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gljubojevic / akai-mpk-mini-editor

Akai MPK Mini editor using Web MIDI api
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Device setup #1

Open gilbertohasnofb opened 5 years ago

gilbertohasnofb commented 5 years ago

Do you have some more instructions on how to configure my Akai Mini to work with the link of your project at https://gljubojevic.github.io/akai-mpk-mini-editor/ ? I click on Device Setup in the dropdown menu but nothing happens, and I don't seem to be able to link my keyboard with the page.

gljubojevic commented 5 years ago

First of all thank you for interest in project :) It is really unfinished and currently works in read only mode and device setup does nothing really.

I haven't looked at project as you can see in commits for last two years, now I see that it has two forks and 10 stars, so it seams it is time to finish it :) However it will take me few days to do it depending on my free time.

How did you find it anyway?

gilbertohasnofb commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the reply!

How did you find it anyway?

I recently bought an Akai Mini and I could not make the official software run under Wine on my Linux Mint 18.3 machine. Many people say that the software runs fine on Ubuntu, but for some reason it always crashes on launch, so I've been searching for alternatives since then. I remember coming across some Python scripts to alter Akai presets once, and while searching GitHub I came across your project.

It is really unfinished and currently works in read only mode and device setup does nothing really.

I see, I thought it was some configuration issue on my side.

However it will take me few days to do it depending on my free time.

I actually found out yesterday that the Akai Mini presets stay saved in the device memory after they are altered, so I managed to plug it on a Windows machine and set up the first preset for how I like it. So my issue with the CC configuration of my knobs is solved for now. That said, it would be great to have the option of doing this under Linux, both for me in the future but also for other users that might be facing the same issue and who don't have a spare Windows machine to configure their presets.

Wilco1975 commented 3 years ago

Hello, I'm also here to try and find a way to edit my First Generation MPK mini now that MacOS no longer supports the 32 bit editor software. Have you made any more progress on this project? Thanks

gljubojevic commented 3 years ago

Hi, as you can see I haven't done anything on this project for a long time, sorry for that... Looks like there is growing demand :) to support this HW, unfortunately I haven't been able to find time to work on it.

All that said...

I still believe that browser based editors for MIDI controllers are best choice for future and I'm looking for someone to either help with this or at least bring it to usable state. Since AKAI distributes 3 new versions of MPK Mini it would be nice to support them all but I only have original MPK mini for testing....

I'm not really musician @Wilco1975 and I'm wandering what is reason you would use editor beyond resetting device and reloading factory settings? Do you for example think it would be good to have way of sharing different presets to e.g. extend support for different software people are using?

Real reason why I was doing all this was to:

Wilco1975 commented 3 years ago

Hi! My reasons are purely selfish. I just want to be able to reset my AKAI MPK mini o factory settings. If I could continue using it by creating different program files/setups, that would be great. As it is now, it’s stuck in some configuration I made years ago and can’t even see what CC the pads are sending. I know I’m not alone and I’m sure that there are many owners out there that would appreciate being able to extend the life of their MPK’s and not have to buy a new one. I’m not a programer at all (I only joined GitHub to be able to contact you) but am pretty good at following instructions and getting things to work so I’d be happy to help any way I can. I don’t know if people share custom configurations for the MPK but they do for TouchOSC and Touchable for instance so maybe they would.

gljubojevic commented 3 years ago

@Wilco1975 to help you reset to factory settings you can use on mac: https://www.snoize.com/SysExLibrarian/

I'm attaching here default presets in SysEx format (binary files) content of files is same as described: https://github.com/gljubojevic/akai-mpk-mini-editor

When you send them one by one to your Akai MPK Mini you will have 4 original presets without modifications. Presets_syx.zip

These files are same as original, just converted to SysEx librarian format, here are original: mpk_mini_presets_00.zip

Downloaded from here: https://www.akaipro.com/amfile/file/download/file/519/product/64/

Please make sure that you have original Akai MPK Mini: https://www.akaipro.com/mpk-mini

Hope this helps you :)

ehanuise commented 3 years ago

Hi. I just bought a mk3 mpk mini. I'm not a developer, but if you tell me what to do to get you the info you need for the device, I'll gladly help. (plus the software installer from Akai for the mk3 doesn't run on linux with wine, so I'm stuck with the factory presets.)

ehanuise commented 3 years ago

update - found a working mk3 editor :) https://github.com/tsmetana/mpk3-settings sysex table is in https://github.com/tsmetana/mpk3-settings/blob/master/src/message.h :-)

Wilco1975 commented 3 years ago

Hey, thanks for keeping me updated on this, I’ve been super busy and haven’t had time to return to this since we first communicated. I’ll be in touch and let you know how it goes.

Michael

On 27 Nov 2020, at 10:36 AM, Eric Hanuise notifications@github.com wrote:

update - found a working mk3 editor :) https://github.com/tsmetana/mpk3-settings https://github.com/tsmetana/mpk3-settings sysex table is in https://github.com/tsmetana/mpk3-settings/blob/master/src/message.h https://github.com/tsmetana/mpk3-settings/blob/master/src/message.h :-)

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n9yty commented 2 years ago

Also showing some interest because the other tools do not run on modern versions of macOS. I was so hopeful when I found this, but it seems to still be dormant. I understand life demands, but if you ever find time... :)

phedders commented 2 years ago

mpk3 support would be awesome :)

Yannicksahi commented 1 year ago

Hello... I'm having issues downloading the mpk mini software manager.. I'm able to open the installer but I can't download all the software in it including MPC BEATS.. when I click on download nothing happens... Is it possible someone can send me with those programs so I can install them.

rubimat commented 2 weeks ago

Hi ! Since the tool is not fully implemented yet I created a command line interface to read and flash configurations to the MPK mini 1. Generation in akai_mpk_mini_flasher. Hopes this helps in the meanwhile!