AKAI Professional MPK mini Plus 4-stars Reviews

Lot's of features in a small package

It does what it needs to do and it works fine. Small and portable.

One thing that frustrated me for a few minutes: if you use a laptop as power source, all midi gets routed through the usb when the laptop is on. This means you can only use it to control a (semi)modular synth through midi when the laptop is off, when it is on but midi has to be routed through your laptop's sound device, or when it's powered by a wall adapter. This is stated clearly and in bold in the manual, but you have to read it first :P

Really well thought mini keyboard

With 3 octaves it's just enough to use both hands when you are doing piano parts. It's smaller brother is on that regard pretty limited. I've also bought it with the software bundle which is jus fantastic value for the money. Everything works perfectly and if I need to complain it would be about keys. They are a bit too stiff for my taste but than again it's cheap MIDI keyboard with mini keys. Definitely recommended especially with the software bundle.