akai mpk mini Play Mk 3 anyone got one? Want to assign particular sounds in different keys to the pads?

[skidder652003]

I currently use a digitech jam man stereo pedal to play background keys/drones etc with the band.

Unfortunately its a little cumberson and fiddly with my clown shoes feet.

 

So thinking of getting one of those akai mpk mini Play mk 3 keyboards with onboard sounds.

 

Is it possible to assign for example an organ sound in the key of Gminor to one of the pads and then say Cmajor to the next one etc?

 

Thanks

Edited August 30 by skidder652003

[tauzero]

No, you assign a single MIDI note to each pad. It doesn't have built-in sounds, it's just a USB only MIDI controller.

 

You may want to look at the McMillen 12 Step https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/12-step/ - you can assign up to five notes to each key. Again it's just a MIDI controller, and USB only (with an optional expansion box to allow conventional MIDI connections) so you'd need a sound module that can do organ sounds.

[skidder652003]

7 hours ago, tauzero said:

No, you assign a single MIDI note to each pad. It doesn't have built-in sounds, it's just a USB only MIDI controller.

 

You may want to look at the McMillen 12 Step https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/12-step/ - you can assign up to five notes to each key. Again it's just a MIDI controller, and USB only (with an optional expansion box to allow conventional MIDI connections) so you'd need a sound module that can do organ sounds.

Sorry I meant the mpk mini play which does come with inbuilt sounds.

Ammended the titile.

[borntohang]

How long are your drones? If they're shortish samples and you don't need keyboard functions then just get the MPX8 - the only downside is long files (anything over a few seconds) take a long time to load between kits. For short loops and percs, or if you only want 8 samples and don't mind the boot-up time, it's great. 

[skidder652003]

22 hours ago, borntohang said:

How long are your drones? If they're shortish samples and you don't need keyboard functions then just get the MPX8 - the only downside is long files (anything over a few seconds) take a long time to load between kits. For short loops and percs, or if you only want 8 samples and don't mind the boot-up time, it's great. 

Ive gone down the ipad, m vave bluetooth midi switch pedal and an app called dreamfoot, the possibilities are quite exciting.

So far its only cost me £75 for a used ipad mini and £30 for the pedal, the app is free.

Im still experimenting with it and the garageband app togeather but im able to trigger each chord in sequence for the whole song.

Stupidly I started with shine on you crazy diamond which has a stupid amount of chords but its do-able.

The app has a few decent synth/organ sounds but you can blend them with all the garageband synths/sounds as well if you prefer them.

I think I'll create a post with links when Im confident using it at gigs.