Using the Akai MPK-25 Controllers with Live

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ansiaaa
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Re: Using the Akai MPK-25 Controllers with Live

Post by ansiaaa » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:57 pm

yur2die4 wrote:Hey, the SL MKII works fine. It's 360 knobs are programmable in both the standard control mode and in Automap.

The problem with the Akai knobs is that they only do one thing, go from one amount to another. If it gets to the max, it does not send any further signal, same as with the minimum. It just halts. You cannot possibly program a relative controller if it stops sending signal after a certain point.

Even better is that these supposed '360' knobs have almost no way of informing you of the min/max other than the display. Blech.
sorry I read somewhere else what I got about the SL MKII, tnx for the correction

apart from that, I've yet to find a MIDI keyboard with faders, endless rotary encoders and good pads alltogether that works well on all these fields. each one has at least one thing that sucks bad... and I'm talking of problems that are so stupid... how can they screw up things like endless rotary encoders, drum pads that works almost like buttons, and so on?

Maxim Caza
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Re: Using the Akai MPK-25 Controllers with Live

Post by Maxim Caza » Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:47 am

Hi everyone.

If you want to use the know as relative mode, just have a look on that thread.
It's seems to be complicated, and maybe, the boring time you would have won't compensate the easy value scaling mode
http://www.vyzor.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1133

Sorry for my english, i'm french..
(nobody's perfect).

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