Thank you, very helpful!

Hero! Was struggling with this!!

Akai does such a poor job of updating, i am dfone bying their products

So this works somewhat like a virtual Audio Interface..

Big ups! I think the reason people might be downvoting your actually helpful video, is because they can't get Voicemeeter to work properly on it's own first. This video being specific to how to run it within Maschine is actually massively helpful to people like me, that have gotten it to run, just hadn't figured out how to route it to record into maschine itself, yet. Your vid got me to the desired solution. Great success!

Brotha! Thank you soooo much, I bought this for my daughter and she want to learn how to make lofi beats. We been struggling with the mapping, but your video has really helped us! Wish you nothing but Peace Love and Blessings!

Just press and hold "PROG SELECT" then press "PAD 4" It will bring the mapping for MPD218, without need to re-map it all. Nice video, thanks!

Followed every step and i can now hear KZbin audio in my MPC Beats software. The challenge i have now is everything is echoing thru my monitors...suggestion?

where do i get the editor software ? im not able to find it on the website

how much is your uhhh..... lunch?

im an enabler

why MPC beats dont recognize my MPD 218 in mini/sync inputs? i made all the config but still not sounds

Ive got everything setup like you explained but im not getting any playback sound...

@3kbeatz this was super helpful. Thank you so much

Question, how do you set the Q-links knobs so they don't jump forward as soon as you touch one (then you have to turn it back) for it to start registering. On the MPC Studio they go the direction you turn them w/o the initial jump. They also do the jump forward thing on the MPD226 just like the MPD 218. Thank you in advance if you have any info on how to resolve the jump forward issue.

for some reason it did not give me the option to bind correctly in program 5 because the id of 8 and 12 were both 44 so how i fixed that issue is to bind everything correctly to program 1 instead

I lose the binding interface in the middle of the screen and i can't find how to reopen it... help...

Thank you for this!!

Thank You bro!! Peace and love..from Colombia

Can anyone help me? I followed these instructions and now have my pads mapped to the correct notes chromatically. However, the drums are all over the place and even if I try and remap again Pad 1 controls Pad 2 on the screen (and vice versa) the rest of the pads seem to be totally random with most of them being silent and one of them switches the banks "ctrl banks". This stuff is epically unusable.

I put mine into learn mode andI select a pad and hit a pad on my MPD218 and it refuses to learn, pad 1 triggers pad 2, pad 2 triggers pad 7. Driving me mad. I remember when I had essentials (which I preferred by the way) there was a controller configuration tool you loaded which selected a specific patten of the controller to use, I had to do it for essentials to make it all line up. Do I need to do that as well? Thanks

Thanks for the information! Do you know how to map mpd218 or any other controller to MPC sequences or play mpd218 in song mode in MPC?

How do yo use 16 levels

nice video, congrats from brazil

Akai 218

Thanks a lot bro . Peace from the Bronx

Is all this info applicable and the same(virtually) if you are running mpc beats on FL

Thank you for clearly explaining how to clean up the mapping issue and enhance the MPD218's potential. I gave up on this unit a year ago until I came across your tutorial today. Gratitude!!!

Thanks this is very helpful for me and others

If I do this, everyone says it eventually get garbled again. So it's going back to Cali. Now which is reliable?

Great video, struggling to use PAD Bank B and C. I have mapped everything else...

Thank You . Mine was switching to pad set D each time i hit pad#4

That you for proving why I shouldn't get this product.

Bro..your tutorials are life savers 👊🏽💪🏽Peace 2 You Big Homey!!!

Thank you sir!! Well done!

is there a way of getting a float/int reading for each of the analogue controls on the left for programming purposes or no?

The set up screen is my problem.. I downloaded but It won't open up?

This is the best midi mapping video I've seen Thank you!!

I saw a lot of videos criticising the MPD218 itself for double triggering, but it was all the factory mapping that was the problem after all?

Have you tried out the MPD18? Not the 218 but 18?

Thank you so much. I was really confused as my Akai was terribly mapped. This helped me so much.

Awesome vid my dude save me alot of time and fustration . this vid was like a relief to my headache. thanks a million

ive tried to map it it wont allow me to

Hi does the Akai mpd 218 have 16 levels?

can I use this with cakewalk or is that just a bad idea? I want to use a free DAW atm

all my pads are out of wack, wtf

Very odd that a controller made by Akai to control their own software doesn't work out the box lol 😂

this is literally the only video that helped me compared to the others with millions of views. Thank you, you saved my brain from being fried

Great video 💯👍 I’ve waisted coffee on my 218 and lost one pad. So I went on Amazon and ordered the mpd226 but didn’t realize that you were supposed to do what your doing in order to get all the knobs working in q-link now I know 👍💯 thanks a Million

My God this helped so much my man. Thank you 🙏🏽 I thought this was only my stuff that was tripping lol