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Studio is Akai’s next‑generation hybrid MPC, a pure controller that acts as a hardware front end to the MPC desktop software and plug‑in.

This may have been an effective gateway drug strategy: if you’ve been hooked into MPC as a plug‑in, the natural next step would be to add a dedicated hardware controller. More recently, a very capable free version of the MPC software, dubbed MPC Beats, has brought new users to the MPC platform. The MPC has reclaimed a lot of lost ground in the last four years, thanks to the excellent standalone workstations, MPC X and Live. The MPC Studio provides an affordable middle ground between Akai’s software and hardware MPCs.