Akai MPC 500
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Akai MPC 500 Product Details
The Akai MPC500 is the first truly portable all-in-one Music Production Center, affording artists the ability to sample and create music on-the-go. Whether you travel around the globe for hit-making sessions or across town to link up for a casual beatmaking hang, the Akai MPC500 is the ultimate answer to your mobile production needs. Fully compatible with the legendary MPC line, you can work anywhere with the Akai MPC500s battery-powered capability and drop them back into your Akai MPC2500 when you get back to the studio.
The Akai MPC500 combines a 48-Track MIDI Sequencer and a 32-voice Stereo Digital Sampler, with 12 velocity and pressure sensitive rubber pads. 16MB of on-board memory comes standard and can be expanded up to 128 MB of RAM. When connected to a Mac or PC via its built-in USB port, you can simply drag & drop data between the computer and the Akai MPC500s CF card. Compatible with other MPC products, the Akai MPC500 extends users studios to fit in with their mobile lifestyles.The Akai MPC500 combines a 48-Track MIDI Sequencer and a 32-voice Stereo Digital Sampler, with 12 velocity and pressure sensitive rubber pads. 16MB of on-board memory comes standard and can be expanded up to 128 MB of RAM. When connected to a Mac or PC via its built-in USB port, you can simply drag & drop data between the computer and the Akai MPC500s CF card. Compatible with other MPC products, the Akai MPC500 extends users studios to fit in with their mobile lifestyles.
Features:
- Battery powered (6 AAs) or AC powered (with included power adaptor)
- 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 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 I/O, headphone output, and Midi In/Out
- Internal sounds in Flash
- 4-way sample layering and velocity switching per pad
- 1 low pass filter with resonance per voice
- On-board effects: 2 stereo effects and a Master effect
- Data format: 16-bit linear .wav
- Sampling rate: 44.1 kHz
- Memory: 16MB standard (11.5MB sound memory), expandable to 128MB with EXM128 option
- Preset sound memory: 5MB Flash
- Recording time: 136 sec (16MB mono) 24m 28sec (128MB mono)
- Polyphony: 32-voice
- Dynamic filtering: 2-pole lowpass filter per voice
- Number of active programs: 24 (with 48 pads per program)
- 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
- Maximum events: 100,000 notes
- Resolution: 96ppq
- 99 Sequences
- 48 Tracks per sequence
- 16 MIDI output channels (16 channels x 1 output ports)
- Song mode: 20 songs, 250 steps per song
- Midi Clock Sync: Master/Slave
- 12 velocity and pressure sensitive pads
- 4 pad banks
- 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
- Headphone Output: stereo jack x1
- MIDI: 1x Midi In and 1x Midi Out (both 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.)
- Display: 2x 16 character LCD w/back light
- Memory card slot: Compact Flash (The size of the compact flash card that Akai MPC500 can handle is from 32MB to 2GB)
- Power Supply: 12v DC 600mA (negative tip)
- Battery life: Approximately 4.5 hours of continuous use with LCD backlight ON
- Dimensions (W x H x D): 266mm x 175mm x 44mm
- Weight: 1.34 kg
