Test: Akai MPC Studio & OS 2.10
After Akai has primarily taken care of the standalone devices and the MPC software in recent years, there is now a new controller again. The MPC Studio is a descendant of the MPC Studio (2012) and Studio Black (2016), but is officially not explicitly distributed as version 2. Together with the MPC software 2, the controller forms a complete production environment for beats and songs that can be used either standalone or as a plug-in for any DAW.
Equipment
In contrast to its predecessor, the four Q-Link controls have been omitted, but there is now a touch strip that can be used to control a number of parameters. More on that in a moment. The new model also has a much smaller screen, but it is now high-resolution and colored. The rest of the device is largely identical: numerous buttons for direct access to important functions, double assignments via the shift key and very responsive pads with multicolor backlight to provide information about velocity or to identify sound categories by color. Essential functions such as quantization, tab tempo, note repeat and arpeggiator, sample start and the like can be On the rear, there is only the USB port and MIDI in and out in
