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Many Akai devices will soon support Native Instruments sound packs
Akai has teamed up with long-time rival Native Instruments. NI sound packs will soon be available on Akai standalone MPC devices.
These long-time rivals offer many similar products, but some musicians get drawn to Akai’s MPC workflow while others choose NI’s Maschine platform. This means that if you currently use an MPC Live II or a Key 61, or any other number of standalone music-making machines by Akai, you’ll be able to pull up legit Native Instruments sounds for your tracks. Linn, who also invented modern digital music-making concepts like swing and quantization, heaped praise on newer MPC devices, as the platform has come a long way since the MPC60 in 1988.
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