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The Akai MPC60 combined pads, sampler and sequencer

Roger Linn designed the 1988 machine around his velocity-sensitive pads Akai worked with drum machine designer Roger Linn on the MPC60, which put sixteen pads, a twelve-bit sampler and a pattern sequencer in one box. Producers could tap in a beat and assign samples without touching a computer. Its descendants shaped hip hop and house production for decades. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Roger Linn designed the 1988 machine around his velocity-sensitive pads. The figure is taken from Sound on Sound, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.