• Reviews around music (4.23 of 5)

    Akai Professional MPK Mini MKII White | 25-Key Ultra-Portable USB MIDI Drum Pad & Keyboard Controller with Joystick, VIP Software Download Included - Limited Edition

    • I highly recommend it for beginners getting started with music production like myself
    • My teen son is a beginner with making music and loves it!
    • Not much setup and installation is needed to be able to use it with your favorite music software and it uses USB connection, which is what makes it convenient and user-friendly, allowing compatibility with different systems or platforms and quick installation
    • I still haven’t figured out how to use this, but it turns out you need to download a music program like Fruity Loops or something
    • Make amazing music with this mpk board
    • But keys are not like in a real piano - without proper pressure control, hard to press and you can't play complex music on it.
    • I'll echo a lot of the other low ranking comments here - I bought this for my son, who loves electronic music, and plays piano, so I thought it would be right up his alley.
    • Im not a pro, but I tought having this kind of item can make music making much easier and kind of a more fun
    • I won't even mention the annoying background music you have to listen to as you follow an online video on how to install the software, etc.
    • Follow ALL the guides to setup and you will be on your way to produce some awesome music!!
    • Don't get me wrong, I like electronic music and getting to hit flashing pads as much as the other guy, but that was the
    • I use the MPK Mini MKII for producing hip-hop, rap, R&B, and funky music
    • I absolutely love making music on this MIDI controller
    • now i am able to make better music with less efforts
    • As of right now I am pleased!!*music producer
    • He loves music and was hoping this would keep his hands
    • It's clear, neat, easy to use, and makes wonderful music out of many options I am so glad I got this
    • Makes amazing music with it
    • It's the perfect portable music tool!
    • There are tons of loops, kits, sounds plugins to get some great music of any genre created.
    • I chose this because of its popularity and price, however, installing and starting to make music is pretty difficult
    • Makes producing music much easier!
    • He has created his own beautiful music
    • This is quite good for what I use it for, making synthwave (check out buchty's SQL8 VST if you're writing synthwave, btw, amazing VST) and ambient music at home
    • It has really helped improved my music making skills, and the quality of my music
    • Music pros might love
    • So far our experience is that this is a great beginner music product that altho it's not "plug and
    • It sounded like it would be something really cool for a beginner like me to use to record some cool music
    • Makes awesome music compositions in Reason
    • I'm mostly kidding about that last bit, but tools like this make it so much easier to record something that resembles respectable music.
    • If you can tap out the melody of a song, you can essentially write beautiful music
    • The portability is excellent and I still primarily use this controller for recording — even at home — instead of my larger and better M-Audio controllers
    • but i like it, easy to set up, even though it will take some time learning, it works like a charm when you get it all set up to your liking!
    • Worked well until the C, D and A keys on the lower octave all stopped working across all platforms