Akai MPD24 and Ableton Live 8? Anyone got this working
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Akai MPD24 and Ableton Live 8? Anyone got this working Posted on: 01.07.2011 by Spencer Kilcoyne I've finally found a bit of time to get my head around Ableton, and to try to get my Midi controllers working with it. The Oxygen 8 was easy to do, but I can't seem to get the MPD working ... I'm currently only using one at a time so it shouldn't be a device clash. There seem to be some interned community rumours of a need to upgrade the MPD24 firmware to 1.10 as there was some strangeness as to the messages being sent out? A little help? | |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 18.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by Alessandro Savage
2) Firmware is 1.10, I flashed it last evening from my wife's XP machine, as I was having issues with USB midi ports on my Win 7 x64 machine (which I believe is the crux of the problem, I just want to be sure everything else I'm doing is correct) 3) I've set it to the Live 5 preset (option 5- right?) 4) I get 3 MPD24 devices for and the same for out - I set all of them to 'on' 5) I don't seem to get any midi data. When I use my Oxygen 8, the small lights on the track flash on and off when I hit keys/use rotaries. I get nothing with the MPD24 6) this is my concern ... |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 05.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by jamthrax
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| Spencer Kilcoyne 05.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by Alessandro Savage
I've picked up an mpd 24 'red box' mapping from the ableton community s. Meh, I'll just keep bashing away ... I'll work it out eventually. |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 05.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by Wutzlhofer
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| Spencer Kilcoyne 01.07.2011 | I've finally found a bit of time to get my head around Ableton, and to try to get my Midi controllers working with it. The Oxygen 8 was easy to do, but I can't seem to get the MPD working ... I'm currently only using one at a time so it shouldn't be a device clash. There seem to be some interned community rumours of a need to upgrade the MPD24 firmware to 1.10 as there was some strangeness as to the messages being sent out? A little help? |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 18.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by Alessandro Savage
2) Firmware is 1.10, I flashed it last evening from my wife's XP machine, as I was having issues with USB midi ports on my Win 7 x64 machine (which I believe is the crux of the problem, I just want to be sure everything else I'm doing is correct) 3) I've set it to the Live 5 preset (option 5- right?) 4) I get 3 MPD24 devices for and the same for out - I set all of them to 'on' 5) I don't seem to get any midi data. When I use my Oxygen 8, the small lights on the track flash on and off when I hit keys/use rotaries. I get nothing with the MPD24 6) this is my concern ... |
| Romaine Moakler 17.07.2011 | Hmm...ok if my MPD24 wasn't working i'd probably check: 1) The USB cable. 2) The firmware. 3) The program preset (mine uses Ableton Live 5 preset for default) 4) The ableton midi preferences to make sure MPD24 is the selected controller and needs to be on "On" 5) Check to see if the controller is sending midi. (Any kind. Test pads, faders and encoders and not just one or the other.) 6) See if you're using the right OS? Maybe you need to update drivers? Idk if that helps but that's how I'd look at it. |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 17.07.2011 | OK, firmware updated. Still no joy on getting any data from the MPD Could someone write something really *really* simple to get me started? |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 05.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by jamthrax
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| Sammie Okeeffe 05.07.2011 | hey there... could you point me in the direction on the red box mapping. Would be a very handy tool as at the moment i am having to colour my mpd's pads |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 05.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by Alessandro Savage
I've picked up an mpd 24 'red box' mapping from the ableton community s. Meh, I'll just keep bashing away ... I'll work it out eventually. |
| Spencer Kilcoyne 05.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by Wutzlhofer
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| Romaine Moakler 03.07.2011 | I've got an MPD 24 and I'm using it under the Live 5 Preset. Also as mentioned in the above posts, check to make sure it's selected as a controller in the Ableton Midi Prefs dropdown menu and make sure they're on. If that doesn't work, you can remap the pads to different notes if that helps using the edit button on your MPD. I believe even with the older firmware it should still work. If I'm not wrong the firmware update solved the bottom transport controls problem which changed them from sending MMC messages to normal MIDI messages (read this somewhere but unfortunately I can't pull up the link) Good luck! |
| Geoffrey Bruining 01.07.2011 | be shure to set everything to ON in the midi preferences inside ableton... |
| Anabel Fogleman 01.07.2011 | I've got a MPD24 also, works fine in Logic 8. Works fine in Ableton 8 too. It's worked ok when triggering samples via a drum rack. I'm sure i've re-mapped the pads with different note compared to standard unit. (Tried looking for the video, but it's been a long time since i remapped it.) Bank A Pad 1 = note 39, Pad 2 = 40 and so on. Pad 16 = note 51. Each time it's +1, it would be easier if i could find the video? Not sure if this helps? Cheers |
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