First of all, if you are rocking a MacBook, you will have major problems. One problem is you can’t even use all the many buttons (Record, Stop, Volume Controls) in your presets. It’s is almost not even fun to use with a Mackbook. Akai’s website does not mention a fix for this in the foreseeable future. Secondly, if you are a novice piano player, this might not be for you. When you are using a MIDI controller, you are depending on your knowledge on the piano as well as your experience with your DAW. If those are lacking, reevaluate the necessity of this product in your life. Blessings.

 

Llevo varios meses con l y sigue funcionando correctamente, por el tamao que tiene es muy fcil de transportar en mi mochila.

 

I bought this for my son for Christmas and he has used it pretty much every day since. It was easy for him to set up and use even though it was his first time ever having one. Great for beginners

 

Mon fils souhaitait tout prix obtenir cet appareil, aprs avoir vu des tutos sur internet. Je lui ai donc command pour son anniversaire.
J’aurais d malheureusement creuser le sujet avant de passer commande.

Pour les non-initis, il est important de savoir que ce clavier n’est pas prvu pour fonctionner seul.
Son utilisation ncessite le raccordement un PC et l’installation d’un logiciel de mixage ddi (trs gourmands en ressources), dans le but d’affecter des sonorits aux diffrentes touches.
Autant dire me mon pc portable de l’poque (processeur I3 intel) n’arrivait pas suivre…

Malgr de nombreuses recherches sur internet, je n’ai pu rsoudre un problme. En effet, les octaves ne respectent pas l’ordre des touches. Donc impossible de jouer une mlodie comme sur un synth.
J’ai donc trouv que l’apprentissage et l’utilisation de ce genre de matriel sont assez fastidieux. J’ai persist quelques semaines, mais mon fils s’en est dsintress au bout de quelques jours.

Un conseil, achetez uniquement si vous possdez un pc assez costaud (une carte son me parait indispensable).

En ce qui concerne le passage de la commande et la livraison, tout c’est bien droul.
A l’installation, le produit ncessite une connexion sur le site AKAI, pour enregistrement et tlchargement du logiciel de base. L aussi, rien redire. Tout la procdure est claire et simple mettre en uvre.

En rsum, c’est un trs bon produit (avis bas sur les tutos vido), mais convient des utilisateurs initis et dtenteur d’un bon PC.

 

Easy to set up and use. Definitely value for money.

 

I love this little keyboard. Its size is VERY helpful to the current limited range of my hands. While I don’t yet know all about all its features, the small keys help a lot and its size makes it very portable!

Basically, the volume is what other reviewers have said it was — much better with headphones, although it does have sufficient volume to play without them. The octave key is really an ingenious idea I hadn’t considered before!! I’m still getting used to it, but it’s a GREAT idea for keeping the size and weight down.

The drum pads do work surprisingly well for something this small, and you get a good selection of percussion sounds!! Because of response time and the firmness with which you need to tap the pads, you can’t really do fast or quick riffs, but they are much better than I expected.

There’s also a good selection of instrument tones!! And you can program various functions that I haven’t mastered yet, but which appear to offer some truly amazing effects, especially for a keyboard this size. It would probably sound awesome used as a midi player, which I haven’t tried but which you can also do.

My only real comment is that you have to press the keys pretty firmly. They seem to require very deliberate key pressure, something I cannot currently do very well. So the keyboard seems VERY useful for composing and for melodies — just not for playing key-heavy pieces, which I cannot do right now anyway. As such, it IS also perfect for beginners or for beginners to electronic keyboards.

I absolutely love the battery efficiency!! Truly a plus.

The unit as a whole has allowed me to use a piano keyboard generally, something I haven’t been able to do for some time. For that, a big Thank You!!

 

This little keyboard is the one you want if you’re going to buy one of the mpk mini units. Even though its not a synth, the preloaded sounds on the unit are wonderful and show up on a lot of my music. Little keyboard with some really useable tones. A great traveler or unit for sitting beside the mpc. Great entry level unit that I feel still has a place in my studio even after getting some legit midi synths.

 

Probably great, returned it bc my ex is now my ex

 

Cette version propose une prise casque audio l’arrire ce qui n’est pas le cas d’autres , soyez vigilant.
Cet article peut tre utiliser sans ordinateur comme une clavier pour mlomane , sur 3 piles ou une source Usb (bien placer le commutateur sur l’option d’alimentation qui convient).
Une fois install en quelques seconde, il vous faudra vous connecter avec mail et compte peu importe le nom… pour rcuprer deux programmes mpc beats qui est une sorte de Hub pour d’autres modules , donc 1 module mais aussi un utilitaire qui dite les mp3 et wav trs bien j’en voulais un.
Une fois sur le programme Mpc Beats vous avez un squenceur il faudra ou pas install des programmes gratuit ou a payer pour avoir des kits dans le programme en lien avec le Akai.
Il faut quand mme une base de musique et d’aisance pour ces logiciels de musique ce n’est pas la port de tout le monde croyez moi. Il y a plein de choses qu’il faut apprendre ou pas vous de voir mais il y a bcp de trucs, on arrive a se faire plaisir surtout si vous avez dej fait cela ce qui est mon cas, sinon bien faudra apprendre , se renseigner, idem pour moi mme si j’ai dej fait cela titre perso et cration de musiques.
Donc le produit est bien , il y avait un autre 60… mais lui fait aussi clavier maitre et donc peu le coupler un autre uniquement en prise Jack pas de midi, sauf sur PC ‘ via usb ‘

 

Cool interface for making beats. I recommend this version as you can play with it right out of the box without the need of a computer. Internal speaker is very small and quiet so you need to hook it up to an external speaker or amp to really hear the great sounds. Tons of built in sounds and an adequate amount of drum kits already loaded into this unit. Works right away with Garage Band.
There is no built in looper so you will need to buy one or use your DAW to accomplish this effect. Overall a simple unit to start music recording. Lots of YouTube tutorials available. Able to use batteries but they get drained quickly. USB power available.

 

Vraiment un regale ce petit piano ,

Pour le moment je ne l’ai qu’exclusivement utilis en extrieur avec des pile // amplifier sur une enceinte portatif
enfin un petit instrument que se range parfaitement dans le sac avec lequel tu peux rellement travailler /t amuser
Personelleme,nt , je l’utilise au taff a mes heures perdu et j’apprecis vraiment l’autonomie du produit , quil sois indpandant de tout logiciel c’est vraiment une gros plus

Par contre il aurai t tellement appreciable d’avoir un looper intgr decus … et sa c’est vachement domage , du coup le fun est limit quand on est pas connect en midi , le must aurai etait d’avoir une connectique bluetooth aussi ainis que de quoi inserer notre prope vbanque de son … ENFIN BREF

sa reste pour sur tres jouiisif , quand on a pas l’habitude c’est un peut la galere la prise en main mais vraiment c’est un regale !

 

In questa recensione vorrei cercare di raccontare la mia esperienza ed esserti utile nella scelta visto che anch’io ho cercato di capire di pi leggendo le altre recensioni.

MPK Mini Play della AKAI un controller, pertanto, non lecito attendersi che i timbri inclusi possono essere all’altezza di quelli di un sintetizzatore da 1.000 euro. Tuttavia, devo dire che alcuni suoni non sono poi cos male. E’ comunque qualcosa in pi.

Su questo fronte occorre essere chiari: altri prodotti simili, compresi gli altri MPK della AKAI, non includono un set di suoni o di ritmi, come pure non sono dotati di uno speaker. Come ho letto in alcune recensioni, ed vero, la qualit dello speaker piuttosto bassa ma… sinceramente non mi aspettavo nulla di diverso, perch le dimensioni dello speaker sono ben visibili dalle immagini: diciamo che lo potete immaginare come l’audio del vostro cellulare in vivavoce. Non adatto per accompagnare una chitarra al parco 😉

La domanda che vi dovete fare : la comodit di poter utilizzare il mio controller in modo indipendente dal pc o dal Mac, il fatto di avere a disposizione 128 timbri e diverse batterie, pu essere comodo per la mia attivit creativa? Per me lo era e una spesa di 10 in pi rispetto agli altri modelli non era poi cos preoccupante.

Funziona anche solo con tre batterie senza alcun altro collegamento: questo pu essere utile per prendere appunti musicali al volo. Diversamente, lo potete collegare con il cavo in dotazione ad una normale porta USB.

Il display piacevole ma non necessario; a me fa piacere averlo, inoltre, segnala il timbro in uso e le variazioni compiute con i filtri o la velocit impressa a pad e tastiera.

Potete settare anche i vostri suoni preferiti: cosa ancora pi interessante, potete modificarli senza ausilio di computer e daw direttamente dalla tastiera con il vostro umile spikerino e memorizzarli per poi richiamarli a piacimento (con i pad). Questo mi piaciuto e mi ha colpito favorevolmente.

Peccato non avere un registratore interno: naturalmente impossibile accontentare tutti noi anche perch le dimensioni del prodotto sono ridotte (c’ chi vorrebbe il Bluetooth, c’ chi vorrebbe degli speaker un po’ migliori, etc.).

La tastiera non il massimo ma nella media rispetto ai prodotti simili dell’identica fascia: io riesco a lavorarci abbastanza bene. Ho provato anche a pestare pesantemente i tasti singolarmente o con accordi: la tastiera piuttosto gommosa, non piacevolissima, ma nulla di diverso da quello che ci si pu attendere da questo tipo di prodotto. Per intanto non ho rotto i tasti, ma credo che occorra stare attenti nella fase di rilascio a non strattonarli con i polpastrelli con delle dita non molto sottili: infatti i tasti sono ridotti.

Ho trovato iPad per la batteria abbastanza duri, ma, se vogliamo guardare l’aspetto positivo, possiamo picchiare molto forte e arricchire l’espressivit delle percussioni: lo strumento in grado di capire l’intensit.

L’arpeggiatore interno abbastanza scarso, ma credo che questo ci interessi relativamente in quanto il controller lo utilizziamo con un software. Anche il sistema di tap per controllare la velocit dell’arpeggiatore non precisissimo. Ripeto, per me non era essenziale, ma ho provato ad utilizzarlo per creare una linea di basso e in questo pu essere utile a pensare un pezzo senza pretese. Non un synth.

Effettivamente, come ho detto in altre recensioni, invece vero che il tasto full level non svolge bene il suo lavoro. Direi che comunque anche questo aspetto trascurabile.

Per quanto concerne i software in dotazione e la compatibilit con pc, oppure come nel mio caso con Macintosh, devo dire che non ho trovato le difficolt che avevo letto su altri commenti. Infatti, il controller comandava correttamente GarageBand, ed ho potuto scaricare sul mio MacBook Air con S.O. Catalina uno dei software messi a disposizione, e pi precisamente Hybrid 3. Anche cos il software funziona correttamente.

Forse, potrete trovare qualche difficolt in pi a settare le “manopole”, ma per me questo non un problema.

Ho testato il prodotto con uno speaker per cellulare e l’audio decisamente migliore, ma per qualche accordo durante la creazione di una canzone sufficiente anche il piccolo speaker (ripeto, di bassa qualit ma anche vero che gli altri non ce l’hanno).
Per completare questa recensione ho provato a collegare il controller alle casse di un pianoforte digitale e ad un amplificatore per basso elettrico: i suoni interni risultavano abbastanza bene e non ho notato particolari fruscii o ronzii. In caso di emergenza si pu fare, ma non lo auguro a nessuno perch evidentemente non il suo ruolo 🙂

Ovviamente, il prodotto non pensato per sostituire un sintetizzatore ad un concerto oppure per suonare delle parti di Schopin.

Personalmente sono abbastanza soddisfatto ed il rapporto qualit prezzo, confrontato con prodotti della medesima fascia, abbastanza soddisfacente.

Un caro saluto a tutti e buona musica !!!

 

Nice little keyboard. Once it is coupled with main keyboard & PC it can do a lot of nifty tricks.

 

I traded an MPK mini 2 for this. The Play doesn’t have bluetooth, but it does have built in sounds and a little speaker. The sounds are only okay, and the speaker is only loud enough to be useful in a quiet room, but I find it very useful. I can use it to work out or practice little melodies without my computer, then I can attach the usb when I need to use it as a controller.

The pads are useful, the screen is nice. I wish it had a little midi sequencer built in so I could tap out a drum beat, then play along to it. But as is, it’s a nice little combination of features for the size and price. Pretty good on battery life, too.

 

my first midi controller cost $32 and worked fine. But I wanted pads instead of keys. The only added feature for getting the “Play” version is the built in speaker. But it is NOT worth the extra $50 over the standard MkII. The speaker is tinny and tiny. worse then a toy.
i was unhappy with the “included” software because i had to install proprietary licensing software in order to use it. A basic grand piano patch and I have to fully enroll in a third party software and install it to my hard drive. Not cool.
as far as build quality, I haven’t had any complaints. I general go easy with it but i have giant ape hands so most stuff breaks with me.
It synced up to my Logic Pro X easily enough and I was making beats and playing notes.
the overall experience, to me, justifies going past $32 for a midi controller. I “feel” less like an musical imposter and that changes all songwriting.
I guess being able to goof around (and use headphones with it) is worth it.

 

This keyboard is the perfect keyboard! I highly recommend this to any producer. Wide selection of sounds too!

 

Well worth it, kids picked it up pretty fast,,,,,,,THUMBS UP!!!

 

This is a nice little General Midi Plus keyboard. What I mean by PLUS is that sounds can be run thru a filter, attack and decay are on the unit as well as reverb, chorus, bass and treble. Drives ALL of the synth apps on my IPad easily with a simple camera adapter.
BUT the keyboard is horrible. The spring resistance is way too high. I watched a lot of reviews on YT and most users say “I’m not a keyboardist so…..”. So it works for adding music to they’re DAWs. I am a keyboardist and have 10 other synths and none of them, even my AKAI Miniak are as “sproingy” as this. So, if your a beginner DO NOT judge how you play by this thing.
Back to the positive: the sounds are really nice, the arpeggiator is great and being able to tweak every sound is amazing for a keyboard at this price.

 

Fairly basic, not all that robust and instructions supplied are minimal. However, for the the price it is excellent. Plug into your laptop and off you go. With imagination you will be able to generate professional standard tracks. Instruction videos available on the internet.

 

Love it apart from the fact that I downloaded the free software and it’s not compatible with chromebook. So can’t get full use out of it. Bit gutted.

 

We purchased this as a Christmas gift for our 4 1/2 year old son. It is perfect for beginners and will be even better as he grows up. It is user friendly enough so he can play around with the different sounds and use it as a stand alone synth. He also loves to hook his headphones to it. My only complaint is that the speaker doesn’t allow for a higher volume. It is very quiet.

 

Great little machine for the money. I have recently took up learning the keyboard and bought this machine as an extra as it is a mini synthesiser with a arpeggiator and drum pads. I like that I can take it anywhere as it runs on batteries or can plug into your pc. You can play and create music. Internal speaker is a bit low in noise, but sounds great when you listen through headphones. It’s light to carry around and I can sit on my sofa or in the park playing music. The software is a bit of a phaff to set up, but after contacting the support people, they sent me a link to show me how to set it all up. Three lots of software later, licences and setting up the machine in the preferences tab and was finally good to use. Very happy with it. If you want something sophisticated, then this might not be for you. But for fun and messing about making music on the go, it’s great.

 

Este teclado es justo lo que quera, lo puedo conectar a mi pedalera de la guitarra o directo a mi computadora, hay que re-mappear los pads para ableton, pero eso se hace sencillo, el software de configuracin no es tan sencillo, pero si lees el instructivo, no hay pierde. Trae sus sonidos internos, entonces no lo necesitas conectar a la compu para usarlo, eso si, la bocina es pequea, solamente para referencia o practicar, pero se puede conectar a una bocina ms grande por auxiliar.

 

Petit clavier bien sympa pour le voyage . Il a ses limitation clavier plastoc avec des touches mini mais avec une sensitibilit qui le rend jouable et 127 echantillons de sons intgrs. Il tient sur les genoux en avion c’est super drole de pouvoir jouer sans dranger son voisin et improviser , en s’amusant avec une banque de son bien large . La qualit des chantillons n’est pas gniale mais tout a fait correcte. Sa taille est super il entre dans tous les sacs avec son format
Bien sur on peut l’utiliser comme clavier midi et les pads de drums sont pas mal foutus avec bonne sensibilit galement. Il a 9 sets de batterie (electronique, acoustique , qq percussions; .. ).
Le gros manque c’est un looper intgr c’est vraiment dommage . On aurait prfrs 20 sons biens fait 127 mais c’est un petit outil bien fun , et surtout aucun quivalent sur le march actuellement. Moi j’aime bien ; mais j’espre que Akai ou autre constructeur fera une version amliore et surtout integrera le looper .

 

his controller is cool.i didn’t download the free software,i have an editor i like just fine(Sony acid).if you connect through the usb to your computer it will work but not with its firmware,it works as a midi controller but thats it.i ran it through my USB interface mixer,i used a 3.5 audio cord for the connection from the mpk mini plays earphone jack to the line in on my mixer and it works great. all in all this gizmo is useful and i like it.it also works well in my editor as a midi board controller .as every one has stated in the negative reviews the speaker does suck but though a mixer or headphones it works just fine.

 

A good tradesman or woman never blames his or her tools or so the old saying goes. In a normal daytime environment, the on-board speaker is indeed low. I expect this. I hook up my pill speaker for daytime output or headphones At night, the on-board speaker is perfect.

This device fulfills two main functions for me.
Firstly, using the internal sounds to sketch out a melody or figure out some chords.
Secondly, plugging into my audio workstation to lay down some beats, riffs, harmony or lines.
Here’s the thing, I do not expect a 25-key controller to compare to my 88-key piano. I use them for different things.
I love this controller. I use it everyday, wherever I am, to put together beats, arrangements that are fire and inspire myself and others.
Life’s too short to live in fear, frustration and blaming our technology. It is what you make it. Great music has been made on much less. It’s not about the device, it’s what you do with it. I love i

 

Perfect little controller with 101 and 808 on board sounds. Filters with attack, resonance and release let you create original sounds. Looks awesome.