From full-featured behemoths and retro emulations to MPC-style beatmakers and must-have freebies, we round up 10 software ...

Hanging in Hamburg with DJ Koze, as the iconoclastic German producer talks politics, privacy, and his new album, 'Music Can Hear Us' ...

The studio itself had an Akai S1000, which was a stereo sampler. That was a step up for us, because up until that point, we've been using the mono samplers – one of the S950 or the S900.

The audio production industry website Mix Online reports that tons of major archives of music master recordings-mostly from the 90s-have been dying out and disappearing. The problem? Hard drives. For ...

Discover some 80's nostalgia on your MPC with the new expansion pack by Akai Professional and Stealth Audio.

Brash and bouncy, classic UKG has an instantly recognisable sound that remains enduringly popular. We show you how it’s ...

We aren’t suggesting you ditch your software sampler in favour of an old Akai or E-mu – Kontakt, HALion, et al are indispensable modern marvels. But you can pick up a classic hardware sampler for a ...

As Stewart recalls, Deeon made “South Side” right after buying a new Akai sampler. “He was trying to figure it out, to get it working,” he says.

DJ Shadow drew on early hip-hop sounds, structures and techniques, added his own varied and vast record collection, and used a Technics SL-1200 turntable and Akai sampler (and not much else) to ...

Akai celebrated 35 years since the release of its seminal sampler, the MPC-60, with a brand new model that promises to be its “most powerful” production machine to date. The MPC X Special Edition is ...

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