Akai MPC Software 2.0 now available

Akai Professional unleash new creative possibilities with release of high-powered MPC 2.0 software.

Next generation of acclaimed flagship beat-production software introduces a number of powerful new composition and performance features to the Music Production Center experience.

Akai Professional, a leading manufacturer of music equipment for performers and producers, today announced the official release of MPC 2.0. Released after an extensive beta testing period, MPC 2.0 is compatible with Mac and PC, works either alone as your main DAW or integrates seamlessly into your DAW of choice as a VST, AU, AAX plug-in. Sporting a redesigned, easy-to-use interface, MPC 2.0 represents a huge leap forward in the beat-production software category by adding a formidable set of new features including:

• Audio track recording
• Real-time time-stretching and pitch-shifting
• Audio and MIDI drag-and-drop
• Redesigned user interface
• Ableton Link over Wi-FI
• 64-bit audio support
• Bluetooth 4.0 MIDI support
• Advanced signal routing capability – submixes FX returns, multi-output support
• Reimagined mixer layout
• Enhanced Q-Link control

Designed to provide a tactile and immersive hardware-software experience, MPC 2.0 works flawlessly with Akai Professional’s industry-defining MPC line of controllers, as well as the newest standalone units. Supported models are: MPC X, MPC Live, MPC Touch, MPC Studio Black, MPC Renaissance, MPC Studio, MPC Element and the MPK2 line of keyboard controllers.