Akai MPC500 With Free EXM128 Expansion Card

Akai MPC500 With Free EXM128 Expansion Card

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Akai MPC500 Description

Akai Professional, the industry standard in modern music production, proudly introduces the MPC500. As the newest addition to the music production center (MPC) family, the battery-powered MPC500 now gives everyone the ability to take this popular compositional tool anywhere they go.

Portable and battery-powered, the MPC500 is further evidence of Akai's market leadership in giving professional musicians and producers products that meet the needs of their increasingly mobile lifestyles. Its unmatched functionality offers drum programming, sequencing and sampling capabilities that allow artists the luxury of creating music on the go in a compact road worthy chassis.

The MPC500 is data compatible with both the MPC1000 and the MPC2500 and includes both line and mic inputs for sampling your own sounds.

Other enhancements include a mass storage-class USB port, which makes it easier than ever to store a massive amount of sample and sequencer data. With the addition of the built-in compact flash drive, musicians and producers will have greater access than ever to all sounds and sequencer data.

Akai MPC500 Portable Music Production Center Features:

• Classic MPC feel in a portable, battery powered unit
• 12 MPC style pads
• Built in effects
• Data compatible with MPC1000 and MPC2500
• CF card for quick, expandable data storage
• Uses same EXM128 memory expansion as MPC1000 and MPC2500
• USB for transferring samples and sequences to and from a computer
• Selectable mic/line inputs
• Q-Link slider for writing tune, filter or level automation
• Pattern-based and linear 48-track sequencer
• 16 MIDI channels
• 16-bit/44.1kHz sampling
• 32-voice drum/phrase sampler with up to 128MB RAM
• Battery powered (6 AAs) or AC powered
• Velocity and pressure sensitive pads for expressive programming
• 12 Levels function: one sound on all pads with varied level or tuning per pad
• Built-in Compact Flash drive and USB port (Mass Storage Class)
• Support for standard WAV files and MIDI sequences
• Built-in Analog Audio I/O, headphone output, and MIDI I/O
• Internal sounds in Flash
• 4-way sample layering and velocity switching per pad
• 1 lowpass filter with resonance per voice
• On-board effects: 2 stereo effects and a Master effect
• Memory expansion available separately
• Compact Flash card and AC power adapter included

Akai MPC500 Portable Music Production Center Specifications:

• General
• Display: 2 x 16 character LCD w/back light
• Memory card slot:Compact Flash (The size of the compact flash card that MPC500 can handle is from 32MB to 2GB)
• Dimensions: 266mm x 175mm x 44mm
• Weight: 1.34 kg
• Power requirement: 12v DC 600mA (negative tip)
• Battery life: Approximately 4.5 hours of continuous use with LCD backlight ON

Akai MPC500 Sound Generator

• Sampling rate: 44.1kHz
• Memory capacity: 16MB standard (11.5MB for sound memory), expandable to 128MB
• Recording time: 136sec. (16MB, MONO) or 24m28sec. (128MB, MONO)
• Memory expansion slot: 1 x for optional EXM128
• Data format: 16-bit linear
• Polyphony: up to 32 (dependent on processing)
• Dynamic filtering: 2-pole lowpass filter per voice
• Preset sound memory: 5MB
• Number of programs: 24

Akai MPC500 Effects

• Effects: 2 stereo effects and Master effect
• Effect type: Chorus, Flanger, Bit grunger, 4 band EQ, Compressor, Phase shifter, Tremolo,
• Flying pan, Reverb, Delay
• Master effect: 4-band EQ, Compressor

Akai MPC500 Sequencer

• Maximum events: 100,000 notes
• Resolution: 96 parts per 1/4-note
• Sequences: 99
• Tracks per sequence: 48
• MIDI output channels: 16
• Song mode: 20 songs, 250 steps per song
• Drum pad: 12 (velocity and pressure sensitive)
• Drum pad banks: 4
• Sync mode: MIDI clock

  Akai MPC500 Inputs/Outputs

  • Record input (L and R): 1/4-inch stereo phone x 2, pseudo balanced -40dBu, input impedance 9k ohm
  • Max. Input level: +10dBu
  • Stereo output (L and R): 1/4-inch phone x 2 pseudo balanced +11dBu, output impedance, 1k Ohms
  • Max. Output level: +5 dBu
  • Phones output: 1/4-inch stereo phone x 1, 200mW / 100 ohms
  • MIDI inputs: 1 x 5-pin DIN
  • MIDI outputs: 1 x 5-pin DIN
  • USB: Slave connector x 1, USB MASS STORAGE CLASS support (Windows 2000/ME/XP or later version, or Mac OS 9.x/10.x or later version.)

    Akai MPC500 Data Compatibility

    • MPC1000: SEQ, WAV, PGM
    • MPC2000/2000XL: SEQ, WAV, SND, PGM (Most parameters of PGM file can be loaded.)
    • MPC2500: SEQ, WAV, PGM
    • MPC4000: SEQ, WAV, PGM (DRUM program only. Only note assign and tune are loaded.)
    • MPC3000: SND (THRU Computer)
    • Z4/Z8: WAV, PGM (DRUM program only. Only note assign and tune are loaded.)
    • S5000/6000: WAV only (THRU Computer)

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