Akai XR20 Beat Production Station

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XR20 Beat Production Station

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XR20 Beat Production Station
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XR20 is a portable beat production center loaded with fresh sound library thats designed for making hip-hop and R&B wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. Over 700 sounds cover standard and electronic drums, one-shot hits, bass, and synth sounds to easily create a total mix in next-to-no time.

XR20 includes reverb, EQ, and compression to enable MC s and producers to complete their tracks. Plug in a microphone and mix vocals with your beats. XR20 runs on wall or battery power so its flexible and portable. In Pattern Play mode, you can trigger different patterns from each pad, so you can tailor the beats to flow with the energy on-stage. Bright blue pads light with the beat to illuminate your performances as you light up the club.

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Easy and intuitive, great drum/ seq machine, 4 of 4 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Moncton, New Brunswick
The easiest introduction to midi and sequencing I've encountered. Good sounds and super easy to make beats /songs and drumkits on. The lighted pads make beat building and correction simple. The layout of the machine is just so intuitive, in a few minutes you'll be making your own beats. I can't recommend this enough, it was my first real drum machine and taught me the basics without any mindbending. Although it says it's a hip hop machine you need to realise most electronic music shares the same/similar sounds to a degree and this covers all the bases to an extent, a very usable set of sounds and enough to branch out into most styles you may be wanting to write in. I use mine so much I worry it'll eventually fail on me(been using since 05), I need to get another as a backup just in case. If you're overwhelmed with gear that's complicated and unintuitive then this is the machine for you. This is a great option and it's longevity is a testament to it's quality and value. No ragrets lol
Posted by S.F. on Feb 11, 2019
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Amazing and easy drum machine 5 of 6 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Toronto (Bloor St.), Ontario
I own this. It's an amazing drum machine. I love it for portability (lightweight, can run on batteries) and ease of use. Basically can't think of another drum machine so easy to learn to use and work with. It is marketed for hip-hop music, but could go for few other genres too (however for rock/metal better get the Alesis drum machines, which are the same but with different drum kits and layout). If interested, go see some Youtube videos. There are lots of tutorials and demos on Youtube, even I did some. Good: Easy to use and learn, great breakbeat/hip-hop samples, some effects. Very flexible on creating your own drum kits and patterns. Super easy to jam with. Pads light with a nice blue light and are very easy to tap on. Very easy to use as an external drum module (on Youtube I show demonstration with my Yamaha drums) Bad: If you want to save your patterns externally for backup, MIDI dump is the only way. Overal: If you cannot afford an MPC, this is your machine. If you want an easy machine - this is your machine again. If you want the ability to use your own or just new recorded samples in a drum machine - better get an MPC or another sampler.
Posted by StrayFeral on Aug 24, 2016
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Awesome beatmaker! 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Toronto (Bloor St.), Ontario
This is an awesome beat station. One thing is it doesn't have USB connectivity but it has l/r mono and phone outs. So you need to record to your computer or a workstation hard drive and then export to computer for mastering etc. The instruction manual is pretty good but YT videos helped. The premise is that you make a song by joining patterns. Typically there are 4 patterns in a song - A (verse), B (chorus), A-fill, and B-fill. You can also introduce variety by muting/unmuting instruments and layers while a song is playing or recording. There is a vast sound library of over 700 sounds and personally this is all I will need for a long time. Thanks L&M
Posted by Jason on Dec 17, 2015
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