AKAI Professional MPD 218 5-stars Reviews

Nice

The AKAI Professional MPD 218 is a fantastic MIDI pad controller that delivers exceptional performance and versatility. Its responsive pads provide a dynamic playing experience, perfect for beatmaking, finger drumming, and triggering samples. The build quality is excellent, ensuring durability for both studio and live performances. With its intuitive layout and seamless integration with popular music production software, such as Ableton Live, it's an essential tool for any music producer or performer. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned musician, the MPD 218 offers a seamless and enjoyable creative workflow. Highly recommended!

Great set of drumpads

Reasonably priced for the quality of the build. The drumpads are one of the best being the signature akai pads.

Smoothness

Really Good when it comes to sampling!

Good for the price. Pads are a bit too sensitive, but its ok after I got used to it.

Does the job

Good controller. Does what it says. Good feeling pads.

Great value but not quite perfect

Great build quality, heavy and all controls feel good. Major problem is the pad's sensitivity where it doesn't pick up light inputs sometimes. However this is the case with every pad setup I've used (haven't used expensive ones) and won't be a problem once you get used to the controller.

In conclusion I'd recommend this highly, the light up pads make it very satisfying. Definitely great value for money.

Awesome

This device made drums on my demos much cooler, complex and humane. Recommended!

A Must !

this controller is perfect for finger drumming and recording midi drum, very responsive, well constructed and stable on desk

Excactly what I need

Well, firstly as this price point, I cannot complaint. Yes the light isn't RGB, and the velocity is not the best ever. But this pads just perfect for my needs. Especially I like that all the buttons and rotary knob is on the left side (not on the right as most pads I knew did).

So as my personal favorite, it helps a lot since I more enjoy to tweek anything on the left and focusing my pads playing on the right side. Simple straight forward, nice feel of touch and not as cheap as it may look and priced (trust me on this), minimalist features which is not bad at all for me cause I use this tools only for drumming and synth addition, not as my main controller.

One thing that a bit confusing is the installement of bitwig and that stuff. But not really bothered me, so I will still give 5 star recommendation for other user that needs excact tools like me.

Beautiful Device - Versatile

This was a beautiful drum pad! Nice sensitivity and extremely versatile. The three banks were more than enough to suit my basic needs. I've actually sold my one on now as I upgraded my gear, but I was sad to see this piece of kit go! Nice and sturdy too.

So fine quality

A really good product that matches the description and not that expensive. First I saw this sound board in PewDiePie's videos and I like it so much that i bought it. I'm so satisfied with it's quality and with the delivery. I recomend it for begginers (like me) in sound efects.

Peace out!

Nice pads

I wish they could implement q-link knobs with MPC Software. The pads are high quality.

Excellent pads

Very easy to use with excellent pads. I also love the rotary knobs who are without bottom and top fixed points and it is great for Ableton Live automation settings recall where you can use the knobs without finding the sweet spot again, though I would love to see 8 knobs instead of 6 because of Live Macros. And again, the pads are excellent (coming from an MPC fan).