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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about MPC Sample.

This brand new toy aisle version of the iconic beat making cash register can be considered to be Akai’s return to the minimalist workflows and aesthetics of first-gen MPCs which - funnily enough - makes it look like it was made by Teenage Engineering.


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Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:43 Overview MPC Sample
01:47 Main Limitations
02:04 Sound Design Tools
02:40 Time Stretch, Resampling, Chop
02:50 Effects
02:19 Is it like an old MPC???
03:11 What else??? (Hardware, Pricing, Thanks,...)
04:13H*te Screen
04:43 Jam 1 ( House )
05:39 Jam 2 ( Downtempo )
06:40 Finale ( Synthwave )
07:10 VERDICT