# Virtual MPC Sample: rehosting Akai MPC Sample firmware in QEMU

> Virtual MPC Sample rehosts Akai MPC Sample 1.3.0.12 firmware in QEMU using a custom lab kernel and a browser panel for the device controls. The repository documents firmware and device architecture, emulates the panel's UART communication and provides a shell, tracing and mod testing against the user's own firmware files.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Firmware · Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/orrpunk-art/virtual-mpc-sample>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/orrpunk-art/virtual-mpc-sample/blob/15f732c71fdd722c924590b9cdec2429f7a1ec2b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/virtual-mpc-sample-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/virtual-mpc-sample-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/virtual-mpc-sample-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires the user's own MPC Sample 1.3.0.12 firmware partitions; the factory library additionally requires the user's own device.
- **Prerequisites:** Requires QEMU 9 or later, Docker for building, Python 3.9 or later and an OpenSSH client.
- **Limits:** USB audio, other firmware versions and a Windows test run remain unfinished.
- **License:** MIT licence, except Linux kernel patches under GPL-2.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/orrpunk-art/virtual-mpc-sample/blob/15f732c71fdd722c924590b9cdec2429f7a1ec2b/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/orrpunk-art/virtual-mpc-sample/blob/15f732c71fdd722c924590b9cdec2429f7a1ec2b/docs/MPC_SAMPLE_VIRTUAL_LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md>

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