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When akai professional announced a software daw that thought like an mpc back in 2012, the electronicmusicproduction world went nuts. The immediate success of the mpc studio and the mpc renaissance paved the way for the next generation of standalone mpcs and the mpc 2. Akai mpc 2500 outer case panel casing kit w front panel. Akai professional the next generation of standalone mpcs.
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It also features a semiautomatic slicing tool to chop loops into slices. It features a 32 voice drumphrase sampler with up to 128mb ram and extensive editing. An mpc operating system mpc os is the software that actually runs. The unit comes with a 128mb compact flash card filled with custom formatted drum samples for the mpc 2500. Its also a pretty handy sequencer, and can be hooked up as a master or a slave to other midi equipment.
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