Akai

Loaded with more of everything, iMPC Pro offers 64 tracks, a built-in piano roll editor, superior effects implementation and a choice of friendly sample-fixing tools.

With a long and enviable pedigree in hardware sampling and sequencing, the Akai MPC range has finally gone soft...

Akai Pro have distilled the best of their technologies into a stand-alone clip- and scene-based performance and production workstation.

Akai samplers, in their familiar off‑white rackmount cases, have become fixtures in studios all over the world. Their latest models may use the same colour scheme, but they offer an entirely new user interface and a host of powerful new features.

Central to Atlanta’s white-hot rap scene is producer Zaytoven, who brings a West Coast flavour to trap.

BT revitalised the sound of boy band N'Sync, composed some of the most radical soundtracks to appear in mainstream films, and has a good claim to have invented trance. And he still finds time to talk to SOS...