(upbeat trap music) - What's up guys, it's your boy, KKREX and welcome back to
another one of my videos. So, I know I've been gone
for a minute but I actually have a video that was
highly requested by you guys and it's a tutorial on
using the AKAI MPK Mini. So, I looked on youtube for a
little bit to see if there's any tutorials on there and
there are some, but they're not really in-depth and they're
more on the software so I'm actually going to do one
of the actual mini itself and hopefully you guys can
learn something and enjoy it and actually maybe get one for yourselves. Because I actually highly
recommend this pad. So, hopefully you guys
enjoy this video and let's get into it. Alright guys, so when you get
the Akai MPK Mini, it comes in this box. And there's like
a user manual, there's the website to go to for the software etc etc. And then it comes with this
cable. This cable just has USB at the end and I'm plugging
that into my MacBook Pro, which is a 15-inch, 2015
MacBook Pro and it just opens to a GarageBand so I can
actually make a sound and you guys can hear it. So, alright guys, I'm gonna
start from the top left of the midi and then we're
going to move right and I'll show you everything that it
does etc etc and like how you guys can use it because
this is a tutorial on how to use it, not just what it does. So, if we start on the
top-left, you can see this red knob right there.I'll just
pick it up so you guys can see it closer. That's
that. It's a knob right. It's the pitch bend so for
example- if I hold C and move it to the right, it'll go up or vice-versa. (keyboard plays) So, that's all that does. Alright, when you look below
the pitch bend, you'll see an arpeggiator, on and
off and a tap tempo. So, arpeggiator is really fun
for me. I really like using it So for example when I try the arpeggiator, I can just tap
the tempo. See, it's blinking That's the tempo it's set at.
But for example if I wanted to slow it down, I'll be
like- one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four So, now the lights should be
blinking on the one's and two's and three's. So now, if I
hold down a note, my bad. It should sound on that
beat, so like this. (keyboard playing) Alright guys, so this is
something I haven't seen anybody talk about on YouTube yet.
So, on top of the keys for the arpeggiator there's
things like right there, you guys can see and it's 1/4
and then 1/4T which is 1/4th triplet, and then 1/8th, 1/8th
triplet, 1/16th same thing. And then, up and down is
like if you wanted to go up the notes for your arpeggiator or down. So, I'll show you how it works. So, in order to set that
in, alright when you focus. Alright, in order
for it to set it you have to hold down the arpeggiator
button, which is the top left button right here. You hold
it down and say I want it to be a 1/8th triplet and I want to go up. So now when I try it on,
let's say I wanna play F You see, that's what it would do. Or for example, if I wanted
to go a little bit faster and get a 1/16th triplet.
I just go like that after I hold it down and it should be in. So, (Funky tune) Yeah you see, so the Arpeggiator
is actually kind of fun to use and if you use it
right, you can actually make something really fire. Okay guys, so under the
Arpeggiator you have the octaves and there are 10 octaves
on this midi. So, it's kind of self explanatory. So, obviously... let's use a C and you hit the octave up, it turns red. And if you're going to press
it again, it's going to blink which indicates as going up so
that's the blink. That's up. One more time. Okay so now, if
no lights are on, that means there's no octave up or down.
This is the actual sound of middle C, same thing going down. So, kind of self-explanatory. Okay, now below the Octaves,
there are two buttons that all have to do with the pads. So, it's full level and note repeat. So full level, it's kind of
self-explanatory as well cause the pads are like pressure
sensitive. So if I press it softly, you barely hear it
but, if I press it hard. (Loud noise) So, it's pressure sensitive
so if I turn on full level, it'll light up red, right. It's on right now, which is
the bottom left button and if I press it, no matter how
soft or how hard it'll be the same like full sound
so this is a soft press. This is just soft. And if I press hard vs You see, that's what full
level does and then note repeat is you just press it for example
if I hold down note repeat which is the button right
here and I hold this down It's going that fast because
of the 1/16th triplet that I put before. Okay so now we
just got through the pads and all the buttons and knobs
here. The keyboards is just a regular keyboard. It's just a normal, you know regular, nothing special. Whatever you, you can see
everything you need to see. I might just show you a closeup
of it. Just to show you, just the keyboard. Alright, Okay now to the top
right corner, those knobs affect these pads here and
they give you a software that you can use to put into
these knobs to make them do something, I guess cool. You
can put kind of effects on it and each one effects each pad differently. And then, in terms of the
buttons here, lemme show you. There you go. There's Bank
A and Bank B which is green The pads here are a certain
set of pads and then when you click it, it turns red and
then different set of pads. So for example, oh sorry. For example- if I go into I'm just going to type in a drumkit. I'm in GarageBand by the
way guys. Alright, so When it's A It's just like a tong, but
when I change it to Bank B it should have all new
sounds. It should be a kick. Right, so I'll show you
again with a different one. Say this one, with Bank A and Bank B. Alright guys, so next to the
Bank A, Bank B you'll see the middle button, which is
a CC and then the one to the right is Program change and
then the one all the way to the right is Program select.
So, if you want to change the program, for which they'll
give you a software that'll let you be able to edit
each pad individually. You press program change right,
and then you'll hold down program select and then if
you can see it, above the pads itself, like next to program
5, I mean next to pad 5 you'll see Program 1, Pad 6-
program 2, Pad 7- program 3 and Pad 8-program 4 and you
can see the top in the red. There's just hold it down
select any program you want and then your pads should act differently depending on program you select. So, other than that, that's
all you need to know about the AKAI MPK mini mk2. On the
side, is where you plug in the plug they give you and
on the back, as you can see right there, if you could
focus, there's the sustain. Just plug it in, so you
could hold out your notes. Alright so, these are the
programs that come with the Akai which is MPC Essentials,
Hybrid 3 and Wobble. So I'll show you what they
look like in the back, just in case you guys are interested.
I don't usually- ooh my bad. I don't usually use them
because I prefer GarageBand and it's kind of hard to I learn or I haven't spend the time but that's what they are. These are the different
interfaces that shows you what each one of them does and
this one down here is the main one you should use, if you
are changing the pads or using the knobs that give
different effects. So, that's it. That's pretty much everything
that comes with it. I'll show you if I can quick that. You can pause the video and
read that if you want to. That should show you everything you need and that's pretty much it. So, alright guys, that was
the tutorial slash review on the AKAI MPK mini mk2 . I
really hope you enjoyed it and don't worry cause I'm going
to be making a beat for my next video and I actually
have some fired that's waiting for you guys. I'll give
you a little sneak peek at what it sounds like.
It's going to be good. So, I hope you enjoyed that,
I hope that helped. Let me know what questions you have
slash if it helped you and this is gonna be kind of what
next video is going to sound like. Let's see if it'll
play it for you guys. (ambient music) Alright guys, that's all
for now, so come back very very soon cause this video
will be up like how I made it and everything and I actually
had help with this video. Some of my friends helped me
out, so I want to say shout out to you guys and this video
is going to be really lit. So, I hope you guys enjoyed
this one, see you guys very soon and thanks for rocking with
me through that little pause. kkrex out, stay positive (Upbeat trap music)
