{"id":658,"date":"2012-12-28T20:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tcustomz.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2014-01-06T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:31:03","slug":"modifying-your-akai-mpd-midi-controller-for-much-better-sensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/modifying-your-akai-mpd-midi-controller-for-much-better-sensitivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Modifying your Akai MPD Midi Controller Pads for MUCH Better Sensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A couple years ago I bought my Akai MPD32 (upgraded from an M-Audio Trigger Finger). I did not realize, until after hooking it up to my PC, that the responsiveness of the pads was so bad.\u00a0 After searching this issue on the web, I found that many people were DIY modifying their MPD controllers. I modified my MPD32 within days of buying it, and I&#8217;m SO very glad that I did! The responsiveness is now awesome!<\/p>\n<p>This is the step-by-step video that I used to modify my pads:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"726\" height=\"545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZViS288WH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shout out to the guy who put together this vid &#8211; a lot of really great information! In this video he is using electrical tape to fill in the gap between the pad and sensor. Or you can also buy a &#8220;pad sensitivity upgrade kit&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Pad-Sensitivity-Upgrade-Kit-for-Akai-MPD-MPD32-MPD24-\/120539593513\" target=\"_blank\">like this one<\/a>) for your MPD controller. The kit is basically just a set of 16 rubbers squares that sit on the inside of each pad. Either method will work just fine &#8211; it&#8217;s really just a matter of preference.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this upgrade to anyone using one of the Akai MPD controllers &#8211; you won&#8217;t regret it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago I bought my Akai MPD32 (upgraded from an M-Audio Trigger Finger). I did not realize, until after hooking it up to my PC, that the responsiveness of the pads was so bad.\u00a0 After searching this issue\u00a0[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[271,138,24,412],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-producer-tips-tutorials","tag-how-to","tag-mpc","tag-mpd32","tag-step-by-step","post-1","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}