akai professional mpc studio drum midi controller

The problem stems from the default MIDI note mapping found in ‘legacy’ MPC ‘DRUM’ programs (this is the default type of program used for building drum kits). The Crazy MIDI Layout For Legacy DRUM Programs However, the entire ‘factory library’ within all MPC models (and most third party MPC kits) still all use the old legacy MIDI layout, so it’s still worth understanding the issues at play here. Important: In the recent MPC 2.11 update, Akai has changed the default MIDI note layout for DRuM programs to the ‘Chromatic C1’ layout I recommended in this article. So why is this happening and how can we fix this? One thing they are quickly discovering is that while keyboards work really well for plugins and keygroup programs, they might experience a strange mapping issue when playing MPC ‘DRUM’ program using their keyboard.

Updated for MPC 2.11! These days a lot of MPC users are attaching MIDI keyboards to their MPCs, which are perfect for playing expressive, multi-octave instrument parts.

Akai professional mpc studio drum midi controller