Akai Professional LPD8 - USB MIDI Controller with 8 Responsive MPC Drum Pads for Mac and PC, 8 Assignable Knobs and Music Production Software

Great little drum/sample pad.

I'm using with my own custom midi scripts as a controller. Works great for that. Reliable inputs, acceptable build quality. I don't use for finger-drumming though so not comment on that.

As per usual, Akai are useless at software distribution. You have to download a piece of software and install it and run that piece of software to download the software you actually need to be able to customise the pads, programs and colours. The included music making software is trash they call award winning lol. Oh and whilst I’m at it all current MPCs are just crappy sub-laptop level computers with a horrible touch interface. They still have the best pads, tho, which is why I sold my MPC One and replaced it with this. The LPD8 is solidly built, compact and easy to use once you’ve gotten past the aforementioned software shenanigans. Four stars for the hardware - one star for the software

Really good quality. I use it as dedicated controller for Ableton LINK when I work with Traktor Pro 3 or FX panel when I use Djay Pro with Traktor S3 controller. It works pretty well. You can really easy to map it in Ableton, Traktor, Djay Pro and another software that support midi mapping. I think you can achieve absolutely any worflow that you need.

Love this. Wish I’d bought one sooner. So easy to use.

Use it as DJ deck, midi pad, or just beats, it's quality item, just small.

I bought the 'AKAI Professional LPD8 MK2' (professional??) as I wanted to make it easier to create drums in Garageband and EZDrummer. I have an AKAI midi keyboard, but I don't have a lot of desk space and I thought this pad controller would be handy and space-saving. Sadly though it's let down by several issues: Sensitivity, or the lack of. You have to hit the pads so hard, your fingers would eventually hurt. Because of this you have no control how hard you hit the drums. You simply can't create any subtlety, it's pretty much all, or nothing with a very small margin that you can't seem to control. Adding to this, there is no option to adjust the sensitivity. I even read online that some users were having to go inside and sticking tape to the sensors to help. The next thing is the lack of a detailed manual. The ones bundled don't mention the Editor (MK2 Editor), which you need to use in order to asign which pad does which drum/cymbal etc. I did find the software on the AKAI website and downloaded. The PDF instruction that are available for the editor were very vague, so I had to look for tutorials online. All the online tutorials for the editor were for the old version (MK1) going back 13 years on some. The new MK2 version has a slightly harder to use interface. You can't just type in the notes, i.e. C1, D# etc, you have to enter the number that corresponds with the note. The older version was easier by the looks of it. Sending the changes to the device was also a problem, I put it C1 for bass drum, but in Garageband and my midi lookup app it was showing C0. This was the same for all of the enteries, they were all an octave out! So pretty dissapointed. I guess I'll have to just use my midi keyboard controller instead as this thing is total junk.

Quality product Value for money

Increíble, los materiales son de buena calidad, muy portátil y plug & play

It’s a typical Akai product. Durable, responsive, compatible, and comes with loads of bonus software. The pads are a little stiff. I gotta smack em purdy hard but they just need to be broken in. It’s compact and looks dope. Doesn’t feel too light and cheap or too heavy and out dated. Very durable. Connects via usb. Plug and play all day. If you travel bring it with you on the plane and plug it up to your laptop and you’re back at it. If you’re looking to run it as your main drum pad tho in a home studio setup drop the additional $100 and buy the studio MPD. This is definitely for travel purposes

The pads would not fire unless pressed hard, repeat notes were difficult. The velocity curve was fixed so either have to use full velocity and manually tweak or unreliable button presses. Might be ok for launching clips but not as a drum pad. Returned it.

Ótima qualidade!

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