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By AdamTalbot111 Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:41 am
Hi All,

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

My issue is that I cannot find how to separate the drum pads from the keys on my Akai MPK Mini Keyboard in Cubase elements 7. (I.e. The drum pads play a drum kit sounds and the keyboard plays piano sounds).

I have set up the keyboard so that it is working in Cubase, however the pads and the keys on my midi keyboard play the same instrument ( whichever instrument I am clicked on ).

I am relatively new to Cubase and midi keyboards, so any help you can give me would be great thank you.

Thank you,

Adam
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By peterpiper Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:12 pm
You can set up the MPK within its driver (If you havn't installed it already, download the newest version from AKAI and install it) I just watched a vid on youtube and saw that there are 2 settings called 'PAD MIDI Channel' and 'Keyboard/Knobs MIDI Channel'. Set them to different MIDI Channels. Then you need to create 2 Instrument Tracks in Cubase and set them to the different MIDI channels as well. BTW what PlugIns do you wanna use?


Depending on the MPK you either see this

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peace