Akai ProfessionalMPX8 - Portable Sample Pad Controller with 8 Performance-Ready Velocity-Sensitive Pads, MIDI Connectivity & On-Board SD Card Slot, black

I'm glad I didn't take those negative reviews to heart as this is absolutely fab little machine.Unlike some I actually read what is says on the tin first so knew what to expect.. Must admit it is quite tricky to upload your first samples but once I got my head around it it's all go. Superb!

Great 909 808 samples in this .I could never get my own samples to load on to card 😂😂⬆️ need a maths or computer degree ..works best triggered from a sequencer or lame sounding drum machine ..

Straight forward easy ready to go mpc anywhere on the go..

I was pleasantly surprised by how solid the construction felt despite not being particularly heavy. Pads responded well and with firmware update - which I don't understand why it's not applied before shipping - worked. That said, there's a step missing. You need to power off the device, hold down the SELECT+ and VOLUME+ then with them held down power on the unit and follow the rest of the instructions. Took me ages to figure that one out.The only things I have against it were the speed it takes to queue up tracks from SD card. Seems to take about 3 seconds per second of audio. Not a huge problem if they stayed in memory but it you accidentally move off the memory card and back to it all the tracks need to requeue, same if the unit gets powered down. Also the MPX8 doesn't appear as an audio device, neither recording to nor transmitting from the device is possible over USB.

Absolutely appalling piece of kit. Package arrived with a EURO plug, not a problem for me as I travel to Italy several times a year, and haveloads of conversion plugs knocking around. Problems started when I tried to upgrade the firmware - I could not get the SD card reader torecognise any card that I used (I think I tried four or five). OK, can't upgrade the firmware (to play files in stereo as opposed to mono), letsee how it works as a sampler - success (I thought), I managed to get a couple of mono files to read from the card (very slowly), shut the thing downfor a few hours, rebooted, the SD card was not recognised anymore. Tried yet another card (correctly formatted by the way) worked untilI shut the sampler down. Wouldn’t recognise the card when I re-booted. The internal samples are OK, but I did purchase this to be able toplay my own samples, so pretty useless to me. Oh, and the AKAI MPX8 application that you download free from the AKAI website isa joke - crashes more often than not. AVOID!

The akia MPX3 is Great for drum tracks and makes the whole thing alot easyer

Very disapointed with this, unreasonably specific file type restrictions, very poor supporting app, samples take a lot of fiddling to work without audio glitches.

dose what it say it dose, and dose it well. on a budget and fits in your handbag.