HELP!! REASON + MPC 4000 connection problems

[kg84]

My boy just copped the mpc 4000 and we are having trouble hooking it up to my computer, more specifically reason, via USB. I have hooked up my midi controller to reason before, so I know that process. With his MPC, I cant get reason to recognize that it is connected. In the manual it says that the mpc can be hooked up through the usb. What are we missing here?

do we need to buy a midi port?

 

[73*]

"A USB slave port allows direct connection to a PC or Apple Mac for use with the free akSys software.
As well as editing, this graphically rich remote control software allows you to transfer files between the MPC and your computer for efficient organization of sound library, etc., and for speedy integration with your favorite computer music software. Samples can be edited as standard Wav files and sequences as standard Midi files."

I pulled that off the 4000's main page @ akaipro.com

What I figure is you'll need to hook it up with actual midi cables...Unless the akaisys software allows you to use the USB as virtual MIDI ports (but I doubt it).​