Akai Professional’s XR20 Beat Production Station

BDT — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:42:55 +0000

It might not be as orgasmic as playing real drums, but making beats on a drum machine is still a shitload of fun. With Akai’s new XR20, you can even take the shitload of fun on the road. It’s billed as a “portable beat production station” loaded with 700 sounds geared toward R&B and hip-hop beats. Other key features of the XR20 include:

99 preset patterns and 99 user patterns
Backlit LCD
Bright, glowing, backlit pads that follow the beat
Microphone input and headphone output
Pattern Play Mode (different patterns can be triggered from individual pads)
Drum Roll/Note Repeat feature
$499 MSRP

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Akai Professional’s XR20 Beat Production Station