Akai Pro MPC X demonstrated at Musikmesse 2017 is another new unit to fit the cult MPC line which was started by the leading manufacturer Akai Professional leaving each and every producer and electronic musician happy with its products. Akai Pro MPC X was devised with regard to the classic MPC operating layout but the developers also paid attention to the flaws and did their best.

Christmas and New Year are coming, shops are anxious to sell their goods, consumers expect gifts and freebies. There’s one very generous shop in Brooklyn which offers goods for such prices that you’ll find yourself happy and canny for sure even if you go through all the costly customs and delivery procedures. You’ll never catch them quietly rising prices in order to surprise you with a phony “sale” a few months later. They offer real deals you won’t be able to resist.

When companies equip their cult instruments with a professional keyboard and at least the basic controller set featuring their brand parameters they can easily entice any modular system die-hard fan as well as any touring musician. They don’t aim at the target audience they literally shoot each and every one who’s ever been into professional music. We’ll review the coolest stage synthesizers which used to shake the market and keep on doing it right now - Roland Jupiter-80, Radikal Technologies Accelerator, Access Virus Total Integration 2, Clavia Nord Stage 2EX, Kurzweil PC3A and even that marvelous beast John Bowen Synth Design Solaris!

As professionals move up to the top the instruments surpass each other in quality and money – that’s what Tyros5 did to PSR-S970, and that’s what Korg does to us when we get to the new level and become happy to face Pa4X. Anyway the models which happened to land on the middle of prestige are not so easy – they’re priced at about $2000, read and learn how you can get what you need for the money you agree to pay for an arranger. Roland offers its BK-9 model as a backing keyboard since there are no top arrangers by Roland available on the market. Ketron, a famous Italian company, has nothing to do with this Japanese quality/quantity racing leaving them busy with each other – the Italian engineers are absolutely into their own point of view: they offer a different kind of arranger featuring their own multimedia specs.

Yamaha, Korg and Kurzweil have always been the implacable workstation enemies. And all because of the irrecusable fact that the comparative analysis is something time-consuming and completely ineffective here – all the three companies offer unique systems and technologies that’s why you may prefer one to another only if you happened to buy it first and had enough time to get used to it – why switch sides and become a fan of another brand? Any of the workstations presented here would definitely satisfy a customer – whatever he chooses.