Support and chat about Akai's range of MIDI controllers, including the MPD. MPK and LPD
By giorgioblues Fri Oct 24, 2014 2:08 pm
Hey everyone, maybe someone can help me out. So there is one thing I really want to learn on my mpk mini, but on two different platforms.
Thing I want to learn is: How do I set up the mpk mini mk2 to play 2 banks of drums on my drumpads (I'm able to do this in reason, reaper, essentials) and play different synths (with a relative ease of switching synths) on the keys part (I'm able to do this too) AT THE SAME TIME (that's the thing I can't figure out).
So I would performe live on stage, have 2x8 drum sounds loaded so I can switch between sound with A/B button, and play them on the drum pads, and have a few synths loaded and be able to switch between them relatively easily, and play a synth on the keys and the drums on the pads at the same time.
This is what I want to learn how to.
BUT if it's possible, I'd really like to learn to do it on my laptop and on my android tablet too.
So if I would like to do the above mentioned tasks, how would I do it on my laptop pc (windows 7, core i3, 4gb ram), what program would be the best? I have some knowledge of reason, reaper, and have the mpc essentials software, but I'm considering looking into Ableton Live or Fl studio. Which daw would be the easiest to set up like this? (maybe if someone has a tutorial video about this, that would be nice)
And what if i want to do the same on an android tablet (it's a quite good one, with kitkat, 2 gig ram, otg, a rockchip rk3188 quad core processor)? What app could I use, and how? (again if there's a tutorial it would be great) Or if it's not possible to do that simultaneously on android, what's the best quality app for android, to play live drums and synths via midi controller, and switch between them easily?
Mayor thanks for anyone who can help me out with this! :)
By syuzhet Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:29 am
(I know this is an old thread but someone else might be interested if not the OP):

I was doing this in Reaper last night, using the older mpk mini. I had two tracks, each with the input set to midi>mpk mini and each set to monitor to the output (my ZED10fx). For the first track (drums), I set the 'FX' to Poise, which is a simple VST for setting up virtual drum kits. In Poise I configured the first 8 pads to be individual drum samples, and by using 'Learning mode' assigned each of the 8 mpk pads (you have to be using a mpk mini preset that sends a different musical note for each pad otherwise all pads will trigger the same sample- use the mpk mini preset editor to configure this). For the second track, I set the 'FX' to be Garritan aria, and selected an instrument (double bass). Using the keys on the keyboard triggered the double bass, using the pads triggered drums. I'm sure you could assign different instruments to say, different octaves and select between them that way. Or maybe keep a drumpad free to trigger a switch of synths.