Akai MPD 218 Midi Controller - Review

- Make Beats anywhere
- 16 MPC Pads
- Comes with Ableton lite live and MPC Beats
- Works with any music program
- Awesome tool for making beats

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[boomboombaby]

I was considering buying this and decided to pull out my old mpc element and it worked 🤯

[jonathanpork-sausage]

Nice simple review. As a relative beginner who is not happy just clicking in notes on daw but likes to start by playing stuff, this seems ideal and nicely separate from my main keyboard controller (ARTURIA)

[OsapWorld]

I know you said it is plug and play. Will I need to buy a separate port in order for the cable to fit on a Mac? Max doesn’t have USB-C. Will in my case it doesn’t

[HowYouMove]

I just ordered one today from Amazon & I also have a MacBook Pro I am a beginner & I have a M-Audio Midi controller that has a 5 Pin MIDI out & I had just ordered a Roland JV-1080 Midi Sound module that has the MIDI IN & MIDI out & I want to start off using Ableton because according to the reviews it is better then Garage Band & MPC Beats

[cretaceostrapulazza]

Can you set a given sound into a tap and make it go all the way by itself by clicking it?

[LFiers]

What's the sensitivity of the pads like? Is it ir easy to trigger or or do you have to hit it hard?

[tarkanyilmaz]

Plug and play you men you can plug ot in an active speaker and play? I need something like this without needing a computer to plug it in.

[a.philip]

Can we plug into any computer or only on MacBook? Can it be connected with an audio interface and be played?

[rinnegana.k.apurpleshariga]

You know the product is good when people are buying it 10 years later

[kirkwilliams]

Can you connect this to an Alturia Mini Freak

[filip]

I'm trying to record drums but I don't know how, help me please?

[SeptemberRain]

Does the AKAI Professional MPD218 use a USB C or USB A? connector?

[davidscott]

Thank you for the video. I am a total newbie. I am think about FL Studio. Will this controller work with FL? Also, I noticed that there isn't a 16 level feature on this controller. Not being a keyboard player, is there any work around, where you can have a single bass note across all 16 pads to play basslines? I appreciate any help. Thank you

[Syrenix]

We ordered this drum machine from Amazon and downloaded 3 programs tonight trying to get it to work.. we are amateurs but thought it would be alot easier. After about 4 hours and only getting it to make a keyboard noise on the laptop despite pressing on drums weve given up for tonight. Apart from being amateurs what are we doing wrong? ... definitely 'plug and play' isn't happening for us..any advice appreciated.. xxx

[MickeySouljahOfficial]

I have a question. I am using garage band as well. The sounds are the one you export from garage band or the machine has sounds itself? I ask because i would like yo have more drum sounds since there s not many differnt in garage band.

[HowYouMove]

Will it work with a android Tablet? cause I have a fully loaded MacBook Pro Mid 2012 but I want to be able to Travel lite with my Samsung A7 Tablet & the MPD218 besides I heard that Ableton Live lite is better then the MPC Beats software & it’s easier to use. But I still plan to buy the MPC One Gold soon as my main toy

hi, it can be switch off without unplug?