Akai MPK88

The Akai Professional MPK88 is a professional performance keyboard controller with MPC production controls.  The MPK88 draws on the design of the popular MPK49, the first keyboard ever to feature MPC pads.  This first-of-its-kind keyboard is ideal for performance, starting with a premium, fully weighted, hammer-action keyboard, adding MPC pads, Q-Link controls, and a selection of MPC technologies.  The MPK88 is born for the stage and is equally at home in the studio.

Creative Input
MPK88 features an 88-key keyboard and 16 genuine MPC pads.  The hammer-action keyboard is fully weighted and features aftertouch for expressive melodic control.  The MPC pads are pressure and velocity-sensitive to capture every nuance of your creative concepts.  The pads can access four banks of sounds, so you have 64 samples at your fingertips with the touch of a button.

The MPK88 places dedicated transport controls within your reach for easy control of some of the most important tracking and editing controls.  The MPK88 has modulation and pitch-bend wheels for expressive musicality, and two assignable footswitch inputs enable you to connect an expression pedal or other continuous controller and a footswitch for momentary controls like patch change or start/stop.