That's not true, the new line of MPC is riddled with SYSEX. Also the top tier keyboards such as the MPK-249 and 261 send sysex to the mpc for transport controls like play start, play, stop, overdub and record and i assume for the pad-lights as well.
Maybe a malformed message, or perhaps you need to find out what akai's SYSEX messaging structure looks like to interpret how to send the right message.
if you have linux and a usb to 5 pin midi cable you can try it for yourself with this script to see that it does indeed work.
Code: Select all#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 [option]"
echo ""
echo " stop Send's the stop sysex to MPC"
echo " play Send's the play sysex to MPC"
echo " differed-play Send's the differed play sysex to MPC"
echo " forward Send's the forward sysex to MPC"
echo " rewind Send's the rewind sysex to MPC"
echo " record-strobe Send's the record strobe sysex to MPC"
echo " record-exit Send's the record exit sysex to MPC"
echo " record-pause Send's the record pause sysex to MPC"
echo " pause Send's the pause sysex to MPC"
echo " eject Send's the eject sysex to MPC"
echo " chase Send's the chase sysex to MPC"
echo " command-error-reset Send's the command error reset sysex to MPC"
echo " mmc-reset Send's the mmc reset sysex to MPC"
echo ""
exit;
fi
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
case "$1" in
"stop")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0601F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #STOP
;;
"play")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0602F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #PLAY
;;
"differed-play")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0603F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #DIFFERED PLAY
;;
"forward")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0604F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #>>
;;
"rewind")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0605F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #<<
;;
"record-strobe")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0606F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #REC STROBE
;;
"record-exit")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0607F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #REC EXIT
;;
"record-pause")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0608F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #REC PAUSE
;;
"pause")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F0609F7" -p hw:2,0,0 #PAUSE
;;
"eject")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F060AF7" -p hw:2,0,0 #EJECT
;;
"chase")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F060BF7" -p hw:2,0,0 #CHASE
;;
"command-error-reset")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F060CF7" -p hw:2,0,0 #COMMAND ERROR RESET
;;
"mmc-reset")
amidi --send-hex="F07F7F060DF7" -p hw:2,0,0 #MMC RESET
;;
*)
exit
;;
esac
fi;
Ego te absolvo.
