Akai iMPC Pro Now Available

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Akai Professional has announced the availability of the iMPC Pro app for iPad.

iMPC Pro re-imagines the classic music production center as an iPad app – offering 64 tracks for composing, editing and mixing music. It offers most of the features of classic MPCs and adds new features that the iPad makes possible, including: touch-based sample editing, a new timeline view, Inter-App Audio and social sharing.

Akai iMPC Pro Intro Video:

Features:

• Sample audio from the iPad microphone, line-in, or your music library using the multi-touch turntable interface

• 64 tracks for flexible multi-tracking recording and production

• Sample Editor with undo history for slicing, chopping, trimming, and categorizing your loops and samples

• New Timeline View opens a multi-touch gestural editor for sequencing, recording, and editing

• New Flux mode lets you warp and glitch your beats in real-time or with automation

• Precision Knobs expand on command for precisely dialing in parameters

• 3D-performance mode lets your perform with your iPad’s accelerometer

• Turbo Duck effect fattens up your tracks with sidechain compression

• Sound library featuring 1,200+ samples from sound designer Richard Devine

• Improved sampling workflow with re-sampling and sample library organization

• 16 Levels mode with attack, velocity, length, and tuning settings for quickly creating variations of your sounds

• Note Variation slider lets you adjust attack, velocity, length, and tuning as you play

• Onboard effects include delay, bit crusher, and master compressor/limiter

• Live Sequence queuing for real-time performance and playback

• Time correct: 1/8 note – 1/32T with variable swing

• MPC Note Repeat featuring 1/8 note – 1/32T timing with latch

• Supports Inter-App Audio in iOS7 for sampling from your other music apps

• AudioCopy and AudioPaste for copying/pasting beats and sequences from compatible apps

• Seamless integration with Retronym’s Tabletop app for iPad, a modular audio environment

• Export tracks to MPC Software for use with MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio

• Works with MPC Element via the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit (sold separately)

• Supports WIST, wireless Sync Start protocol from Korg

• Community sharing built-in: directly upload to SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or export to your computer

• iOS support for simple drag-and-drop, plucking, and multi-touch music gestures

• Interactive gesture control for automation, mixing, and effects

Here’s a playlist of tutorials for iMPC Pro:

iMPC Pro is available now in the App Store with a price tag of $19.99 USD. See the Akai Pro site for more info.

Source: synthtopia.com