AKAI MPK MINI MK3 Complete Setup - Registration, Software Download, and Installation Walk Through

this video is going to cover how to register your akai mpk mini mark iii this way you can download the software get your codes activate your software i want to show you how to do everything i just said in this video check it out [Music] what's up my name is matthew and i hope you like making music because that's what this channel's about if you're new here and you want tutorials on how to make music consider subscribing so if you're watching this video you probably just purchased the akai mpk mini mark iii and you want to you know go ahead and download the software that comes included with it because there are some free instruments that come with it and you can download the npcb software and there's also a couple expansions that do come with this so what i want to show you is how you can register this device and then once you register it you're going to have access to all the other software downloads let's get into it so if you go to akai pro download it's basically going to tell you how you can go about doing this and it's going to say that you need to create a login once you create a login you're going to have to register your account and then you can download your software i'm going to show you how to do all those things right now so if you don't have an account you need to click create an account all right and then you're going to be able to put your first name and last name in and then your email address and create your password i already have an account so i don't need to do that so i'm going to click sign in all right it says log in here all right and you can get to this at any point in time as well if you go to akaipro.com and press sign in it's going to take you over here so once you created your account go ahead and put your login information in here alright and then go ahead and sign in so once you sign in you're going to see all your registered products if you don't have any registered products that's fine all you have to do is register your products so make sure you are right here where it says my registered products so that's the last um little menu down here my registered products so if you don't have anything registered just click in there and put in your serial number and you'll notice it says your serial number starts with the 21 in the parentheses that's going to be on the back of your device right here is your actual serial number so that's where you're going to find that go ahead and register your product so once you've successfully registered your product it'll say successfully register your product it'll give you a green check mark and then you'll find it down here on your list so it says mpk mini mk3 so once you register your serial number make sure you scroll down and you're going to be able to see something that says mpk mini 3 software it says all you need to get started simply run this installer and we'll get you all set up and use your serial to unlock the included instruments so what you got to do is press over here where it says get me a serial click that so that's going to give you the serial number you're going to need that serial number to go ahead and you know unlock your software but before you unlock the software you need to download the software so you need to download your software so i have a windows computer so i'm going to click download so once it's done downloading make sure you find where it's at in the folder all right i have it right here but i'm actually going to drag it to my desktop so i'm just going to pull it from my downloads folder to my desktop i just like doing that all right and then you can always save it for backup on your computer in case you need it later but i'm going to double click it it's going to open up the software manager and you can see mpk mini software manager setup all right so it's going to open that up it's going to install it there and you can see that it opened up there so once it does open up you're going to see all these different options now if you don't see this editor right here make sure you do go to your settings here and show advanced software so that's going to show the mpk editor i'm just going to go straight ahead and download all this different stuff so i'm going to download hybrid three i'm going to download mini grand i want to download velvet and i'm going to download npc beats and the mpk editor and then i'm going to download these here so these are actual sound packs so you got your producer kits your soulful drums your lo-fi producer collection trap insole lo-fi beats now it didn't say that these came with it on the box but i'm seeing them here so i'm just going to download them and install them so i'm going to click download on all of these so it's really nice that they did include all the software in one kind of package like this so it makes it easy to download everything and this way you have everything right there you just download it there you can activate it right here and um you can even open it from right here if you want to and i know this is an improved process from the previous version so i'm happy that they did you know kind of update this whole process for you and while that's downloading i do want to show you right here where it says more info all right so go ahead and click this so kai professional they do want to support you so you got different videos that you can go through so you got your different performance videos here okay so that's very good you got a forum here all right i'm trying to show you this guys because you know you never know when you might need these resources you got an faq here so here's an faq like really nice that they do have this support you got a user's guide all right so you got some information in the user's guide you have troubleshooting and then you also have support all right so you can do your inquiry here so you do have resources that akai professional are providing you so take advantage of those resources and you can always ask questions in the comments as well so everything's finished downloading i'm going to start the install process i'm going to start right at the beginning so here's hybrid 3 and then i'm going to install it so step 1 is to install step 2 is to get the activation code i'm just going to press step 1 i'm going to install it so here we go you can create a shortcut if you want to i'm just going to press it and see what it looks like and then i'm going to install it so once it's done you can push finish and then you've got to get your activation code so i'm going to press get activation code so in order to actually activate this particular software this is the hybrid 3 you do need an ilock account i already have one but if you don't have one you would click right here create an ilock account so if you press create an iloc account this is what it's going to look like so you would fill this out and you would set up your account it doesn't cost anything to do but this is how you would do it once you create that ilock account you can open your you know a chi professional account and this is where you would get that code that we created earlier so i'm simply just copying the serial number so once you copy the serial number you would launch the program so i'm launching the program now and i want to enter that code or that serial number so i'm going to press activate and then i'm going to put the serial number in so i'm just going to go ctrl v it's going to paste it in press next and then go ahead and put your email in or register with your existing ilock account i want to register on my existing ilock account it says please select the activation location so i'm just going to do it on my computer now if you did have a hard i lock actual usb eye lock you could put it on that but you don't have to i don't even know where mine is i'm just going to activate it on my computer so i'm going to pick this computer activation successful and by the way this is what hybrid is it's a synthesizer so it's a digital synthesizer and here you go this is what it looks like let's go ahead and close out of that if you're finding value in this video remember to give it a thumbs up it's going to help the channel it's going to help people see this information all right it's valuable information so i do appreciate you for doing that and i'm going to keep going with my day here so here we go mini grand is next so the first thing you do is you just install it and then you go through the same process so this is the setup for the midi grand i'm going to create a desktop shortcut and then i'm going to install it and then it's going to take a few seconds to go ahead and install click finish to exit setup all right i click finish now we got to click get the activation code i already got it we already got it right we already copied it but if you didn't you would go ahead and copy it so i'm going to just cancel out of that because we already have the app right here i'm just going to press open mini grand is now launching once it opens apparently we gotta install that alright so let's see if this is in here so let's choose that directory oh yeah i think that was it so there we go [Music] we got a grand we got a little minigram oh yeah i like that and then let's go ahead and install this velvet all right install now i'm going to create a desktop shortcut again just because i want to and when install it all right it's going to go ahead and install this and then we're going to go ahead and see if it opens for us installing installing is much better when it actually works installing installing is much better when it actually works so again it says step one install and then get the activation code i'm just going to close that we already got the activation code should be already activated so i'm going to open it just to see if it works it says velvet's now launching content cannot be found if you run into this issue go ahead and press this wrench here click here now you're going to have some issues trying to find this pot probably but what you got to do is go to your c drive okay so if you go to your c drive right click show hidden files and then once you show your hidden files go into your program data all right and then go to air music technology velvet choose that one all right now once you choose that you need to restart it and so that's what i'm going to do i'm going to close that and i'm going to open it again so we're all hooked up there as far as velvet goes so there you go we installed hybrid three mini grand and velvet we used that serial code that was in our account to activate all three with our ilock account all right so we went through that process that's the hardest part of this everything else we just install it and it's going to install we don't have to worry about activating it it's all right here within our mpk mini software manager npc beats is right here let's go ahead and push install on that one once you push install it's going to start installing okay go ahead and read through this and when you're ready push i accept the agreement press next all right i'm going to create a desktop shortcut press next going to press install it's going to take a couple little moments here to install so the mpc beat software is finished i'm going to not launch it now and i want to push finish and now we got the mpk editor so i'm going to press install on that so what the mpk editor does is it makes it to where you can customize all the parameters on your mpk mini boom i'm just going to go ahead and push next on that accept the agreement push next install and it's going to install it takes a couple moments push finish and let's keep moving on we got our producer kits so i'm going to install the producer kits and that should only take a few moments as well accept the user agreement press next install now the producer kits um it does take a little while to install because there are a lot of kits that they actually give you with this which is very nice very generous of them and then the other ones don't take as long to install because there's not as many kids so i'm going to finish that and then i'm going to saw the soulful drums accept agreement go to next install and you can see this one's going a lot quicker it doesn't take very long for this one to install all right press finish i want to install the lo-fi producer collection so i'm going to go ahead and install that finish that one and i'm going to install the trap soul and lo-fi beats expansion let's go ahead and accept that go to next go to install i want to finish that and at this point everything's installed so we got everything installed all right and the last thing to do is just plug in our controller and go into the nbc beat software and check everything out so i'm going to close this out now keep in mind you can come back to this software anytime to go ahead and open up any of this stuff all right but i'm going to go ahead and close that and then on my desktop i created this i'm going to go into mpc beats double click that so when you first install your mpc beats it's probably going to tell you to plug in your controller um i went through and i did a setup video about mpc beats so you can actually check out that video i will link that video up here as well so check out that setup video for npc beats and it's going to show you how to set up everything all right but let's go ahead and just get into this so i'm just going to open the basic template here all right just so we have some sounds in here so i do want to show you this down on thinking about it just in case you don't watch the setup video i just want to show you this so if you go to your menu and if you go over here to your preferences make sure you pick um a driver now if you don't have a sound card pick azio for all and i do have this driver here all right you could test it like that and then you go to your midi sync here make sure your mpk3 mini is on control and if you do want to use the sync option and you know use note repeat make sure that's on sync and you send your mini clock and then you would put your controller on to receive external i'll do a different video about that but that's how you would make sure that that's set up and if for some reason you weren't able to set up your midi controller whenever you opened up in pcbs go ahead and make sure you go to midi learn which is right here all right so it is control plus shift plus l all right or just press this little icon down here it's going to take you over to mini learn and then you can actually click right here and go to factory go to akai select right here says the akai mpk mini three all right so that's going to get you set up you can see i can use this to play different things there so one thing i want to show you is on your c drive if you go here go to velvet all right you might want to actually copy this little file here and actually put it in your vsd folder i don't know why it doesn't do it when it installs it i have vsts in a couple of different places on here but right here i have them you know i also have them in here as well so this is the steinberg folder in the vsts so i could put it in here and if you look at this file location so here's the mini grand vst now you may or may not have to do this i just want to show you this now so i don't get a 100 questions about it later all right so go ahead and put these in your vsd folder wherever that is on your computer it might be different locations but for mine if i go to program files steinberg vsts all right and then whenever i go over here and then i go to my editor and then preferences and then plugins i can scan all the new plugins all right when that's done go ahead and pick done there and then i'm just going to go to an unused track make sure i pick a plugin all right i'm going to click right here click vst all right i got my velvet i got my midi grand i got hybrid all right there so all i have to do is just load them up so if i go to velvet alright create a new program and as you can see velvet loads up nicely right there if i want to change it i could go to mini grand all right let's go ahead and hear that one all right so mini gram loads up and you can select your presets here all right so there you go and then what's the other one hybrid is right here all right whoa all right you can select your presets all right so you got everything there again there's hybrid your mini grand all right and then velvet [Music] if you want more information about the akai mpk mark 3 and npc beats click or tap the screen right there that's going to give you more information about this product in this software all right i hope you like the video remember to give a thumbs up subscribe below my name is matthew continue creating music we will talk soon peace out

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Length: 17min 31sec (1051 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 06 2020