AKAI Professional MPK mini Play MK3 5-stars Reviews

A Blast

I did not buy the MPK mini Play MK3 for professional use, not saying that it has no place there. I purchased the MPK mini Play MK3 for my young son to give him the opportunity to learn and appreciate creating music. This unit does what I intended it to do, and most importantly we have quality time together and he is having a blast learning how to make music. This Akai has ample features which are not too difficult to learn, even for a 3 year old.

Great addition to rig

Bought this for 2 reasons , it followed my purchase of an RC600 looper and with it provided me with - 1) a handy keyboard to develop my low ability keyboard skills - one handed chord accompaniments - it has a usable selection of inbuilt sounds to use, - but more significantly, 2) it provided a finger drum pad to generate my own backing drum patterns on the looper. It also has a USB interface which I havent bothered using yet - the basic audio output into PA is perfectly adequate for my needs - all this for a little more than 100€. - and on batteries you can sit on the sofa to work ideas out!

Very good value for the price

I needed a keyboard with built in sounds, for DAWless setup. This thing does it at all for the price of a single PO.

- Built in sounds need some tweaking to sound right, only 4 parameters. But it is enough to allow you to get good sounds

- 127 sounds covering lot of genre's, 10 kits.

- Plastic build but cannot complaint at this price. Well built otherwise.

- 3.5 mm out.

- Modulation using joystick is good, though small and lacking fine control.

I cannot comment on the midi features, since I did not buy it for that.

Super fun little synth!

As a midi controller, it's OK.

But as a modern professional equivalent of an 80's Casio kid's keyboard, this thing is A BLAST!

Built-in speakers, arpeggiator with octaves and hold function with really professional quality instruments!

All at a very cheap price. This thing is super fun!

The only thing I miss is a way to transpose an already playing arpeggio. If it had that, this keyboard could dethrone the Arturia Keystep.

Sadly, it doesn't, so the Keystep is still king as a midi controller.

But honestly, as all in one mini synth with speakers, this is the best there is.

awesome

awesome keyboard i love it! small and portable but with a great outcome

Cool tool for beginners

As someone who never played music, it is very nice to be able to jam on it with the integrated speaker or use it with virtual instruments to learn about music making

Amazing toy, and serious tool for pro

Great solution for small room owners, mobile, compact. Internal sounds are great for this prise, and useful when you create something. Highly recommend for everybody!

A great musical device to enhance creativity & learn theory

Creating music at times can seem daunting but this little keyboard is perfect for all levels of creation.

The best part about it is the fact that it can be used without a DAW, while the speaker isn't the best, the fact that you can plug your headphones in is perfect.

I first bought the midi keyboard to practice music theory on the go and now the greatest thing about it is that I can easily advance to using it onto a DAW.

Jamming keyboard

Good quality. You can use effect processor and loop pedal whith this keyboard for live performance. Speaker just for fun.

Amazing little device

Wanted something for lessons with my 3 year old niece... Got this delivered a few days ago, amazed with quality of it... put in some batteries to try out the standalone feature first, great sounds actually... and it controls my ableton well