AKAI Professional MPK Mini Plus - 37 Key USB MIDI Keyboard Controller with 8 MPC Pads, Sequencer, MIDI/CV/Gate I/O, and Music Production Software

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The can Joystick assigned to send MIDI pitch bend messages or send MIDI CC messages within your DAW. Whether you want to work in a more old school way with the onboard sequencer or do DAW control and triggering on a computer – or some combination of the two – you’ll find that the Plus makes it easy to do.

The Plus is slightly bigger and heavier than its siblings but that’s not saying much since they are so small. Whether you are on the couch, in the park, or traveling to your next gig, the MPK Mini Play lets you capture those little moments of creation!

No problem: an included Class-compliant USB and 5-pin MIDI connection is available for any compatible device, ensuring your momentary musical genius goes down in writing. Let's open the MIDI/Sync Preferences to ensure that the MPK is enabled as an active MIDI input device. Go mobile without losing control—MPK mini empowers you with all the essentials to capture your ideas and keep your music moving, even when you’re not in the studio. Best of all, the Mini Plus comes bundled with a copy of Akai’s MPC Beats DAW, allowing you to instantly come up with your own creations as soon as your controller arrives at your door. For the first time on any MPK Mini, enjoy dedicated Transport controls for total integration into your DAW.

Another part of the Plus’s evolution over other MPK Mini family members is the inclusion of an internal sequencer to add to the arpeggiator section. Connect to any Class-Compliant USB or 5-pin MIDI device and use the CV/Gate connectors to plug into your rack and other modular synths.

When Track is enabled, this MIDI port will appear in the list of available MIDI Inputs that can be selected in your track's Channel Strip or in Track View. Complete with both USB and MIDI connectivity, using your hardware gear or DAW is as simple as plugging it in. There’s 3 full octaves meaning two-handed chord playing is a reality, plus of course easy transposition as well as scale and chord modes that let you program chords to single notes and also ensure you never play an off-key note. This program is a uni-installer that contains all installers for MPC Beats, the AIR plugins, Sample Packs, and the MPK Editor.

There are also 8 real MPC drum pads, backlit and velocity sensitive that work not only as a creative surface for playing drums but also as program change and other MIDI CC triggers.I'm able to map the knobs to certain parameters on the MPC One like pan and volume for programs, etc.