It’s genuinely impressive what AKAI is giving away for the fair price of nothing. You also get VST and AU plugin compatibility, and a massive 2 GB sound library to boot. It features eight MIDI tracks, a fully-featured sequencer, 80 effect plugins designed by Air, MPC-style time-stretching, and preconfigured hardware integration with both AKAI and third-party products. MPC Beats is a pretty compelling offering. If ever there was a way to throw your hat in the DAW ring, however, this is it. The thing is, that was always a bit of a puzzling product, as it seemed more like a direct emulation of the OS running on their hardware devices. See also: Free Beat Making SoftwareĪKAI has, of course, previously released its MPC software, which is steadily nearing its third version. I haven’t been outside in a while, is it Christmas already? It’s not every day that a new free DAW is released, let alone one by a company mostly associated with hardware, as is the case with AKAI. AKAI has released MPC Beats, a freeware beginner-friendly software for beat making with VST and AU plugin support.
