The first model, the MPC60 (MIDI Production Center), was released on December 8, 1988, and retailed for $5,000. Akai did the production engineering, making it "more manufacturable". He designed the functions, including the panel layout and hardware specification, and created the software with his team he credited the circuitry to a team led by English engineer David Cockerell. He disliked reading instruction manuals and wanted to create an intuitive interface that simplified music production.
Linn described the MPC as an attempt to "properly re-engineer" the Linn 9000. According to Linn, his collaboration with Akai "was a good fit because Akai needed a creative designer with ideas and I didn't want to do sales, marketing, finance or manufacturing, all of which Akai was very good at". His company Linn Electronics had closed following the failure of the Linn 9000, a drum machine and sampler. Linn had designed the successful LM-1 and LinnDrum, two of the earliest drum machines to use samples (prerecorded sounds). The original MPC, the MPC-60, was a collaboration between the Japanese company Akai and the American engineer Roger Linn. Grooveboxes, machines that combined these functions, such as those by E-mu Systems, required knowledge of music production and cost up to $10,000. The little rotary encoder on the MPC1000 works a lot better in that respect.The MPC was designed by Roger Linn (pictured in 2010), who also created the LinnDrum.īy the late 1980s, drum machines had become popular for creating beats and loops without musicians, and hip hop artists were using samplers to take portions of existing recordings and create new compositions. The data wheel rotary encoder in the MPC2500 wears out easily and over time doesn't increment values smoothly like it's supposed to. With these buttons, I have to be VERY gentle with them (a gentle "soft" press) because of fear that if I press a button just a little too hard just one time, it will start acting up and either become hard to respond or non-responsive at all. I don't have a Ren or an X, but I do have the 1000 and the 2500 and the buttons on those SUCK BIG TIME!!! They feel very cheap and over time, they become non-responsive.
In some respects, I actually prefer the build quality of the Ren over the MPC X.Really? Tell me more!!! How is the build quality of the X? What are the weaknesses?
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