AKAI Professional Akai Pro MPK mini mk. IIThe MPK mini mk. Spi Flashrom Programmer. II is an ultra compact controller designed for the travelling musician and desktop producer. In this guide and video we cover setup with the MPK mini mk. II with the included MPC Essentials software and the AIR Hybrid plugin. We walk through downloading, installing, and authorizing the software and how to quickly get up and running and making music. Video Walkthroughback to topDriver Installation. The MPK Mini MKII is a class compliant MIDI device. A class compliant device is one that doesnt require extra drivers to connect your Windows or Macintosh computer. Class compliant devices use drivers which are built into the host i. Begin by connecting the MPK Mini MKII to a free USB port on your computer. We recommend going into the back of your computer, as this is closest to the power supply. This will provide the most power necessary to the controller for optimum performance. After connecting the controller to your computer, Windows will install the driver necessary for the MPK Mini MKII to communicate with your computer. Registration. Launch your web browser, and go to www. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and underneath My Account, select login or create to login to or create your account. After your account has been accessed, you will be presented with a page that says My Order History and My Product Registrations. Your registered products and related software downloads will be listed below. We will want to select Register a product now to register. Next, you will be presented with a screen to enter your information and register your controller. Select MPK mini mkii from the drop down menu. Make sure you enter the serial number exactly as it appears on the bottom of your controller. Important Neglecting the 2. A will result in a rejected serial number. There is no software version for this controller, so this field can be left blank. Include your purchase date and place of purchase, then select Register Product to complete the registration. Downloading, Installing and Unlocking MPC Essentials. After successfully registering the controller, you will be presented with the serial numbers and download links for MPC Essentials, Hybrid 3, and Wobble. To download, install and unlock MPC Essentials Select MPC Essentials 1. PC or MPC Essentials 1. Mac depending on your operating system. This will downlaod as a file called Update MPC Essentials 1. After the download is complete, we will need to extract the files before installation. To do this, make sure you have an unzipping program installed on your computer and right click in the white space of the folder in which the download is stored. After doing this, select Extract All. Make sure you remember this location so we can retrieve it afterwards. After the files are extracted, selec the file named Update MPC Essentials to run the setup. The software may notify you that a previous version of MPC has not been installed. Just click OK to continue and the installer will install the full version of MPC Essentials. Follow all of the prompts to proceed with the installation. Important While some MPC Essentials products do require drivers, this one will not. Please ignore any prompts to install drivers. After the installation is completed, you will be prompted to unlock your software. Select Unlock Now to continue. To unlock the software, make sure youre entering the serial number for MPC Essentials found within your Akai Professional account. This will be a 1. You will want to make sure youre entering this number exactly as it appears in your account. To make the process easier, we recommend copypasting the code from your account into the software. Fill in the rest of the information and select Unlock Now. After this, you will see a box saying youve successfully unlocked your MPC Congratulations, you have successfully installed the latest version of MPC Essentialsback to topInstalling Hybrid 3 and Wobble. Pro Tools Rescan Plugins Mac' title='Pro Tools Rescan Plugins Mac' />ArtemisPS3 An Open Source Playstation 3 Hacking System created under the Project Artemis initiative http Changes to ArtemisPS3 r5 by. I cant log into my uhe account. What should I do now The most common reason for this is that you havent created an account at uhe yetReturn to your Akai Professional account, and select AIR Hybrid 3 Virtual Instrument PC to download Hybrid. Repeat with the download link for Wobble to download Wobble. After the download is complete, we will need to extract the files before installation. Eagle Dongle Using. To do this, right click in the white space of the folder in which the download is stored. After doing this, select Extract All. Make sure you remember this location so we can retrieve it afterwards. After the files are extracted, select Install Hybrid to run the setup. Follow all of the prompts to proceed with the installation. For Windows users, pay attention to the location where the 3. Hybrid and Wobble are being installed. You will need to know this later on in order to scan the plugins into MPC Essentials. SoundCodeLtRtT-large.jpg' alt='Pro Tools Rescan Plugins Mac' title='Pro Tools Rescan Plugins Mac' />By default, these will install to Hybrid 3. Program Filesx. 86 Steinberg vstplugins. Program Files Steinberg vstplugins. Wobble. 32 bit and 6. Program Files x. VSTPlugins. It is common practice to put all of your plugins into a single folder in order to keep track of your plugin library, so you may want to consider changing the install location of one or both of the plugins to a single location. Note It is ok to install both 3. 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Lok before, click on Create New Account in the Sign In window and follow the prompts to create an account. Please note We recommend using an i. Lok account. Signing in is not always necessary to utilize an i. Lok license, but having and using an account to keep track of your licenses is free and provides additional features and options for managing and moving your licenses when necesary. You can see our Managing Authorization Codes and Licenses guide for more information. Once you are logged in, click on Licenses at the top of the window and choose Redeem Activation Code. A window will appear with space for you to enter an authorization code. Navigate to your Akai Pro account page, highlight and copy the Authorization Code for Hybrid. Paste this code into the first box on the left and the code will fill out the remaining fields. When youre ready, click Next. You will be prompted to choose a location for your license. You are free to choose an i. Lok dongle if you have one, but for most users, just choose your computer this will be the option with the computer icon on the left and click Activate. You will be asked to confirm this one more time. Click OK.  Finally, i. Lok will notify you when the activation is complete This process steps 3 8 can be repeated for any other plugins that utilize an i. Lok license, including Wobble. Scanning Hybrid and Wobble into MPC Essentials. Open MPC Essentials and navigate to the Preferences menu. MAC Select MPC Preferences. PC Select EDIT Preferences. Choose the Plugins tab. FAQ Frequently Asked Questions. Yes, but this involves a bit of work on your part. You will need to create a link the plug in can follow when looking for its presets. Carefully follow the instructions below, substituting the required paths and file names. If you mess up, you might have to reinstall the plugin. In this example, we will walk you through the process, starting from a fresh and standard Tyrell. N6 installation. We will show you how to move all the presets to the root of an external drive, leaving the original folder intact but empty. Then we will put a link into that empty folder and refresh Tyrells browser. Windows. 1 Start your host software and open an instance of Tyrell. N6. Click on the Presets button, right click on the Local folder and select Reveal in Explorer. A window will open containing the Tyrell. N6 preset folder. Copy the Tyrell. N6 folder containing all presets to wherever you want it to be in our example, drive D. Go into the original Tyrell. N6 folder and delete everything in there, i. Right click on the new Tyrell. N6 folder in drive D and create a shortcut. Rename that shortcut to something meaningful like TN6 sounds and move it into the old and empty Tyrell. N6 folder on your C drive. In Tyrells browser, right click on the Local node in the directory tree and select refresh. The individual presets should now disappear. Instead, you will find a folder within the Local node called TN6 sounds. Open it you should see all the presets in there now. Mac OSXNote This is a more complicated process than under Windows, as regular aliases wont work. Start your host software and open an instance of Tyrell. N6. Click on the Presets button, right click on the Local folder and select Reveal in Finder. A window will open containing the Tyrell. N6 preset folder. Copy the Tyrell. N6 folder containing all presets to wherever you want it to be for example, an external hard disk and rename it e. TN6 sounds. 3 Go into the original Tyrell. N6 folder and delete everything in there, i. You will now have to create a so called symlink instead of a regular alias. They behave differently, though they look the same in Finder. Start the Terminal application its in ApplicationsUtilities. Carefully enter the following. Return. This changes the current directory to the root of your hard disk. Next. ln s   dont press Return yet. Note that this uses a lowercase L and not an uppercase i. First, drag and drop the TN6 sounds folder into the Terminal window then press Return. The ln s command creates a symlink called TN6 sounds in the current directory, i. To open that directory in Finder, enter the following including the space and the dot followed by Return. You should now see your newly created TN6 sounds symlink there. Move that symlink into the empty old Tyrell. N6 folder in the other window. You can quit the Terminal now, if you like. In Tyrells browser, right click on the Local node in the directory tree and select refresh. The individual presets should now disappear. Instead, you will find a folder within the Local node called TN6 sounds. Open it you should see all the presets in there now.