Akai

Akai combine MPC-style pads with more traditional sliders and rotary encoders in their cost-effective new desktop USB MIDI controller box. Is it destined to be a hit?

Akai will be best known to SOS readers for their samplers and ever-popular MPC range — so what can they bring to the controller keyboard party?

Akai have long been the predominant name in hip-hop beat creation, thanks to their MPC range. Can they continue this success with that increasingly rare thing, a drum machine?

Akai's MPC has been with us for 20 years now — an incredibly long time in music production. So is the latest addition to this venerable range, the MPC5000, a worthy bearer of its standard?

Akai and Ableton have collaborated on the APC40, to bring tightly integrated, hands-on hardware control to Live.

The tiny MPK25 goes beyond knobs and buttons alone, offering MPC-style drum pads for added versatility.

Are Akai's mini MIDI controllers the perfect partners for your laptop?

This versatile compact synth takes the essence of its close cousin, the Alesis Micron, and adds a twist...

The Ableton controller race is hotting up — so how does the latest contender, the Akai APC20, compare to the competition?