An update to the classic 1988 MPC drum machine sampler, reflecting the present day movement towards enabling live electronic music performance by way of finger drumming and controllerism, today’s standalone Akai MPC Live is a Lithion battery powered affair specifically meant for stages , DJ booths and plane journeys
Finger drums on steroids: the Novation Launchpad brought a 64 button grid into popular usage
Some of my improvisations on the Ableton Push
Tessa Lizz performing some finger drumming wizardry on a Native Instruments Maschine
Jeremy Ellis playlists of finger drum rudimentary tutorials
Shared by an ever-growing list of new instruments the standard note layout of the Push, the Launchpad, the Lightpad, the Linnstrument, and many others, is the same as string instruments, “5V:1H”, five semitones vertically, 1 semitone horizontally, which is an isomorphic, and transpositionally invariant layout aiding in the learning of music
Highlighting a G major scale (with natural 4th), going up in broken major and minor thirds diagonally
A C major chord voicing
A c minor chord voicing
An F dominant chord voicing
The Linnstrument
The ROLI Lightpad Block
The Lightpad being played quite brilliantly