Akai Professional MPC500 Portable Music Production Center

Akai Professional MPC500 Portable Music Production Center Review

Akai Professional MPC500 Portable Music Production Center Feature

• Battery powered (6 AAs) or wall powered (AC adapter included)
• Pattern-based 48-track sequencer with 16 MIDI channels
• 32-voice drum/phrase sampler with up to 128MB RAM
• Velocity and pressure-sensitive pads for responsive, accurate programming
• 12-level function places one sound on all pads with progressive level or tuning per pad

Akai Professional MPC500 Portable Music Production Center Overview

MPC500 is the first portable MPC. You can sample and create music wherever inspiration strikes: on the subway, on the plane, or even at the beach! Whether you're traveling around the globe or just across town, MPC500 is a perfect fit for your backpack, messenger bag, or briefcase. Beats and productions created in MPC500 can be dropped into your computer via USB or into your main MPC with the swappable CF card when you get back into the studio.

MPC500 is a 48-track sequencer with a 32-voice stereo sampler. It has 12 velocity and pressure-sensitive rubber MPC pads. 16MB of memory comes standard and can be expanded up to 128MB. When connected to a Mac or PC via USB, you can drag and drop data between the computer and your MPC500's CF card, just like a hard drive. Because MPC500 is compatible with other MPCs, MPC500 is the perfect way to extend your studio into your mobile lifestyle. Compact Flash drive and USB port (Mass Storage Class) Support for standard WAV files and MIDI sequences Analog I/O, headphone output, MIDI I/O Sounds included to get started quickly Four-way sample layering and velocity switching per pad Low-pass filter with resonance per voice On-board effects - two stereo effects and a master effect

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Yamaha Motif XF6 Music Production Synthesizer

Yamaha Motif XF6 Music Production Synthesizer Review

Yamaha Motif XF6 Music Production Synthesizer Feature

• Comprehensive high sound quality, including an enormous 741MB of waveforms including an additional 128 Voices and 8 drum kits, for a total of 1,353 high-quality Voices
• Up to 2GB of additional content available through separately sold flash memory
• Realization of unique instrument performance methods through the XA (Expanded Articulation) tone generation system
• Reproduction of the unique, natural, warm sounds of vintage instruments through VCM effects
• 61 key FSX action with initial and aftertouch
• Comprehensive high sound quality, including an enormous 741MB of waveforms.
• Up to 2GB of additional content available through separately sold flash memory.
• Realization of unique instrument performance methods through the XA.
• Reproduction of the unique, natural, warm sounds of vintage instruments.
• 61 key FSX action with initial and aftertouch.
• It has comprehensive high quality sound.
• An additional 128 Voices and 8 drum kits.

Yamaha Motif XF6 Music Production Synthesizer Overview

Soon after the original MOTIF was released in 2001, it was recognized as the best sounding, top selling and most requested music workstation on the market. Over time, it has continued to evolve and improve its expressiveness and functionality. At the same time, the online community of end users, sound programmers, software developers and product support specialists at www.MOTIFATOR.com has expanded into a vibrant online music production community. The MOTIF breathes new life into live performances with its expressive sounds and intuitive control. In music creation, the MOTIF not only offers its own music creation capabilities, it also offers a system for integrating those capabilities with a variety of software applications. And now, the next generation XF builds on the decade-long heritage of MOTIF, and provides groundbreaking expansion capabilities with flash memory that will set a new standard for keyboard workstations for years to come

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Yamaha Motif XF8 Music Production Synthesizer

Yamaha Motif XF8 Music Production Synthesizer Review

Yamaha Motif XF8 Music Production Synthesizer Feature

• Comprehensive high sound quality, including an enormous 741MB of waveforms including an additional 128 Voices and 8 drum kits, for a total of 1,353 high-quality Voices
• Up to 2GB of additional content available through separately sold flash memory
• Realization of unique instrument performance methods through the XA (Expanded Articulation) tone generation system
• Reproduction of the unique, natural, warm sounds of vintage instruments through VCM effects
• 88 key Balanced Hammer weighted action with initial and aftertouch
• Comprehensive high sound quality, including an enormous 741MB of waveforms including an additional 128 Voices and
• 8 drum kits, for a total of 1,353 high-quality Voices

Yamaha Motif XF8 Music Production Synthesizer Overview

Soon after the original MOTIF was released in 2001, it was recognized as the best sounding, top selling and most requested music workstation on the market. Over time, it has continued to evolve and improve its expressiveness and functionality. At the same time, the online community of end users, sound programmers, software developers and product support specialists at www.MOTIFATOR.com has expanded into a vibrant online music production community. The MOTIF breathes new life into live performances with its expressive sounds and intuitive control. In music creation, the MOTIF not only offers its own music creation capabilities, it also offers a system for integrating those capabilities with a variety of software applications. And now, the next generation XF builds on the decade-long heritage of MOTIF, and provides groundbreaking expansion capabilities with flash memory that will set a new standard for keyboard workstations for years to come

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Yamaha MOTIFXS6 Music Production Synthesizer

Yamaha MOTIFXS6 Music Production Synthesizer Review

This keyboard is great but not as great as some publicity you can find on the net. The voices sound quality is very good but e.g. the sax sound or guitars quite adequate are nothing to write home about. Do buy this keyboard if you are an experienced/trained musician but don't buy it if you don't have that knowledge no matter how good and funny Bert Smorenburg demos are. I did make the mistake of buying it without any knowledge just because I spent some time "playing" with it at the store and thought I could play in PERFORMANCE MODE with all the automatic arpeggios but after a while (more sooner than later) that sound can become boring and you DO NEED to play it on your own. If this keyboard was way cheaper I could have keep it as a cool toy for playing some rhythm and spacey sound but doing that with such an expensive keyboard is such a waste I felt guilty and returned it.

Yamaha MOTIFXS6 Music Production Synthesizer Feature

• 61-key new FSX keyboard
• Intuitive interface, easy operation
• High quality sounds to spark your creativity
• Ideal For live performance, studio, song creating and arranging
• Advanced integration with computers and software, Cubase AI included

Yamaha MOTIFXS6 Music Production Synthesizer Overview

With the new Yamaha MOTIF XS, inspiration is just a key press away. High-quality sounds to inspire you, intelligent arpeggiators to fuel your creativity, recording features to capture every idea, built-in sampling to create full audio/MIDI arrangements, rhythmic Patterns to compose with, studio-style mixing controls and versatile effect processing to master your final productions. 

With all this and more, the MOTIF XS will soon be your favorite 'go-to' instrument - whether you're composing at home, recording in the studio, or playing live. Close your eyes, play the gorgeous sounds and rhythms of the MOTIF XS - and feel the inspiration. The MOTIF XS provides an exceptionally broad selection of realistic sounds to spark your creativity, with a massive 355 MB of high-quality waveforms and samples on board. Among the standout Voices is a resonant, meticulously recorded concert grand piano sound that is practically worth the price of admission by itself. New acoustic piano, electric piano and orchestral samples, richly textured and distinctly electronic synthesizer waves - give you the sonic tools to fully realize virtually any style of music and any instrumentation. Another new feature is the Expanded Articulation (XA) tone generation system. Using the eight available Elements, XA allows you to more effectively recreate realistic sound and natural performance techniques - such as legato, staccato and key release sounds - often used on acoustic instruments but unavailable or difficult to realize on electronic keyboards. A wide selection of special Mega Voices provide even more expressive nuance, when used with sequencer tracks or the special Mega Voice Arpeggios. The MOTIF XS has a full complement of effects, both insert (Insertion) and send (System), and includes a special set of VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) effects that authentically model the elements in analog circuitry, realistically recreating the uniquely warm characteristics of vintage processing gear.

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