AKAI Mpk49 Keyboard has no inbuilt sounds - it's just a controller - it is overpriced and it breaks at the first chance it gets.
Whats that acronym APOK? that's what AKAI told me to do ( APPOFKS OFF or summat) when I asked the incredibly aggressive "no never heard of this ever ever ever happening before" "you are the first ever ever ever case of this happening" angry man on the customer service help line. Oh Yeah? It's all over the AKAI guys own message boards AKAI mpc-forums.comand still he said I was the first case - what rubbish we put up with.
As Victor Meldrew said - I don't believe it.
A genius of the heart called Maeve Binchy died at age 72 - I used to love reading her columns on Saturday morning in the Irish Times.
The Music Business the arts and eating crumbs.
I really like Bob Lefsetz. http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ is his Blog I read and like it a lot. Here is an interesting article about how diffic it is to be an artist and the link with the squashing downwards that is taking place in USA today. Basically saying in his articles that music does not support the musician either as a starter offer or as a professional. So then what's next for music? Its a powerful medium where rich trust fund kids can go to starving producers to create and large conglomerates pump out disturbing pop but the new guys don't even get the crumbs.