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By Bogman Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:52 am
Hello! I've been using MPC Beats since release, with my Akai MPK261. It's been smooth and fun to learn, and became my first choice to make beats.

There's only one thing however that's been grinding my gears: the pads on my hardware won't change it's colors according to the colors on screen. I'd rather have them properly matched, after all I need to visualize where stuff is, obviously. But it's just not practical: It would force me to manually get to the MPK's settings and slooowly change the color of each pad, EVERY TIME the pads change colors on the app!

It's SO frustrating, especially considering my MPK has all those RGB colors in the app. Plus, my pads match colors even on Ableton Live - after I tweaked some stuff there. On MPC Beats, there's apparently nothing I can do... Why can't my colors match Akai's own software?

If anyone here has a solution, please let me know. Thanks in advance!
By Bogman Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:58 pm
The Ken wrote:Do they really? Please explain.


Watch this video and you'll learn to match every color in Ableton Live with your pads, you can even make them display a light show just for fun!

If you ever find out how to match colors on MPC Beats, please remember to reply to this thread!