Akai ProfessionalMPX8 - Portable Sample Pad Controller With 8 Performance-Ready Velocity-Sensitive Pads, MIDI Connectivity and On-Board SD Card Slot, Black

Straight forward easy ready to go mpc anywhere on the go..

The akia MPX3 is Great for drum tracks and makes the whole thing alot easyer

Just one thing to mention about this product considering previous reviews. You could assign any length of sample to a pad - but it has to be under 3oMB, but also remember, that if you want eight samples assigned to each of the eight pads, then the sum of the size of all eight samples together must be under 30MBs. Therefore, if you had four samples whose combined file size was just under 30MB, then you would not be able to add any more to that particular 'kit'. You can have a 32GB SD card full of samples and numerous different 'kits' on it, but you still have a limit of total file size over the padsFor a drum kit, that would be more than adequate, and that is really what this is for. I use lo-fi,16 bit mono 22,000Khz samples, so less space, but even that can be a bit of a juggling act. But if you want long 16bit Stereo files, you would probably find this very limiting.If you are intending to use this as a drum trigger - I think it would be very useful -It is AKAI after all, and the pads are very popular. For me, I like it for one purpose: to trigger lo-fi loops. It is pretty robust but the software editor is not the easiest or most intuitive and can be a bit frustrating, but does have a few tweaking parameters. It wouldn't be my go-to piece of kit, but for my needs at this price it is certainly adequate.

I was pleasantly surprised by how solid the construction felt despite not being particularly heavy. Pads responded well and with firmware update - which I don't understand why it's not applied before shipping - worked. That said, there's a step missing. You need to power off the device, hold down the SELECT+ and VOLUME+ then with them held down power on the unit and follow the rest of the instructions. Took me ages to figure that one out.The only things I have against it were the speed it takes to queue up tracks from SD card. Seems to take about 3 seconds per second of audio. Not a huge problem if they stayed in memory but it you accidentally move off the memory card and back to it all the tracks need to requeue, same if the unit gets powered down. Also the MPX8 doesn't appear as an audio device, neither recording to nor transmitting from the device is possible over USB.

Absolutely appalling piece of kit. Package arrived with a EURO plug, not a problem for me as I travel to Italy several times a year, and haveloads of conversion plugs knocking around. Problems started when I tried to upgrade the firmware - I could not get the SD card reader torecognise any card that I used (I think I tried four or five). OK, can't upgrade the firmware (to play files in stereo as opposed to mono), letsee how it works as a sampler - success (I thought), I managed to get a couple of mono files to read from the card (very slowly), shut the thing downfor a few hours, rebooted, the SD card was not recognised anymore. Tried yet another card (correctly formatted by the way) worked untilI shut the sampler down. Wouldn’t recognise the card when I re-booted. The internal samples are OK, but I did purchase this to be able toplay my own samples, so pretty useless to me. Oh, and the AKAI MPX8 application that you download free from the AKAI website isa joke - crashes more often than not. AVOID!

dose what it say it dose, and dose it well. on a budget and fits in your handbag.

Very disapointed with this, unreasonably specific file type restrictions, very poor supporting app, samples take a lot of fiddling to work without audio glitches.

Great