Connecting a MIDI Controller via Bluetooth It’s worth using a powered USB hub to ensure all your USB gear receives enough juice – I have this 7 port RSHTECH USB 3.0 hub which has a solid metal construction and works well.Īfter connecting your keyboard via USB you should find that it is immediately usable – hit the keys and they will begin playing notes from whatever program is selected in the current MIDI sequence. Here’s the set up using my Arturia Minilab 2ĭon’t have a spare USB A port on your MPC? Simply use a USB hub to give you additional USB ports. To attach a USB MIDI Controller, simply connect the USB ‘B’ port of your controller to a spare USB ‘A’ port on your MPC. If you have a ‘class compliant’ USB MIDI control keyboard with a USB output then it should be compatible with your MPC (it’s always worth asking around on or one of the MPC Facebook groups just to double check compatibility before purchasing). We have workarounds such as PAD PERFORM and the arpeggiator, but for many instrument performances it’s often preferable to use an external MIDI controller, typically a MIDI keyboard with more playable keys, mod wheels, pitch bend control etc.Īnd as we’ll see, we can easily hook up multiple controllers to the MPC giving us the flexibility to assign different types of controllers to different instruments. The pads are perfect for playing drums but often don’t have the necessary expressiveness when playing melodic instruments. The most common way for inputing these events is to use the MPC pads – in fact, the MPC pads are the MPC’s own built in MIDI controller. This can be done programatically using the GRID, LIST EDIT, step sequencer or even by loading MIDI files, but MIDI events can also be recorded or performed in real time directly into the sequencer.
The MIDI events used to trigger all these sounds all initially need to be inputted into the MPC sequencer. Even the events used to play back the drum sounds in a DRUM program are still MIDI events. What is a MIDI Controller?Īt the heart of the MPC is a powerful MIDI sequencer which can trigger sounds from any MIDI enabled sound source, be it internal samples assigned to a KEYGROUP program, sounds generated by an internal plugin synth or sounds generated by attached hardware synths.
You can download the tutorial files here, but to recreate the examples you’ll need to attach a MIDI controller to your MPC (and for the last part you’ll need two controllers connected). This MPC MIDI tutorial is suitable for all the current standalone touchscreen MPCs MPC X, MPC One, MPC Live and MPC Live II running MPC Firmware 2.8 or greater.
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