Specifications

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Akai
MPD24
The Remote codec and mapping for the MPD24 was written by Akai. The files are
included with Reason version 4 courtesy of Akai.
Requirements/Setting up:
• Reason will automatically find the MPD24 if you click the Auto-
detect button on the Control Surfaces and Keyboards page in the
Preferences.
About the controls:
The MPD24 has 16 pads, 6 faders and 8 knobs, plus transport controls.
About the default mapping:
D General mapping
The transport controls on the MPD24 are mapped to the corresponding con-
trols in the Reason main sequencer. Pads 13 and 14 select previous and next
patch where applicable. Pad 15 selects previous track and pad 16 selects
next track in the sequencer.
D Mixer 14:2
There are five keyboard shortcut variations: “Level and Pan 1-6”, “Level and
Pan 7-12”, “Level and Send 1-6”, “Level and Send 7-12” and “Level and Send
13-14”.
When the “Level and Pan” variations are selected, the faders control the levels
and the knobs control the pan.
When the “Level and Send 1-6 and 7-12” variations are selected, the faders
control the levels and the knobs control the Aux 1 sends.
When “Level and Send 13-14” is selected, faders 1-2
control channels 13 and 14 levels and fader 6 controls Master Level. Knob 1-
2 control channel 13-14 Aux 1 send and knobs 5-8 control Aux 1-4 return
levels.
D Line Mixer 6:2
There are two keyboard shortcut variations: “Level and Pan” and “Level and
Send”.
When the “Level and Pan” variations are selected, the faders control the levels
and the knobs control the pan.
When the “Level and Send” variation is selected, the faders control the levels
and the knobs control the Aux sends.
D Subtractor
There are three keyboard shortcut variations: “Filter & Env”, “Osc” and “Mod”.
Pad 13 selects previous patch and pad 14 selects next patch.
In “Filter & Env” mode the faders and knobs control filter and amp parameters.
In “Osc” mode the faders and knobs control the Osc 1 & 2 parameters.
In “Mod” mode the faders control the Mod Env parameters and the knobs con-
trol the other modulation parameters.
D Malström
There are four keyboard shortcut variations: “Filters”, “OscA”, “OscB” and
“Modulators”.
Pad 13 selects previous patch and pad 14 selects next patch.
The faders and knobs control the different parameter groups Filters, Oscillator
A, Oscillator B and Modulators depending on selected keyboard shortcut vari-
ation.
D Redrum
There are six keyboard shortcut variations: “Level and Pan 1-5”, “Level and
Pan 6-10”, “Level and Pitch 1-5”, “Level and Pitch 6-10”, “Length and Pitch 1-
5“ and “Length and Pitch 6-10”. In all variations pads 1-4 select Banks A-D,
pads 5-8 select Patterns 5-8 and pads 9-12 select Patterns 1-4. Knob 1
controls Flam Amount, knob 2 is used for patch selection and fader 6 controls
Master Level.
When the “Level and Pan” variations are selected the faders control the drum
levels and the knobs control the drum pan.
When the “Level and Pitch” variations are selected the faders control the
drum levels and the knobs control the drum pitches.
When the “Length and Pitch” variations are selected the faders control the
drum lengths and the knobs control the drum pitches.
D BV-512 Vocoder
There are five keyboard shortcut variations: “Band 1-6”, “Band 7-12”, “Band
13-18”, “Band 19-24” and “Band 25-32”. In all variations knobs 2-8 control
the BV-512 panel parameters.
The faders control the band levels in the respective variations.