My new toy had arrived, I opened the box, plugged it in to my Mac and started playing around with my MPK Mini MkII in the editor software. There is no way to get it back unless you had saved it out as a ‘.mk2’ file previously. Please note, once you ‘SEND’ a MIDI Mapping to the device it will overwrite the exisiting MIDI Mapping on that particular ‘Program’ on the device.
#AKAI MPK MINI CUBASE SOFTWARE#
In this way you can send MIDI Mappings between the software and your device as much as you would like. If you press the ‘SEND’ Button next to ‘Program 1’ while your MPK Mini MkII is connected via USB, it will send the current MIDI Mappings for ‘Program 1’ from the software to your device. If you press the ‘GET’ Button next to ‘Program 1’ while your MPK Mini MkII is connected via USB, it will load the current MIDI Mappings for ‘Program 1’ from your device to the software. In the software you can see these on the far left of the user interface as depicted below: These are referred to as ‘Program 1’, ‘Program 2’, ‘Program 3’ and ‘Program 4’. Very cool.Įach MPK Mini MkII has four different ‘Programs’, which are essentially four different MIDI Mappings that can be switched between while using the device. They can load it in their editor, send it their MPK Mini MkII and use the MIDI Mapping that you have programmed. You can create a Custom MIDI Mapping in the editor that works for you, save it out as ‘CustomMapping.mk2’ and send it to a friend. If you wish to learn more about using this software I recommend you read AKAI’s Help Article which gives you a solid run through of how it functions.įor the purpose of this tutorial, the main thing that you need to know is the editor saves/loads files in the ‘.mk2’ file format. This software is called ‘MPK Mini Mk2 Editor’ and is available for macOS and Windows.
SoftwareĪKAI has specifically designed software to allow the user to MIDI Map their MPK Mini MkII. But first, a quick run through of how everything works.
#AKAI MPK MINI CUBASE DOWNLOAD#
Download links are at the bottom of this page. I purchased another AKAI MPK Mini MkII, now armed with the knowledge of how it works I was able to extract the default MIDI Presets, save them out and host them here for you to use.
After many Google searches it seemed this was going to be close to impossible as AKAI don’t provide their stock presets anywhere online for download. When I realised I had done this, I thought it’d be great if I could return the device to its factory settings. I’d played around with MIDI before but was still treading into uncharted waters when setting this up, during the process I lost all of the default MIDI Presets. Recently I purchased an AKAI MPK Mini MkII to use as a small sized MIDI Controller for Ableton.
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