Specifications

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MPD32
The Remote codec and mapping for the MPD32 was written by Akai. The files are
included with Reason version 4 courtesy of Akai.
Requirements/Setting up:
• Reason will automatically find the MPD32 if you click the Auto-
detect button on the Control Surfaces and Keyboards page in the
Preferences.
About the controls:
The MPD32 has 16 pads, 8 switches, 8 faders and 8 knobs, plus transport con-
trols. There are 4 pad banks allowing for a total of 64 pad assignments and 3
control banks for a total of 24 switch assignments, 24 fader assignments and 24
knob assignments.
About the default mapping:
D General mapping
The transport controls on the MPD32 are mapped to the corresponding con-
trols in the Reason main sequencer.
Switch 15 selects previous patch on the target device.
Switch 16 selects next patch on the target device.
Switch 7 selects previous track in the sequencer.
Switch 8 selects next track in the sequencer.
Switch 23 selects previous keyboard shortcut variation.
Switch 24 selects next keyboard shortcut variation.
Footswitch 1 is damper pedal
Footswitch 2 selects Click On/Off
D Mixer 14:2
There are five keyboard shortcut variations: “Level Pan Mutes1 1-14”, “Level
Sends Mutes1 1-14”, “Level Sends Mutes2 1-14”, “Level Sends Mutes3 1-
14” and “Level Sends Mutes4 1-14”.
For all variations, fader 8 controls the master level.
In the Level Pan Mutes1 1-14 variation, the faders control the levels, the
knobs control the pan and the switches control the mute.
In the Level Sends Mutes1 1-14 variations, the faders control the levels, the
knobs control respective aux 1 send and the switches control the mute.
The Level Sends Mutes2 1-14 variation has the same mapping except that
the knobs control the aux 2 send. The remaining two variations work in the
same fashion but with aux 3 send and aux 4 send instead.
D Thor
There are no keyboard shortcuts for Thor. All faders, switches and knobs con-
trol most of the Thor parameters. Knobs 7 and 8 control Rotary 1 and 2 re-
spectively.
D Redrum
There are two keyboard shortcut variations: “Level and Pan 1-8” and “Level
and Pan 9-10”. In both variations pads 1-4 select Banks A-D, pads 5-8 select
Patterns 5-8 and pads 9-12 select Patterns 1-4.
When the “Level and Pan 1-8” variation is selected, faders 1-8 control the
drum levels, faders 9-16 control the pitches, faders 17-24 control the veloci-
ties, knobs 1-8 control the pan and knobs 9-16 control the lengths and knobs
17-24 control the Send 1 amount for drum channels 1-8.
When the “Level and Pan 9-10” variation is selected, the faders and knobs
control the corresponding parameters for drum channels 9 and 10 instead.
D BV-512 Vocoder
There are three keyboard shortcut variations: “Band 1-24”, “Mod Level 1-24”
and “Mod Band 25-32”. In all variations knobs 1-6 and switches 1-2 control
the BV-512 panel parameters.
In the “Band 1-24” variation faders 1-24 control the levels for bands 1-24.
In the “Mod Level 1-24” variation faders 1-24 control the mod levels for bands
1-24.
In the “Band Mod 25-32” variation faders 1-8 control the band levels for band
25-32 and faders 9-12 and 21-24 control the mod level for bands 25-32.
D Matrix
Pads 1-4 select Bank A-D.
Pads 5-12 select Pattern 1-8.
Faders1-3 control the Matrix panel parameters.
Switch 1 controls Run and switch 2 controls Pattern Enable.
D RPG-8
Switches 1-6 and faders 1-6 control the RPG-8 panel parameters.
Switches 9-22 control pattern steps 1-12.