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As some of you know Akai (who are responsible for the legendary MPC samplers) earlier this year announced a handful of new products. Among these was the very interesting looking MPC fly (an iOS app developed by Retronyms), the MPC Renaissance and the MPC Studio. The Renaissance and Studio are both midi controllers designed to be used in conjunction with Akai's new MPC software (Sort of like Native Instruments Machine).
Until now we were somewhat kept in the dark about this software but Akai have just released a video overview of the MPC software and I have to say, it looks pretty impressive.
One thing that isn't quite clear though is whether you need the controllers to use the soft wear or whether you could use the soft wear on it's own with another controller. If this is possible then this could be a very affordable solution for beginners to music making and live performances. Coupling the MPC software with a dirt cheap pad controller (say the Korg NanoPad) could be a very convenient compromise for some people. Even though this would be a pretty cool feature I'm not going to be holding my breath.
Anyway, here's the video from Akai.
Wave Machine Lab’s Auria studio offers a 48 track digital recording experience for your iPad with VST support. Well it seems that the VSTs will have to be purchased through the app itself so don’t get yourself too excited about importing your favourite VSTs to your iPad. Also, with Auria studio being an audio recording app it looks like it supports effect VSTs only (So we won’t be running NI Massive on our iPads anytime soon).
