Specifications

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MPK49
The Remote codec and mapping for the MPK49 was written by Akai. The files are
included with Reason version 4 courtesy of Akai.
Requirements/Setting up:
• To use the MPK49 with Reason version 4, you should select MIDI
channel 1 on the MPK49.
• Reason will automatically find the MPK49 if you click the Auto-
detect button on the Control Surfaces and Keyboards page in the
Preferences.
About the controls:
The MPK49 has 49 keys, 12 pads, 8 switches, 8 faders and 8 knobs, plus trans-
port controls. There are 4 pad banks allowing for a total of 48 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 MPK49 are mapped to the corresponding con-
trols in the Reason main sequencer.
Switches 15 and 16 select previous and next patch on the target device.
Switches 7 and 8 select previous and next track in the sequencer.
Switches 23 and 24 select previous and next keyboard shortcut variation.
Mod Wheel and Pitch Bend control the corresponding functions in Reason.
Channel pressure controls channel pressure/aftertouch in Reason.
Damper Pedal controls damper pedal.
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 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 10, 7, 4 and 1 select Bank A-D.
Pads 11, 8, 5, 2, 12, 9, 6 and 3 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.