VIDEO: Akai MPC Fly turns your iPad into a professional beat suite
Dan Seitz The iPad is many things to many people, but to musicians, it’s largely a toy. The problem is this: computers can only process so much, so you need physical switches, knobs, and pads in order to get the timing right on certain songs, and to properly execute the mix. Software emulation only goes so far.
Fortunately, Akai, legends in techno and hip-hop, have decided to solve this particular problem and integrate the iPad into the MPC line. But how will this turn you into a techno god, or just a passable dubstep artist?
First, some background: the MPC, or Midi Production Center, is an all-in-one tool: sampler, mixer, recorder, editor. All the old-school rappers you know and love used MPCs; they were cheap (relatively), efficient, and simple to use.
So how does the iPad fit into all this? Akai has a handy video explaining how:
One thing the video doesn’t clarify, though, is the price of turning your iPad into a musician’s laptop. But considering Akai’s current standalone MPCs run into the thousands, don’t expect your future DJ glory to come cheaply.
Akai MPC Fly Stuffs A Classic Sampler Into an iPad Case [Gizmodo]
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