-style velocity and pressure sensitive pads
  • Eight full-sized sliders with three controller banks each
  • MPC-style note repeat and all new arpeggiator
  • Eight assignable backlit switches with three controller banks each
  • MMC/MIDI Start Stop transport buttons
  • Large, easy-to-read custom LCD display
  • Ships with Ableton Live Lite Akai Edition software

Akai Professional MPK61 — the next generation of USB/MIDI performance controllers!

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Specification Detail
Number of Keys 61
Type of Keys Semi-weighted
Aftertouch Yes
Number of Performance Pads 16
Number of Encoders/Pots 13
Number of Sliders/Faders 8
Dedicated Transport Control Yes
Other Controllers Pitchbend, Mod Wheel
System Requirements Mac 1.25 GHz G4/G5 or faster (Intel Mac recommended), 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended), Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.5 or later recommended)
System Requirements PC 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or Celeron compatible CPU or faster, 1 GB RAM, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP, Windows compatible soun
Pedal Inputs Sustain, Expression
MIDI I/O In, Out, and USB
USB Yes
Height 2.5"
Width 36"
Depth 11.25"
Weight 28 lbs.
Power Supply Bus Powered, AC Adapater Optional
Manufacturer Part Number MPK61

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Midi Delirium

by David Garcia from Fullerton, CA
July 13, 2010
Music Background: Born in a synthesizer, Student.
The mpk is one cool midi keyboard thats solid like rock. Only about a million and half mappable knobs faders buttons and pads. Love the thing always on it configuring different do dads and such. Only... read more [+] downside is the absence of a power button???..... Still a great big controller for only five benjies close [-]

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