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AKAI Professional MPK Mini Play – USB MIDI Keyboard Controller With a Built in Speaker, 25 mini Keys, Drum Pads and 128 Instrument Sounds
Brand | AKAI |
Number of Keys | 25 |
Connectivity Technology | USB |
Special Feature | Portable, Backlit |
Model Name | MPK Mini Play |
About this item
- Standalone Piano Style Keyboard – Portable mini keyboard and USB MIDI controller with 25 velocity-sensitive synthesizer action keys, pitch/mod joystick control, plus 128 sounds and 10 drum kits
- Play Anywhere – Built in speaker, 1/8-inch headphone output and battery powered specification (3 x AA batteries – not included) for performing and producing on the go
- Beat Maker Essential – Two banks of eight ultra-responsive backlit MIDI drum pads with Note Repeat and Full Level functions for drum machine style performance and music production
- Tweak, Customize – Two banks of four knobs (eight total) to tweak internal sounds or software parameters; in standalone mode control chorus, reverb, filter, EQ and envelope controls
- The MPC Production Experience - Includes MPC Beats Software complete with the finest features and essential production tools from the Akai Professional MPC Series
- Pro Software Suite – Includes Akai Pro MPC Beats, AIR Music Tech Hybrid 3 and SONiVOX Wobble (downloads)
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For beginners | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
Value for money | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
Quality of material | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 3.1 |
Portability | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.4 | — |
Tech Support | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 3.1 | — |
Sold By | — | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | DonnerDirect | Amazon.com |
number of keys | 25 | 25 | 37 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
hardware interface | usb | usb | usb | usb | usb | usb |
connectivity tech | USB | USB | USB | USB | USB | USB |
weight | 745 grams | 1.98 pounds | 2.78 pounds | 0.8 kilograms | — | 900 grams |
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Product information
Item Weight | 1.64 pounds |
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Product Dimensions | 1.83 x 6.8 x 12.29 inches |
ASIN | B07HDB12FM |
Item model number | MPKMiniPlay |
Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #2,874 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments) #18 in Computer Recording MIDI Controllers |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | October 11, 2018 |
Connector Type | USB |
Hardware Interface | USB |
Musical Style | Electronic |
Number of Keyboard Keys | 25 |
Power Source | USB bus powered, 3 x AA batteries |
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Product Description
Perform, Produce, Jam
Introducing the ultra-portable, go-anywhere MPK Mini Play, based on the world’s most popular MIDI controller — Akai Professional’s MPK Mini. Packed with 128 sounds, its own built-in speaker, 8 backlit MPC drum pads & knobs for editing your sounds and a 4-way joystick for simple, tactile control, and you have all you need to take your music on-the-go. Powered by 3 “AA” batteries, the MPK Mini Play is built for hours of wireless fun. You can also connect to a computer via USB port for plug-and-play MIDI capability. Don’t want to disturb others or simply looking to amplify MPK Mini Play? No sweat. Simply use the mini-audio output jack to connect headphones or virtually any external speaker, amplifier or mixer.
Express Yourself
At the heart of MPK Mini Play is a 25 key, velocity-sensitive synth-action mini keybed with octave up and down buttons to expand the keyboard to the full melodic range. With the iconic 4-way joystick for pitch and modulation control and a dedicated sustain pedal input, access all the tools to capture every subtle nuance of your performance.
Tweak, Customize
Make your sound your own. With dedicated filter and resonance control, take command of the timbre and tonality of MPK Mini Play’s stock sounds and fine-tune your signature sound. We even include EQ, filter, reverb and chorus controls for further customization – modulate your sound, add some space and truly take your sound to other-worldly heights.
Enhanced Performance
With an on-board arpeggiator, with tap tempo and multiple arp modes, creating retro-inspired synth lines or sourcing that initial idea to spark your creativity couldn’t be simpler. All the mainstay controls you come to expect from Akai Professional are also here, including Full Level and Note Repeat for unrestricted performance capability.
From the manufacturer
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Perform, Produce, Jam
Packed with 128 sounds, its own built-in speaker, 8 backlit MPC drum pads & knobs for editing your sounds and a 4-way joystick for simple, tactile control, and you have all you need.
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Enhanced Performance
All the mainstay controls you come to expect from Akai Professional are also here, including Full Level and Note Repeat for unrestricted performance capability.
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Ultra-Portable
With a built-in speaker, and long-life battery power via 3 x AA batteries (not included) Looking to practise late into the night – no problem, there’s even a 1/8-inch headphone output!
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Tweak, Customize
Make your sound your own! With dedicated filter and resonance control, take command of the timbre and tonality of MPK Mini Play’s stock sounds and fine-tune your signature sound.
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MPC Beats Software
Incorporating with the MPC workflow, MPC Beats features all the essential tools for pro production. Edit samples, mixdown your tracks, find any sound with the synth engines found on the legendary MPCs
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Premium Software Suite
Ignite your creativity wherever you are, then capture your honed performance with MPK Mini Play’s premium software suite including ProTools First, Hybrid 3 and Wobble.
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With 16 MPC Drum Pads, 6 Assignable Knobs, Note Repeat & Full Level Buttons, MPD218 provides additional hands on control.
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Not only a Studio Centerpiece
With its semi-weighted keybed and wide rage of hands-on controls, MPK261 is a controller equally suited to studio and live performances.
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All New MPC Studio
MPC Studio brings the total MPC experience to your computer by combining intuitive hardware control and innovative, inspiring software. Full MPC Software Included.
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About Akai Professional
Akai Professional entered the electronic music industry in 1984 with one purpose - to give artists the tools they need to express and explore new musical possibilities.
Since 1988, Akai has also become a household name like no other on the hip hop scene. With the development of its first MIDI Production Centre Akai wrote history by influencing the sound of hip hop and electronic music.
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Customers like the performance and portability of the audio midi controller. For example, they say it works well, is easy to use, and is good for traveling. Customers are also impresseded with the arpeggiator and the ability to tweak every aspect. Opinions are mixed on sound quality, key size, quality, and value.
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Customers like the performance of the audio midi controller. For example, they mention it works well, has awesome sounds, and is very useful. Some say that the built-in stuff is nice and the response is great. That said, most are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"...So the keyboard seems VERY useful for composing and for melodies -- just not for playing key-heavy pieces, which I cannot do right now anyway...." Read more
"...It's actually very good and responsive, everything works, and the only thing is that i havent figured out how to map the knobs, but that's about it...." Read more
"...BONUS: Love the Hybrid synth you download after purchase. It works well and integrates in my Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW seamlessly and has lots of..." Read more
"...Software is horrible on windows, so far I have yet to get the MPC software to work (refuses to activate and generates errors on hardware drivers)...." Read more
Customers appreciate the portability of the audio midi controller. They say it is a truly portable midi keyboard, good for traveling, and easy to take on the go. Customers also mention that it is very lightweight and easy for storage.
"...about all its features, the small keys help a lot and its size makes it very portable!..." Read more
"...Very portable, but the stick can get in the way sometimes" Read more
"...'s it's small and just tucks away below my main monitor and can be carried in a laptop or anywhere when inspiration strikes...." Read more
"Keyboards Portability is fantastic...." Read more
Customers find the audio midi controller easy to use as a beginner. They say it has an easy interface and sounds pretty cool. Customers also say it's perfect for beginners and will be even better as they grow up. They mention it has good beginner features as well as more advanced features. Customers say it is easy to just pick it up and play, and comes with loaded sounds.
"...As such, it IS also perfect for beginners or for beginners to electronic keyboards.I absolutely love the battery efficiency!!..." Read more
"...is synth is actually pretty cool for the unit's price point, has an easy interface, and sounds pretty cool through headphones or external speakers...." Read more
"...Works like a charm with MPC Beats, super easy to use. MPC beats automatically recognizes this keyboard and maps it correctly...." Read more
"...Has a ton of sounds to experiment with and is easy to setup out of the box...." Read more
Customers like the fun of the audio midi controller. They mention that it's great fun learning more everyday, fun to practice chords and little bars with, and very playable. They also say it'll be great for kids and perfect for playing everywhere without use of DAW.
"This is really really fun for people of any age to play with...." Read more
"...It plays very comfortably and is very lightweight and portable, easy to store in a laptop case, backpack, or small flat tote bag...." Read more
"...Not complicated. Built in speaker... and the arpeggiator is great fun. We hooked it up to an amp and the sounds really thump on a big rig. :)..." Read more
"...It's is almost not even fun to use with a Mackbook. Akai's website does not mention a fix for this in the foreseeable future...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the sound quality of the audio midi controller. Some mention that the sounds are really nice, the speaker is much better than the last version, and the sound bank is awesome with realistic string instruments. However, others say that the sound is only okay, and that the speaker only loud enough to be useful in. Some customers also mention that a medium press ends up sounding super quiet, and some customers also report a very high noise floor.
"...-- much better with headphones, although it does have sufficient volume to play without them...." Read more
"...feeling, and the keys don't go down as fluidly, and the built in sounds are only acceptable, but for a beginner, those shouldn't be the first thing..." Read more
"...small keyboard that makes sounds, takes batteries, and has its own built in speaker. It also can be used as a midi keyboard.“..." Read more
"...to implement it's benefits but seems way to complex and quiet for a beginner's keyboard, so if you don't have much knowledge of midi, look elsewhere." Read more
Customers are mixed about the key size of the audio midi controller. Some mention it's a great little keyboard, while others say that the keys are too small and narrow.
"...While I don't yet know all about all its features, the small keys help a lot and its size makes it very portable!..." Read more
"...The speaker is tinny and tiny. worse then a toy...." Read more
"...It also can be used as a midi keyboard.“Aren’t there other small keyboards like that?”..." Read more
"...of a personal instrument, but unfortunately it's like a cheap, tiny Swiss Army knife, with a dull 1" blade that folds in on itself, a nail file that..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the audio midi controller. Some mention that there are no issues with build quality, the hardware is nice enough, and holds up well at max volume. The keys and knobs feel natural and solid. However, other customers say that the volume to the speaker is very weak, the build quality feels pretty cheap, and the keys are unweighted and flimsy. The output is great, but these aren't built to last, and it has some flaws, mainly latency. However for the price you can't go wrong.
"...CONS:- speaker is way too quiet, minus 1 star!- no looping?..." Read more
"Pros:- Solid Build.- Nice keyboards.- Responsive.Cons:- Volume was super low and couldn't be increased.-..." Read more
"...For the price, the build quality feels pretty cheap. The keys are unweighted and flimsy. The pads are pretty solid, but quite insensitive...." Read more
"This hardware is really neat, nice that you can play it away from a computer (you will want to use headphones)...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the value of the audio midi controller. Some mention that it has great value with lots of options in software, while others say that it's cheap, not worth it at all, and overly expensive for the higher feature versions.
"It's a pretty good keyboard for it's price...." Read more
"...But it is NOT worth the extra $50 over the standard MkII. The speaker is tinny and tiny. worse then a toy...." Read more
"...Price was great too, very affordable.When you first get it, be sure to test out all the keys and pads...." Read more
"...Army Knife" of a personal instrument, but unfortunately it's like a cheap, tiny Swiss Army knife, with a dull 1" blade that folds in on itself, a..." Read more
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Basically, the volume is what other reviewers have said it was -- much better with headphones, although it does have sufficient volume to play without them. The octave key is really an ingenious idea I hadn't considered before!! I'm still getting used to it, but it's a GREAT idea for keeping the size and weight down.
The drum pads do work surprisingly well for something this small, and you get a good selection of percussion sounds!! Because of response time and the firmness with which you need to tap the pads, you can't really do fast or quick riffs, but they are much better than I expected.
There's also a good selection of instrument tones!! And you can program various functions that I haven't mastered yet, but which appear to offer some truly amazing effects, especially for a keyboard this size. It would probably sound awesome used as a midi player, which I haven't tried but which you can also do.
My only real comment is that you have to press the keys pretty firmly. They seem to require very deliberate key pressure, something I cannot currently do very well. So the keyboard seems VERY useful for composing and for melodies -- just not for playing key-heavy pieces, which I cannot do right now anyway. As such, it IS also perfect for beginners or for beginners to electronic keyboards.
I absolutely love the battery efficiency!! Truly a plus.
The unit as a whole has allowed me to use a piano keyboard generally, something I haven't been able to do for some time. For that, a big Thank You!!
i was unhappy with the "included" software because i had to install proprietary licensing software in order to use it. A basic grand piano patch and I have to fully enroll in a third party software and install it to my hard drive. Not cool.
as far as build quality, I haven't had any complaints. I general go easy with it but i have giant ape hands so most stuff breaks with me.
It synced up to my Logic Pro X easily enough and I was making beats and playing notes.
the overall experience, to me, justifies going past $32 for a midi controller. I "feel" less like an musical imposter and that changes all songwriting.
I guess being able to goof around (and use headphones with it) is worth it.
Also for recording midi "keyboard" performances in Cakewalk, sometimes you have to set the latency real low to play in-sync with other trax which often causes crashing if using other soft-synths, but with this, I can use the sounds of the AKAI from the headphone output and simultaneously record a midi performance without using the crash inducing soft-synths, then try out different soft-synths from the midi track after the recording session via my Universal Audio Apollo Twin Quad Thunderbolt sound card. Kinda hard to explain to a novice or to my midi challenged friends but this works great for solving that problem (it's complicated, you need a mixer, etc). Also love that's it's small and just tucks away below my main monitor and can be carried in a laptop or anywhere when inspiration strikes.
BONUS: Love the Hybrid synth you download after purchase. It works well and integrates in my Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW seamlessly and has lots of great sounds.
CONS:
- speaker is way too quiet, minus 1 star!
- no looping?
Does a lot for the pro home studio user who knows how to implement it's benefits but seems way to complex and quiet for a beginner's keyboard, so if you don't have much knowledge of midi, look elsewhere.
Everything about this is great and works perfect except for those dials don't work on The MCP beats digital audio workstation or DAW, whatever you want to call it But again you can still adjust them with your mouse
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2023
Everything about this is great and works perfect except for those dials don't work on The MCP beats digital audio workstation or DAW, whatever you want to call it But again you can still adjust them with your mouse
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Practice is a bugbear going to the piano but with this it’s easy to do 20 minutes a day and get better. Having its own sounds running on batteries (battery life is outstanding) is ideal.
Anschluß an den Computer ist sehr einfach und zuverlässig - die Anmeldeprozedur dürfte nach meinem Geschmack etwas schneller sein, ist aber nicht schwierig nur etwas umständlich.
Ich hatte dennoch leider Pech, das Gerät das bei mir eintraf war ... nun ja ... - es kam aus der Amazon Reparaturwerkstatt (A214299PL) - klare 0 Sterne Bewertung!!! Verpackt in einer Tüte, ohne Kabel und Installationsanweisung ... und obendrein auch noch Defekt! Keinen Laut hat es von sich gegeben!
Es ging also zurück und ich habe mir das Gerät dann im Laden gekauft - etwas teurer, aber es funktioniert!