
It has a 61 keyboard with aftertouch, 16 drum pads, pitch and mod wheel, and a large touch display, to name a few. The MPC KEY 61 is, as I said, a complete workstation. This sampler has 61 keys and has almost the same sample functions as the S-900.

In 1986, two years before the introduction of the MPC60, Akai introduced the X7000. Of course, you can use the MPC on stage, but then you need a MIDI keyboard, so we waited for a version with keys, and here it is: the MPC KEY.Īn Akai sampler with keys is not new. These machines don’t have a keyboard, and are designed for the studio.


It all started with the MPC60, designed by Roger Linn in 1988, and now from the MPC one to the X. MPC used to stand for MIDI Production Center, but today it stands for Music Production Center.
