Midi Control Mode - Akai MPC Essentials User Manual

MIDI Control Mode

In MIDI Control Mode, you can customize what MIDI messages are sent from certain controls on
your hardware. This custom "control map" will then work whenever you are in MIDI Control
Mode. This is useful when using MPC Essentials as a plugin: you can use MIDI Control Mode to
use your MPC hardware to control your host software, and then switch back to any other mode to control
the MPC Essentials plugin.
Important:
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In your host software, make sure your MPC hardware is selected as a MIDI controller device.
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The edits you make in MIDI Control Mode will be retained with the current MPC Essentials Project. If
you want to use the same control map for all of your Projects, we recommend saving your control
map in your template file. See the Preferences: Auto Load/Save Tab part of the General Features
chapter for more information about template files.
In your software, click the MIDI Control tab in the Mode Tab Section.
The software window will display a graphical interface resembling your connected hardware controller.
Editable controls display their current MIDI message. Controls outlined in red are identical across all eight
pad banks. The pads are all editable, as well, and can be set to behave identically across all banks or
differently in each bank.
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