When I think of NPCs, I think iconic, I think legendary, I think classic. Just one of my favorite things to use when I produce music. My name is Melissa Reese. I am a lot of things. I'm a singer. I play keys. I'm a producer. I'm a composer. I score a film. Video games. I also play keys and sing backgrounds for guns and roses. I'm pretty hybridized as a composer and a producer. I have a lot of different influences. I grew up and I came up studying classical. I studied jazz. I've got into producing pop. And I feel like I draw from all of those things. All of those different genres when I produce and when I compose for a specific thing. So I've had a 4000, a 3000, and a 60. And I've always loved the machines for their feel and for their workflow and just for the classic sound that they all have as individual machines. The NPC Live is an amazing piece of gear. It's really taken the idea of the NPC and brought it into this rad hybrid vibe, adding new features like the touchscreen and the portability now of the live, which is insane for somebody like me who's always producing on the go and is on tour now. It's really a serious force to be recognized in terms of production tools. You know, you could take this being like wherever you're feeling inspiration and I think that that is a huge, huge advantage because as we all know, music comes to you when it wants to. My name is Melissa Reese and I just took the Akai stand alone challenge. With this particular track, I actually had taken a track that I had composed for a film score and chopped it up and used the MP as a remix tool as well as took some other elements and fed those in. So I kind of hybridized what the challenge has been up until this point.