![]() ![]() With our basic DRUM program remapped to ‘CHROMATIC C1’, the kit will now look like this on a MIDI keyboard: Typically I would use CHROMATIC C1 for an MPC drum kit, as this will assign midi notes to the pads in a chromatic order starting with note C1 (36) on pad A01 – this is now the ‘default’ layout on MPC 2.11 or greater. While you can change the MIDI note for each pad individually, it’s quicker to use one of the presets. ![]() Akai mp fl studio keys going to drums software#While in the MPC Software and MPC Beats, simply go to Edit > Program > Note Mapping: In a standalone MPC such as the MPC One, MPC X, MPC Key or MPC Live, make sure the program you wish to edit is assigned to the current sequencer track in MAIN and hit the ‘ pencil‘ icon at the end of the program row. It’s actually quite easy to completely re-map the MIDI notes on an existing MPC Drum kit, but you’ll need to be running MPC 2.8 or greater. ![]() However, any DRUM program created before MPC 2.11 is very likely to be the old messy layout (please note, all my kits on have always used the chromatic C1 layout!). ![]() Please remember that if you are running MPC 2.11 or greater, the default MIDI note mapping for a DRUM program is no longer this odd, jumbled mess, it’s the CHROMATIC C1 layout I describe later. So what’s the solution? Editing the MPC Program’s Note Mapping Owners of keyboards with built in pads (such as the Akai MPK and Arturia Minilab) experience similar issues as the pads on these controllers will be set to play chromatically, often starting at MIDI note C1, so again, there will be empty pads and an unintuitive order for the samples that are present. But on a MIDI keyboard, the sample order is all over the place, just take a look at the first octave on a keyboard, starting at C1: When this kit is played on the MPC pads, there’s no problem – the drums run in the order you set them to, as do the bass tones. Consider a very basic MPC kit, with kick, snare, closed hat and open hat assigned to pads A1 to A4 (a very common layout), and some chromatically mapped bass tones assigned to pads A5 to A8 (because MPC DRUM programs are often used for musical one shots as well!): The problem was that this layout isn’t particularly intuitive for finger drumming and it also isn’t typically compatible with the way most modern kits tend to be set up. This MIDI layout was used by every MPC since the MPC60 and was the default for any new DRUM program until the MPC 2.11 update. While keygroup and plugin programs have always used a standard ‘chromatic’ MIDI note layout identical to what you would expect when playing a keyboard, DRUM programs in MPCs had always used a layout that seems based on a General MIDI Drum standard – here’s the legacy MPC layout (I’ve added the GM instruments in green below): 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. ![]()
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