Spitfire Audio and Akai Professional have released two new sound libraries for MPC: Originals Intimate Strings MPC Edition and Originals Cinematic Pads MPC Edition. The release marks the next step in the companies’ partnership, which was first announced at NAMM 2026.
Both libraries bring Spitfire’s composer-friendly sounds directly into the MPC workflow, where they can be played from pads and controllers without moving back and forth between separate software.
Spitfire Audio is best known for high-end sample libraries used by composers, producers, and film scorers. The MPC, meanwhile, remains one of the defining tools of sample-based music, beatmaking, and standalone production. Putting Spitfire’s strings and cinematic textures inside that ecosystem turns the MPC into more of a compact scoring workstation.
Originals Intimate Strings MPC Edition features 25 London string players recorded at AIR Studios, with close and tree mic signals, expression and dynamics controls, and built-in reverb. Originals Cinematic Pads MPC Edition includes 23 evolving pad presets built from orchestral sources, synth elements, and processed textures, with controls for reverb, attack, release, distortion, and tonal shaping.
“Akai Professional gear has been with me for most of my music career,” Spitfire Audio founder Paul Thomson said in a statement. “I even started out writing orchestral drama underscores on an MPC60.”
The libraries are compatible with MPC OS 3.7.1 and are available now.