The MPC ONE Retro combines the modern standalone workflow of MPC with the iconic look of the legendary MPC 60, MPC 3000 and MPC 2000, delivering a truly timeless music production experience.

Back To The Golden Era
The MPC has always been a pivotal part of contemporary music making. Sample and pattern-based music production has shaped the sound of Hip-Hop, R&B, Dance, and Pop music for decades. The MPC One Retro celebrates this history while continuing to advance innovative standalone music production technology.

Akai MPC ONE is a standalone music production center delivering the performance power of the legendary MPC in a smaller footprint. The MPC ONE packs a lot of features into it's modest size, beat programming, editing, mixing FX, instruments and more - making it the ultimate standalone production experience.

The heart and soul of the MPC One is the same multi-core processor as the MPC X, skillfully combined into a compact standalone desktop unit that easily handles the most demanding tasks. MPC One delivers a truly empowering hands-on experience, ready for any music production task. Edit and chop samples with hand gestures on the bright 7-inch touch screen colour display. Express your ideas effortlessly and directly with the dedicated knobs and touch keys that eliminate cumbersome drop-down menus.

Main features of the Akai MPC ONE Retro include:

MPC Mainstays
With the MPC One, all MPC functionality you expect is here, perfectly positioned with two goals clearly in mind – ease of use and no-nonsense workflow enhancement. Four touch sensitive controls and a large data encoder seamlessly map to critical parameters. Sixteen velocity- and pressure-sensitive RBG pads deliver perfect response for full expressive range. MPC mainstays including Note Repeat, Full Level, 16 Levels and dedicated Transport Controls complete the MPC One’s arsenal of control options, providing complete production capability.

Studio Connectivity
The MPC One is ready to work with your current studio environment and will grow with you as your needs expand. Connect your USB controller or line-level ¼-inch instruments. Control your MIDI devices and your CV/Gate modules & racks. And there’s no need to worry about interconnectivity, since MPC One is ready to work right alongside professional music production gear.

MPC Plugin Instruments
If you don't have any keyboards, MPC One Retro has plenty for you to discover. MPC One Retro includes Bassline, a mono synth, TubeSynth, a polyphonic synthesizer, Electric, a vintage keyboard instrument and DrumSynth, a powerful drum synthesizer, plugins. These instruments include hundreds of presets to quickly provide you with an enormous library of inspiring sounds. Make the presets your own with pages of controls to tweak envelopes, insert effects and more. The MPC Plugin Instruments are powerful sound engines for designing your own collection of new sounds.

MPC Software 2
Akai Professional’s reimagined MPC 2 Software drives MPC One in both standalone and controller modes. This is a cutting-edge production suite combining 128-track sequencing capability, real-time time stretching, clip-launch functionality, advanced MIDI editing capability, VST compatibility in controller mode, operation as a standalone application on Mac & PC, advanced sampling & audio editing/recording functionality, seamless DAW integration, a redesigned GUI and much more. Whether you’re seeking freedom from computer-based music production or searching for the perfect controller for DAW-centric creative exploration, MPC 2 Software delivers the ultimate in adaptive creative versatility.

Splice Integration
Simplify your sample browsing and auditioning with on-board Splice integration in MPC One. Splice Sounds fuels the creativity of producers around the world with millions of high-quality, royalty-free samples, sounds, presets and loops, covering every musical style. With Splice natively embedded in MPC One, you will experience immediate network access to your own Splice library directly from the touch user interface.

Storage & Connectivity
As standard, MPC One ships with 4GB of internal Micro SD storage. Looking to add your own sounds? MPC One features a built-in SD Card slot and USB thumb input for immediate access to your own sample libraries.

New MPC 2.10 Highlights

• 4 New Plugin Instruments: Hype, Solina, Odyssey, and Mellotron
• New AIR Vocal Insert Effect Suite w/ Automatic Vocal Tuning, AIR Doubler and AIR Harmonizer Plugins
• USB Class Compliant Audio Interface Support
• 7 new Insert Effects including Half Speed, Diode Clipper, Stutter and more
• MPC Drum and Keygroup Engine Enhancements including Akai Pro Sample Tail, Dedicated Pitch Envelope, and Keygroup Portamento
• 10 New Drum Pad Effects including Ringmod, Bitcrush, Decimator and more
• New Sample Key Detection