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IndustryFoundedas Akai Electric Company Ltd,(1946; 73 years ago ( 1946))Defunct2002HeadquartersJapanProductsequipment(1999–present)(Akai Professional)WebsiteAkai (: 赤井, pronounced ) is a Japanese consumer electronics brand. The company, Akai Electric Company Ltd, was founded in 1946 in, Japan, and defunct in 2002. In took over Akai's Brand, now it is distributing various electronics products such as, and, collaborated with other electronics companies.
On the other hand, in also took over Akai's Brand. It began Akai Professional brand, and is distributing high-end audio electronics products. Contents.Corporate history Akai was founded by Masukichi Akai and his son, Saburo Akai (who died in 1973 ) as Akai Electric Company Ltd. ( 赤井電機株式会社, Akai Denki ), a manufacturer in 1929 or 1946.The company's business eventually became troubled and it left the audio industry in 1991. At its peak in the late 1990s, Akai Holdings employed 100,000 workers and had annual sales of HK$40 billion (US$5.2 billion).
The company filed for insolvency in November 2000, owing creditors US$1.1B. It emerged that ownership of Akai Holdings had somehow passed in 1999 to, a company founded by Akai's chairman. The liquidators claimed that Ting had stolen over US$800m from the company with the assistance of accountants who had tampered with audit documents going back to 1994. Ting was imprisoned for false accounting in 2005, and E&Y paid $200m to settle the negligence case out of court in September 2009.
In a separate lawsuit, a former E&Y partner, Christopher Ho, made a 'substantial payment' to Akai creditors in his role as chairman of Grande Holdings. History Historical products. Tape recorder GX-630DMany Akai products were sold under the name Roberts in the US , as well as A&D in Japan (from 1987 after a partnership with ), Tensai and Transonic Strato in Western Europe.
During the late 1960s, Akai adopted 's technologies (using an extra tape head) to enhance high frequency recording and switched to the increasingly reliable Glass and crystal (X'tal) (GX) ferrite heads a few years later. The company's most popular products were the GX-630D, GX-635D, GX-747/GX-747DBX and GX-77 open-reel recorders (latter featuring an auto-loading function), the three-head, closed-loop GX-F95, GX-90, GX-F91, GX-R99 cassette decks, and the AM-U61, AM-U7 and AM-93 stereo amplifiers.Akai manufactured and badged most of its imported hi-fi products with the brand (named after the Swiss audio and electronics distributor Tensai International. Tensai International was Akai's exclusive distributor for the Swiss and Western European markets until 1988.Akai limited its consumer product line in the United States and Europe towards the end of the 20th century.Introduction of the on-screen display Akai produced consumer (VCR) during the 1980s. The Akai VS-2 was the first VCR with an, originally named the Interactive Monitor System.
By displaying the information directly on the television screen, this innovation eliminated the need for the user to be physically near the VCR to program recording, read the tape counter, or perform other common features. Within a few years, all competing manufacturers had adopted on-screen display technology in their own products.Akai Professional. Akai's portable studio, Akai MG-1214 unitThe first product released by the new subsidiary was the MG1212, a 12 channel, 12 track recorder.
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This innovative device used a special VHS-like cartridge (a MK-20), and was good for 10 minutes of continuous 12 track recording (19 cm per second) or 20 minutes at half speed (9.5 cm per second). One track (14) was permanently dedicated to recording absolute time, and another one for synchronization such as.
Each channel strip included type-1 noise reduction and semi-parametric equalizers (with fixed bandwidths). The unit also had innovations like an electronic 2 bus system, a 12 stereo channel patch bay and auto, among others. The unique transport design and noise reduction gave these units a recording quality rivaling that of more expensive 16 track machines using 1' tape. The MG-1212 was later replaced by the MG-1214, which improved the transport mechanism and overall performance.AX series analog synthesizers. Main articles: andOther early products included the Akai 8-voice analog synthesizer in 1984, followed by and AX73 6-voice analog synthesizers ca.1986.
The AX-60 borrowed many ideas from the, but used voltage controlled analog oscillators (VCO) as a sound source as opposed to Roland's more common digitally controlled analog oscillators (DCO), and also allowed the performer to 'split' the keyboard (using different timbres for different ranges of keys). The AX-60 also had the ability to interface with Akai's early samplers through a serial cable, using 12-bit samples as an additional oscillator. S series digital samplers. Z4The introduction of a 'professional' range of digital samplers began with the 12-bit S900 in 1986, followed by the X7000 keyboard sampler in 1986, and the S700 rack-mount version in 1987. Unlike the single-sample S612, however, they allowed the use of six active samples at once, had a built-in disk drive and could be extended with six individual outputs via cable and a flash memory extension which added another six samples to the memory for multisample playback. The S700/X7000 sampler series were light-grey colored, which didn't change throughout the whole 'professional' range of Akai samplers.The 16-bit followed in 1988. The latter was replaced by the S3000 series in 1992–1995, which notably featured a writeable (on S3000CD) and recording (on S3000i), and was followed by the S5000 and S6000.
Additional releases of note were the Z4 and Z8 24-bit 96 kHz samplers. Main article:Akai also produced several Digital MIDI and such as the range, a line of integrated drum machines, MIDI sequencers, samplers and direct-to-disk recorders.New ownership of Akai Professional In December 1999, one year before the application of to Akai Electric Company Ltd., the brand of its musical instrument division, Akai Professional was acquired by a company of the United States. The new company was dubbed “Akai Professional Musical Instrument Corporation.” ( AKAI professional M.I.) was established in the same year, however it was bankrupted in 2005.In 2004, following a US distribution deal, the Akai Professional Musical Instrument division was acquired by Jack O'Donnell, owner of. In 2012, was formed as a parent company for O'Donnell's companies, including Akai Professional.An Akai Professional product that is somewhat sought after in current times is the model DM13 microphone.
This small, unidirectional unit was originally made for tape recorders, as well as equipment. Today, they can be found in the arsenal of many players due to its high gain and high impedance properties.Current products In early 2003, began undergoing a re-exposure Akai's brands by marketing various audio visual products manufactured. In the same year, Grande began to distribute Akai home appliances such as,.
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Akai Professional entered the electronic musical instrument world in 1984 with one purpose - to give artists the tools they need to express and explore new musical ideas.”, “ In 1999, Akai Professional Musical Instruments Corporation (APMI) was formed. ^ Akai Professional M.I. Entered bankrupt proceedings. (in Japanese). 7 December 2005. Archived from on 12 January 2006.
民間信用調査会社の帝国データバンク横浜支店によると、音響機器製造のアカイプロフェッショナルエムアイ（横浜市都筑区北山田、駿河道生社長、従業員十七人）は七日までに、東京地裁から破産手続き開始決定を受けた。. 同社は一九九九年十二月、赤井電機（東京都）の電子楽器部門のブランドを買収した米国系企業が、製造・販売目的で設立した。Abstract: according to the private credit research company, Yokohama branch, by the 7th (December 2005), Akai Professional M.I. Received a bankruptcy proceedings decision by the Tokyo District Court. Akai Professional M.I. Was established in December 1999 to focus on the manufacture and sale of electronic musical instruments, by a company of the United State who acquired the brand(s) of musical instrument division of Akai Electric Company Ltd. ^. Akai Professional M.I. Archived from on 2012-01-30.
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AKAI Professional M.I. Archived from on 2013-07-28. (archived on HollowSun.com).“ The AX73 was a simple analogue synthesiser based around the Curtis CEM 3394 chips. Internally, the AX60 had the same voice architecture as the AX73 and VX90. Common to all models in the range, however, was a proprietary 13-pin DIN socket that allowed you to connect an S900 for processing through the synths' analogue filters.”. Vintage synth explorer. Tape dec.
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