Akai

A reboot of the first dedicated Ableton Live controller brings with it many welcome improvements.

Akai break from tradition with their new all–analogue lupine groove–maker.

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.