The MPC500 is the first portable MPC of its kind, developed and fabricated by Akai Professional in Tokyo Japan. This portable hardware machine will let you create and sample music whenever inspiration guests you. Its great advantage is that it is portable and made for the nomad producer, letting you take it and use it wherever creativity strikes you. Taking the MPC500 with you in your backpack along with your laptop can enable you the possibility to produce in any space. Beats and productions made on the MPC500 can be transported to your computer via USB or on to a CF card to download when you get back into the studio.