Having some trouble with my MPD24

Hey Goffer - that sounds tricky... not sure what might be causing that of the top of my head.

Just out of interest, do you know whether your laptops USB is working totally fine? Can you plug other USB devices into it ok?

Also, do you know whether the laptop has USB1.1 or USB2.0?

How about the desktop PC?

Oh the other thing is, you know the MPD should pretty much just work with whatever program you're using? You don't need to run the Uniquest software before hand, or at least I didn't. The software is for when you really want to start making detailed custom presets, which perhaps is what you're trying to do? Just thought I'd mention that anyway.

Hmmm weird. Have you tried any other software with it?

Perhaps there are other Ableton users reading this that can help as well?

Hmm I see what you mean.

What operating system is that?

ok i figured it out. my webcam drivers were fucking everything up. now the painful process to get both to work together.

Alright so the only was I was able to get it to work was buy letting windows install a digital camera device driver for the webcam. I dont get all the nifty features on it anymore but at least i can use my MPD. I'll just have to wait until Logitech releases some drivers that dont try to control everything. I'm still searching for an archive of old driver but have come to no prevail.

I finally got my mpd24 today and OMG!! i have almost the same setup as goffer but i still can't get my mpd24 to work. Last week I bought the Axiom 49in1 midi controller and Reason 3.0. I already did the update to Reason 3.04 and also installed the following programs: Enigma, Uniquest mpd24, FXpansion BDFLite. My Axiom works fine with Reason, but after i tried hooking up my mpd, it wouldn't recognize the hardware. I tried all the usb ports i have available on my laptop (in fact, I unplugged my hub and whatever extra devices i had hooked up to my laptop just to see if i had any hardware conflicts but still nothing). what am i doing wrong? I don't know what else to do! I'm thinking of reinstalling my windows OS and starting from scratch. Should i uninstall the other programs? I plan to use only reason anyway! help me matt, you're my only hope!!

dude your quick! and yes i followed the Akai CD instructions for the Reason setup. I did the autoinstall and then after that didn't work I did the manual install where I copied files to the locations instructed. Still, nothing. It's already passed my midnight, i still have to get up for work in the morning, and i'm frustrated as hell! I won't sleep right until i get my new toy to work. can you believe i've had this on special order since September? All this anticipation and all i get is a headache!!!

Dam thats gotta be annoying. Try installing Grizzly and see if it works with that would be my next move if I were you, to double check whether its an installation issue, or an MPD/reason issue.

Thanks for the compliments about my tracks too, I enjoyed making them

Hey neomaxizoomdweebie, I also experienced that... First when I used my my mpd24 it works fine and all controls are functioning.. But when I had to start all over again coz I reformatted my PC... Reason doesn't detect the mpd24 even if I followed all the instructions like placing the reason remote file to reason's... So what I did is, I go to the "preference" of Reason and then click "control surfaces" and click the "add" button below and then click "others" and then there will be three selections to choose, Choose the MIDI Keyboard with controls... and That's it that's what I did to make all the pads, knobs, and faders work... But except the transport controls... WHICH IS NOT NECESSARY in my opinion coz like you said you have your M-audio Axiom keyboard working on reason and Axiom has a transport control also, so just use the Transport controls on your Axiom and party with your mpd24... Hope this will help you...

its somewhat comforting to know someone else is having problems!

I've been working on this for three days straight, and have gotten nowhere!

I'm running PT7.3, Battery 3, and FM8 on a MacBOok. MPD24 is running via usb. The first time I installed it, it worked fine. It showed up in the Audio/Midi Setup like it was supposed to and then I tried to run it again and got nothing. I've reinstalled rebooted, and emailed AKAI, who aren't open on the weekend. I've installed the UNIQUEST software, and reinstalled it. I have no idea. I'm ready to pull out my hair. HELP!!!!

I have reason 3.0 & an akai
mpd24 that triggers reason perfectly and all the functions work except the
sequence (rec, rew, play) button on the akai don't trigger the sequencer to
start in reason. I spent all night (literally) up trying to follow all the
steps that akai & reason said to make it work, but no luck. I was wondering if anyone might be able to guide me in the right direction.

Hey great stuff Neo - it'll be cool to hear some of your sounds when you've got it all cranking along, and also to see some pics of the new and improved studio ;)

Hey whats up Eazy - You saying you put in the MIDI input/output, *and* the USB? If so, that won't work - it needs to be *either* the USB cable *or* the MIDI output cable. Also if you use a MIDI cable option, you'll need a powerpack to power the MPD24.

Let me know which you were using, and we'll take it from there...

Ah I see gotcha. Hmm if it says its working properly, I would have thought it would be able to trigger stuff in Reason via the pads at least. In reason have you added it up as a MIDI device?

You know there are some files you need to copy from a Reason directory on your MPD24 CD right?

Yeah I think from memory thats the one - its a bit annoying that I don't have my software installed right now, just done a full windows reinstall recently, so I can't check my own settings...

So when you click the MIDI-input dropdown box under the Control Surface settings page, you don't see a USB device option?

Yeah sounds like it might be similar - most people just have the USB option come up right away, once those Reason files from the CD have been copied over. I don't recall having to setup anything else. If I think of anything else once I've got my software reinstalled I'll let you know.

If you get it fixed in the meantime let us know here too, as it might help any others who have the same problem with detection.

Hey one thing - presumably your computer runs USB2.0? (as opposed to the old USB1.1) I'm guessing it does, as all computers have for several years now, but just thought I'd check, because I suspect it wouldn't work with USB 1.1

Oh cool thats one more thing ticked off. Have you tried any other software? Like perhaps something like Grizzly (search maketunes for it), just to test whether you can get any midi data from the MPD?

Also, have you messed with the MPD presets at all? I don't think I touched them to begin with, but then flicked through to one of the presets - Reason has one of its own doesn't it?

yes im using windows, and yes i saw one of the usb items that said "enhanced" next to it

Cool! Sounds like you're almost there! After making sure you've got the MPD showing in Control Surfaces section of preferences, just load up Redrum when you get a chance, and when thats selected you should be able to trigger its samples...

I haven't used BFDlite, I never bothered with it - though I hear its meant to be quite good so I really should take a look some time.

Anyway, I don't know whether its possible to extract the samples from BFDlite - if they're stored as straight WAV files in the BFDlite folder in Program Files you could simply copy them, and load the specific samples into Redrum - but I suspect BFDlite probably don't want that to happen, so I'd bet that the samples are not that easy to move around.

Do you have any other software apart from Reason? If you have a VST host (like Flstudio, Cubase, the free Reaper), you could load BFDlite as a VST, and Reason via Rewire, and have both of them running at the same time in your music... or simply BFDlite alongside whatever else you're wanting to use (eg - another synth VST)

Well if you've got Reason Redrum working with the MPD24, you can load whatever WAV samples you want into that... or you could download the free sampler vst Grizzly - i'm pretty sure that can run as a standalone? Unfortunately as far as I know both of those only use 8 pads at a time.

I prefer to use NI Battery - it uses up to like 128 samples per patch, which is very cool.

No idea sorry, not an flstudio user. All i know about fl is that it can be used as a VST host, so if you've got other vst samplers etc, you can load them into flstudio alongside the rest of your song.

Flstudio users check out this MPD24 / FLstudio guide just posted:

http://www.maketunes.com/forums/please-help-fl-feat-akai-mpd24#comment-1...

Hi FunkVoce, yup thats a pretty annoying situation to be put in isn't it. Being forced to choose one or the other. I'd say definitely contact both manufacturers and see if they're even aware of the apparent hardware clash, and who knows, they might even offer a workaround solution?

Ok sorry to bother you guys again, but i went to the akaipro website to download the latest drivers and reason remote files, still no go, reason just cant find it. After i selected the Akai from the list im supose to change the Inport and Outport to USB Audio Device, but i dont see them in the dropdown list. I deleted the drivers for my logitech webcam as well because ive seen alot of comments about that. I just need to know if the MPD is really working and not broken.. I'm really out of ideas, can somebody pleeeeeease help me.