The knobs on the Akai pretty much correspond to the knobs on Impact, and the sliders to the sliders (except for filter resonance) to help you visualise and save confusion. You really need to test it for yourself, but to help you get your heads around it a little more:
#AKAI MPD 24 FPC FL STUDIO SOFTWARE#
I've got practically every drum software known to man, and I can honestly say that Impact holds its head up high. I think it has a very decent 'sound engine' too, considering that it is more of a beat box than a synth. I actually think it is a very good sampler. And this works like I said for 95 percent of all the drum presets for Impact. That's it! But you will be amazed at the amount of control you have and the massive impact it has on the sounds. On the knobs on the right (pad 4 - Snare), from top to bottom in a row: On the knobs on the left (pad 1 - Kick), from top to bottom in a row: We have exactly the same controls in parallel for both pads/samples. But let's just stick to the stock internal presets in Studio one for now. Impact is a sampler like the MPC, so there is nothing stopping you loading in interesting wave files such as synths etc. Keep in mind that this is for percussive sounds which are fairly static and boring to start with. Fortunately we have just enough to play with. And the great thing is, you only need these few controls to do it. You will be able to turn a normal kick drum into a blip, a bloop, a bleep, a boom. The sound engine in Impact is actually very very powerful. It turns Impact into the equivalent of a hardware synthesizer. What we have is absolutely incredible when you get to play with it. It's the same in the FPC in FLStudio, so it's no better there. It could be filter cutoff on Pad5 or volume on Pad1. You have to explicitly assign it to one control. It's not a case of setting up a knob to do something, then expect it to work across all pads the same when you select a new pad. Remember, we only have 12 knobs/sliders for the entire map, for ALL the pads. I decided to leave Volume out of the controller map, because really your volume should be set and it's a waste of limited resources. It took me a few hours to get it myself, but now I can make up an entire map in a few minutes. I'll save that for another time if anyone is interested, but most people should be able to figure it out themselves. It is logical and simple and works perfectly. It is actually very very easy to set the mapping up for Impact on the Akai. After a little playing about I realised that a lot of the controls don't make any difference to most of the sounds, but a small few have MASSIVE impact. Refusing to admit defeat for not getting things working how I expected them to, logically, I persevered with working to the limitations at hand. So, what have we got as well as all the drums pads being mapped correctly? The other maps for Live and FLStudio and BFD etc. So you can use my map knowing it is exactly the same except for two added maps. It is the default factory setup that you get from Akai, though you will have a backup yourself of that of course. I have also included a template for Battery in the setup. You can then use this Akai Map as a template should you wish to change any mappings later on. I've done the really hard part, so you should be able to do the easy bit. If you get stuck on this, ask me, and I'll try to help, but I'm not going to do your homework for you. It's actually a total mind warp if you've never done it before, but like anything else, it's not that difficult when you know how.
#AKAI MPD 24 FPC FL STUDIO HOW TO#
I am assuming that you know how to do this. I've included the Akai controller map that you will need to load into your MPD. So this template will work for the majority of presets you can load. I noticed that all the kicks and snares seem to be mapped to the same pads throughout the presets for Impact. I'm still waiting for clarification about this limitation.īut never mind, it's just as well, because now we have a template that can control the two most important sounds in any drum kit - KICK and SNARE. You will only be able to use these controls on TWO pads however, due to the limitations of the software. Plus, I have mapped all the knobs and sliders of the Akai to the most important synth controls that make the most obvious difference to the sound. I've just made up a controller map for the Akai MPD26 to control Impact, with all the pads mapped correctly for 95 percent of the native presets in Studio One.