This new rendering from the firmware 2.10 code clearly shows that Akai Professional is working on a keyboard MPC. Unfortunately, the rendering is still very unclear, which makes reading I/Os impossible. The upper labels on the interface indicate that the keyboard version of the MPC also has numerous inputs and outputs. Classic transport buttons (record, play, pause, etc.) are on the right side. Then there is a data encoder and other shortcuts. Similar to the MPC One, MPC Live II … Right next to the display, there are four Q-Link controllers The center of the keyboard occupies a display, probably a touch display with which you can swipe through the menus. These will probably be of the same level as those from the rest of the MPC products. Moving away from the keyboard to the upper part, you can see many shortcuts buttons, a touch strip (black), as well as an MPC-style 4×4 pad matrix.

If you trust the render, it will have 61 keys, pitch & mod wheel, and probably velocity & aftertouch support.

From Force 6 to MPC Key 61 which suggests that the keyboard is probably based on the matured MPC software. The new render shows what this is about a little more clearly. The same FB group also found a render file in the firmware that let the keyboard sampler alarm sirens ring. Last Tuesday, Akai Pro released the MPC 2.10 firmware. So a kind of keyboard workstation packed with synthesizers, drum engines, sampling, and more. The picture gave us clues that Akai Pro is currently working on a keyboard version on which probably the MPC software runs. This picture was found in the firmware 2.9 code by an MPC & Force hacker/modifier group on Facebook. MPC firmware 2.10 not only contains new synths, effects … but also hints that Akai Pro is working on an MPC Key 61 keyboard sampler workstation.Īt the beginning of February, I already reported a leak on a possible Akai Pro MPC keyboard with the name Force 6.

Akai mpc with keyboard