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Akai MPC Renaissance

An Akai MPC60, the MPC Renaissance

Other names	MIDI Production Center, Music Production Controller Classification Audio Midi Interface and Hardware Controller Inventor(s)	Roger Linn

The Akai MPC Renaissance is reiteration of a family of electronic music instruments with a long legacy that began with the original of Akai MPC 60. The MPC brand (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards. The MPC platform combines sampling and sequencing functions, with later versions incorporating Computer Audio Interfaces and hardware controller functions.

The first MPCs were designed by Roger Linn, who had designed the successful LM-1 and LinnDrum drum machines. He aimed to create an intuitive instrument, with a grid of pads that could be played similarly to a traditional instrument such as a keyboard or drum kit. Rhythms can be built not just from samples of percussion but samples of any sound, such as horns or synthesizers. Linn anticipated that users would sample short sounds; to his surprise, they also sampled long sequences of music.

The MPC had a major influence on the development of electronic and hip hop music, allowing musicians and producers to create elaborate tracks without a studio and opening the way for new sampling techniques.

Produced from 2012 and discontinued in (insert date) the MPC Renaissance continues the long legacy first introduced by Roger Linn. At the centre of the MPC Renaissance is the same grid of pads introduced by Roger Linn in (insert date) on the original MPC 60( Link to page)

In addition, the MPC Renaissance also incorporates a grid of 16 rotary encoders which can be mapped to different functions. The MPC Renaissance, also know as the MPC Ren, revolutionised use of the MPC platform by shipping with Software which the MPC would act as a hardware controller, with the main functions of the MPC accessible from a computer, rather than on the hardware itself.

Despite it's computer controller function, the MPC Renaissance also came with an LED strip that for all intents and purposes mimicked the orginal MPC Displays.