Urban Instruments

Expansions

Pad Thai Deluxe features the cream of the crop taken from Marco Polo's highly acclaimed and internationally known" Pad Thai" drum kit series. Known for having some of the hardest and dustiest drums in the game, Marco Polo has spent years digging for records and applying that same approach to assembling his drum kits. Marco has produced for some of the greats in Hip Hop such as Rakim, Scarface, Masta Ace, Pharoahe Monch, Westode Gunn & Talib Kweli too name a few. This is essentially Pad thai on steroids! 24 brand new fully composed beats/pgms including musical, bass and drum elements to get your beats knocking with minimal effort. A mixture of laid back vibes to the dirt and grit of Brooklyn, New York where Marco calls home. Use the presents and demos to catch your own vibe or guide you on a new musical journey. These sounds are ready to rock RAW with minimal processing. Punch, thump and dirt is the name of the game here. Whether it's one shots or chopped original breakbeats. This kit has you covered for the inspiration to produce any modern or old school Hip Hop vibe. Be sure to check out Marco Polo's YouTube series "MP On The MP" season 1 for a deeper look into using pad thai in his production process! MP has taken his MPC 2000 Xl workflow/approach to new levels in the modern Akai world and we're excited for you to hear this brand new kit that will definitely change the game.

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STEP INSIDE THE SOUND MAZE OF “LABYRINTH”AKAI Pro & Multi-Platinum Producer, Grammy Winning Engineer “Snipe Young” brings his first Instrument Expansion to the Akai MPC/Force platform “LABYRINTH” delivering a collection of inspirational Lo-Fi sound design ready for you to drop over your beats and productions.  Labyrinth will take you inside a maze of Hypnotic Pads mangled with ambient dust, deep bass mechanical Lo-Fi textures, Space Plucks bringing a hazy of darkness.Snipe Young has produced and designed sounds for many of the top artists as processed each sampled instrument through a deep chain of high-end outboard to transform your productions at the highest level. 

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From futuristic sound design to downtempo beats, award-winning producer Jamie Wilder transforms unique musical ingredients into new sonic delicacies for your MPC. Drawing on his background as a multi-instrumentalist, Jamie synthesizes a broad palette of timbres, tones, and genres into distinct creations that stand out in the mix. Found across the worlds of film and television, Jamie’s work has been featured on BBC Channel 4 and hit Netflix series Emily in Paris as well as ads for Nike, Lexus, and the best-selling Valorant video game.  The “Lo-Fi Breeze” MPC Expansion brings together a hand-curated selection of atmospheric samples and drums to build your own ethereal world of vibe. Warm snare rattles, radiating electric piano, and jangling percussion are all hanging like regulars at your favorite coffee shop, fusing the worlds of jazz and chill-hop into a future state of aural nostalgia. Explore 24 MPC-ready drum kits, 100 MPC Clips, and nearly 500 samples to add a breath of Lo-Fi Breeze to your creativity.  Lo-Fi Breeze is included with MPC Live III and MPC XL Pack Contents       25 MPC-Ready Drum Kits      1 Full MPC Project      100 MPC Clips       25 Audio Previews      481 Samples   

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Akai Professional and 12 Bit Soul/Divided Souls invite you to 'The After Party' MPC Expansion. Inspired by the iconic sounds of Andre Harrell, DeVante Swing, Teddy Riley, Eddie F., Kyle West, Puff Daddy, to H-Town and many other classic 90s RnB producers and artists! This new MPC Expansion is more than a homage to that era, but simultaneously looks back while moving forward. Packed with 40 x MPC-ready constructed Drum kits packed with 90s warm, punchy kicks, Crispy Snares, Claps and Rims to silky RnB melodics created from classic analogue synths of the era! Also included are 24 x MPC Keygroups carefully created and processed using the finest outboard gear, delivering smooth leads, pads, and basses with a deep rich tone while sprinkling in a few that carry otherworldly vibes. This time out.......12 Bit Soul completed a final mix on our drums -one-shots and loops- using high-end outboard and their very own AMPlify™ plug-in to give it that extra vintage punch. We provide the paint; how the painting is created is now up to you! Some of the gear used for this project: Avalon U5 DI and Preamp, Neve 511 Mic Preamp, dbx 560A Compressor/Limiter, SSL Outboard Processor, Eventide H7600 Multi-effects Processor, Moog Little Phatty, TX81Z,Poly-800, D-50, Jupiter-8, Juno-106, JD-800