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Akai Professional, one of the world's most influential manufacturers of music production gear and creator of the legendary MPC. Harnessing the power of advancing technology, Akai Professional's production tools remain staples of modern music both in the studio and on stage.

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  • USA & Canada 401-658-5771.
  • Germany +49 2102 7402 20150.
  • UK +44 (0) 1252 896040.
  • Brazil +5511 - 3222-6656.
  • Japan +81 3 6277 2231.

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Latest reviews of AKAI products

Tim Kelley Vol. 1

Reviewed By timmelody [all]
November 25th, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Mac

LOVE THIS TIM KELLEY VOL 1 CAN'T WAKE FOR VOL 2.

GREAT EXPANSION Pack THANK YOU KVR AUDIO.

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MPC Software (DAW)

Reviewed By adollseye [all]
July 5th, 2023
Version reviewed: 2.12.1 on Windows

A must for ALL producers wanting to create their own beats. Or take a sample and alter it to your liking. MPC 2 is a must have tool.

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VIP (Virtual Instrument Player)

Reviewed By trusampler [all]
November 11th, 2020
Version reviewed: latest on Mac

The software had so much potential but, Akai is company known for taking a good idea and completely destroying it with poor behaviors in development. Sad to see them ruin yet another product.

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VIP (Virtual Instrument Player)

Reviewed By CptanPanic [all]
March 28th, 2020
Version reviewed: 3.1.1 on Windows

Good idea in theory, but has some limitations. Doesn't load presets from a lot of plugins, and no way to figure out why. Also can only have 2 plugin directories. Hasn't been updated in a few years also.

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VIP (Virtual Instrument Player)

Reviewed By Psalmist91 [all]
June 24th, 2018
Version reviewed: 3.1 on Windows

VIP by Akai is a tremendous idea, being implemented increasingly well. Now it's up to version 3.1. Coolest yet -- it's available for usage beyond just the 3 original InMusic brand keyboards (Akai Advance, M-Audio CTRL-49 and Alesis' offering). Think of it as an advanced Browser & Mixer combo that allows you to preview, control, layer, and mix among multiple soft-synths and also supplement them with your favorite VST2 effects. Easy to find optimal patches. Easy to layer ginormous sounds. Useful in stand alone mode. Also integratabtle into DAWs. I'm still learning to play with it, mainly within Samplitude.

Trying it out both with an Akai Advance (seamless, but quirky) and with a Novation SL49 Mkii (usable, but not seamless, and the knobs seem to work backwards and don't automatically correspond to onscreen knobs). The Win10 software is still inconsistent. I've had some crashes and some disconnects between the Akai keyboard and the VIP software.

The concept is AWESOME. Seems there are still bugs to be worked out. Haven't yet tried the Mac version. The software package is nice. I already had 3 of the main players from PIB, so not quite the value for me as someone getting the entire SW package of synths and effects included. At this $100 off, the SW is a no-brainer. Akai has invited other manufacturers to now do their own routing (more like NKS), so that should expand the number of synths and manufacturers who embrace VIP.

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VIP (Virtual Instrument Player)

Reviewed By frareinif [all]
September 27th, 2017
Version reviewed: 3.1.1 on Windows

Just bought that, sounds promising... crashes on scanning the plugin dirs, crashes on loading the plugin maps, crashes on selecting a patch (on a WIN 7 x64).... Wrote to support, let's wait and see.

EDIT: the nice guys @ (whereever I had bought it some months ago) gave back the money since I was not able to make it work... last week I bought a CODE25, so I got VIP3.1 for free... updating to 3.1.1... it still sucks! The Standalone stops scanning, offers a window to report a bug, and on sending the report it says, that sending the report failed! Opening the VIP plugin in Reaper, 2 clicks on the plugins GUI, and Reaper crashes... do not buy.

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