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I didn't saw your post.

Yeah I think there will be no knobs automatic mapping until native support. I hope it will come with next release

The MPK mini editor is a bit confusing and I can't find this PDF on my Mac ! Only when I read the Cd on windows ?!?

Cheers,

Nico

Okay,

Back home.

So Cmd + m get you on the Midi assignation screen. First choose the program 1 on MPK Mini. Then click on the command you want to assign, then turn the knob on the MPK you want to assign and it's done. You will have a little icon on the command indicating 1/? (1 being program 1 and ...

I played a bit more with it yesterday and you can actually have the 4 programs for knobs too ! The 4 program knobs can either control all the same instrument/effect or you can map only two knobs to instrument 1, 2 others in the same program to a different inst/eff.

In the template only program 1 as ...

Hi,

newbie too :) Got my MPK mini last week and Ableton Live the week before !

I have no problems with the knobs... I just mapped it in the midi screen, and it worked well. However I just found the way to map the knobs to one particular instrument, It don't seems to map automatically to the ...

Thank you !

I found the document and it seems very exciting of controlling all the keyboards and effects with the knobs automatically assigned.

Let's hope the guy didn't sold it already

Cheers !

Hi,

Thanks to all the good advices on this forum, I made the plunge and bought Ableton Suite :)

I ordered an Akai MPK Mini for working on remote, but after one week of toying around with the soft, I think I will need a more serious controller for working at home.

I leave in a remote area and don ...

Live 9 is maybe not so far away ! From this morning, my favourite shop is offering 30% discount on Live Suite 8 Thanks to people who advised me to begin with the trial version ! I would have miss this good deal for just a few days otherwise ! Waiting for the postman, now

Thanks for sharing your experience, Peter ! It's just what I needed to get started :) Now I am quite confident in buying the boxed suite after the trial, ouch for my bank account :) Without asking here I wouldn't have even get the trial suite, thinking that Live alone will not be easy to explore in ...

:D Piracy was good when I was 15 and copying Spectrum games !

I can proudly say that I paid for every single piece of music in my library and even twice as I have CD and vinyl of same album... Well I have some bootlegs, but I don't consider it as pirate as there were never legally issued.

On ...

Hi,

I finally ordered the Akai MPK Mini, as having pads and keys with just one USB seemed more attractive...

Grrr. I will have to wait a few more days before Akai release this little wonder and start my Ableton initiation

Thanks a lot for all the good inputs I received here !

Nico

Peter & Darkmelody,

Thanks for spending some time to give me these good insights !

I've read some magazines and forums, but I find it's a bit difficult to find out what you need to begin ! From your posts what I understood is that maybe electronic music is the opposite of traditional music playing ...

Hi,

I am in Switzerland :)

Good suggestion, thanks ! I just checked our local Ebay and there is one shop offering one APC40 for around $500 and in the description, it said it comes with a coupon for a free download of a patch for full version !!! So it seems to be the same kind of deal...

I will ...

As the the apc, it really makes using live a whole lot more fun. So if you like live, get the apc40 and live lite first. Upgrades can come later, as I'm sure you will probably buy more gear as you go along your music venture.

I watched a video and for sure APC seems a lot of fun ! And the APC can ...

suite just comes with all the sounds, drum hits etc and samples. actual features are no different.

Ok I thought that the Sampler only came with the suite and that was something useful to what I would like to do. Anyway I saw that you have plenty options to upgrade later without loosing too much ...

Good advice, thanks ! I will buy the LPK25 that I think I can't go without and get the free version for 30 days first. Should I try the suite or will it be just too much at once to start with ?