Akai LPD8 -buttons programmable???

[World Wide]

Does anyone know if the buttons on the LPD8 are programmable?

I want to be able to program it to the Tap Tempo in Ableton Live... anyone know if this is possible??

[franknitty69]

if tap tempo in ableon is midi mappable, then yes. most likely there is a 'learn' function in ableton and you press the button or turn the knob on the lpd8.

[F.S]

Tap tempo in Ableton?

[World Wide]

You dont know about the tap tempo in ableton?

Yeah... its midi mappable. Thanks.

[F.S]

Well I've only got the trial of ableton. I'm still coming to terms with it's workflow etc.

How do you do tap tempo?

[World Wide]

Well I've only got the trial of ableton. I'm still coming to terms with it's workflow etc.

How do you do tap tempo?

There is a tap tempo button at the top on the left. It is midi programmable, as I said, or u can click it with ur mouse.



TAP

[LmnLm3]

hit ctrl+m or cmd+m (pc or mac) and they all go blue. Click the TAP button, then hit whichever pad (on whichever bank) you want.

I wonder if this can be done with Prog Change, though... works for transport....

[World Wide]

^^^ Yeah I know you can do that... or even assign it to a key on a keyboard.

But what Im really wondering is if you can assign it to one of the "extra" buttons and not the pads, so I can have a permanent tap tempo button instead of having to assign it to a pad and then delete that assignment when im done every single time.

[LmnLm3]

Well if you can map it to a program change, then you hit PROG CHANGE (under PAD BANK 2) and then one of your pads is always a tap, unless you're using all your PCs for something.... (can PC map to something like TAP?)

THAT would be nice.

Wonder when decent maps will come out for these (LPD/MPK mini) Reason 5 Kong can't even access all 16 pads, only the first row and the second half of the last row... bizarre...

AFAIK the buttons like (bank 1/2, cc, prog change, arp controls, etc) are hard wired through the onboard controller and are not mappable (maybe with some hacking, but it seems they are meant to be left alone)