By Star One
Fri Oct 31, 2014 2:01 am
I had not seen this anywhere online so figured I would try it myself and it worked, so I'm posting here.
So for those who want their 2500 to look a bit more of the classic Akai MPC's, there was the skin offered by MPC-STUFF, and a couple other sites had them also.
I went with the one from MPC-STUFF. But it just still wasnt looking enough like a 2500. When I was looking at the custom MPC thread, and seen someone had done a custom (fully painted, not skinned) 2500 it had the buttons, everything matching.
That being what I wanted, I wondered if any of the buttons from the 2000XL were interchangeable with the 2500.
Well I found out the key pad buttons are, being that all the other buttons look the same already (except Window) of course which I will get into shortly.
So for me a while back I had replaced my 2KXL buttons with the black ones from MPC-STUFF and kept my old ones in a bag. So today I took off the top case, removed the PCB with the number pad buttons, popped them out, popped the blue keys in, and it worked out great. Nice look too.
By the photos for anyone not firmillar with changing keys, you can see the process is incredibly easy.
Remove the shell, unhook the ribbon cable at the bottom by pulling the two black edges forward (ribbon slides right out with ease), and all the molexs
Remove all the screws holding the PCB down, and lift it off the board. From the bottom side you can push the plastic bottom bits toward each other and they pop right out.
Then from top side, pop the new ones back in
And bosh
Really helps the overall look.
I'm still getting around to doing the window key, which requires shortening the length of the arms that hold the button part out, and flipping it around. I'll post that a bit later.
So for those who want their 2500 to look a bit more of the classic Akai MPC's, there was the skin offered by MPC-STUFF, and a couple other sites had them also.
I went with the one from MPC-STUFF. But it just still wasnt looking enough like a 2500. When I was looking at the custom MPC thread, and seen someone had done a custom (fully painted, not skinned) 2500 it had the buttons, everything matching.
That being what I wanted, I wondered if any of the buttons from the 2000XL were interchangeable with the 2500.
Well I found out the key pad buttons are, being that all the other buttons look the same already (except Window) of course which I will get into shortly.
So for me a while back I had replaced my 2KXL buttons with the black ones from MPC-STUFF and kept my old ones in a bag. So today I took off the top case, removed the PCB with the number pad buttons, popped them out, popped the blue keys in, and it worked out great. Nice look too.
By the photos for anyone not firmillar with changing keys, you can see the process is incredibly easy.
Remove the shell, unhook the ribbon cable at the bottom by pulling the two black edges forward (ribbon slides right out with ease), and all the molexs
Remove all the screws holding the PCB down, and lift it off the board. From the bottom side you can push the plastic bottom bits toward each other and they pop right out.
Then from top side, pop the new ones back in
And bosh
Really helps the overall look.
I'm still getting around to doing the window key, which requires shortening the length of the arms that hold the button part out, and flipping it around. I'll post that a bit later.