First news from NAMM is trickling in. Akai has announced a new version of their APC line with the APC20. This is essentially half of the previously released APC40 from last year. The new APC20 features everything but some send effects, additional knobs and the crossfader from its older brother.
From the press online it [...]

Well it looks like Akai is diving deeper and deeper into the synthesizer realm after release of the synth engine on their Akai MPC 5000. Announced as Musikmesse today is their new small keyboard called the Miniak, which I presume is designed to compete with the Alesis Micron and the Korg Microkorg. In fact the [...]