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Eventually I found a thread that said this is normal behaviour when your device is already on the current firmware.

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I followed various tutorials in regards to the firmware update procedure but kept having the same issue. But my device was connected? I tried various USB Cables, USB Ports and even a different computer just encase that was the problem, no luck. Unfortunately whenever I went to вЂConnectвЂ™ the device I got the error вЂCanвЂ™t Find Device, Please Connect DeviceвЂ™. When holding вЂPROG SelectвЂ™ and plugging in the USB Cable the device doesnвЂ™t light up as it normally would and thus is in firmware update mode.

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I figured this out by trial and error, when holding вЂPROG ChangeвЂ™ and plugging in the USB Cable the device boots as normal. Wait, there is no вЂPROG ButtonвЂ™, there is a вЂPROG SelectвЂ™ Button and a вЂPROG ChangeвЂ™ Button, what do I use? The correct answer is that you use the вЂPROG SelectвЂ™ Button. As you can see below, it says вЂPress & Hold PROG Button then connect to your computer (via USB)вЂ™. I started with AKAIвЂ™s Firmware Updater Instructions but got puzzled at Step 1. Great I thought, IвЂ™ll just update the firmware and all will be good to go again. What else could I try?ДЄfter some reading online it seemed that when you update the firmware all of the MIDI Settings are returned to their defaults.

WRONG! There is no вЂReturn to DefaultвЂ™ Setting for MIDI Mappings in any of the menus in MPK Mini Mk2 Editor. So I thought hey, letвЂ™s load up the defaults, itвЂ™s 2019, surely I can do that.

IвЂ™d mapped everything so far off the scale of normal there was no easy way to get back, I just wanted to start again, essentially an undo of all the chaos I had just caused. I did this super quickly and without much thought, I soon realised that what I had sent back to my device had overwritten the default values. I loaded different вЂProgramsвЂ™ from my device, changed MIDI Mappings and sent them back to the device and tested if they worked in Ableton. I started messing about with all the MIDI Maps straight away as I figured out how it all worked and what exactly I was doing.

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My new toy had arrived, I opened the box, plugged it in to my Mac and started playing around with my MPK Mini MkII in the editor software. There is no way to get it back unless you had saved it out as a вЂ.mk2вЂ™ file previously. Please note, once you вЂSENDвЂ™ a MIDI Mapping to the device it will overwrite the exisiting MIDI Mapping on that particular вЂProgramвЂ™ on the device.

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In this way you can send MIDI Mappings between the software and your device as much as you would like. If you press the вЂSENDвЂ™ Button next to вЂProgram 1вЂ™ while your MPK Mini MkII is connected via USB, it will send the current MIDI Mappings for вЂProgram 1вЂ™ from the software to your device. If you press the вЂGETвЂ™ Button next to вЂProgram 1вЂ™ while your MPK Mini MkII is connected via USB, it will load the current MIDI Mappings for вЂProgram 1вЂ™ from your device to the software. In the software you can see these on the far left of the user interface as depicted below: These are referred to as вЂProgram 1вЂ™, вЂProgram 2вЂ™, вЂProgram 3вЂ™ and вЂProgram 4вЂ™.

Very cool.Д®ach MPK Mini MkII has four different вЂProgramsвЂ™, which are essentially four different MIDI Mappings that can be switched between while using the device. They can load it in their editor, send it their MPK Mini MkII and use the MIDI Mapping that you have programmed. You can create a Custom MIDI Mapping in the editor that works for you, save it out as вЂCustomMapping.mk2вЂ™ and send it to a friend. If you wish to learn more about using this software I recommend you read AKAIвЂ™s Help Article which gives you a solid run through of how it functions.ДЇor the purpose of this tutorial, the main thing that you need to know is the editor saves/loads files in the вЂ.mk2вЂ™ file format. This software is called вЂMPK Mini Mk2 EditorвЂ™ and is available for macOS and Windows. SoftwareДЄKAI has specifically designed software to allow the user to MIDI Map their MPK Mini MkII. But first, a quick run through of how everything works.

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Download links are at the bottom of this page. I purchased another AKAI MPK Mini MkII, now armed with the knowledge of how it works I was able to extract the default MIDI Presets, save them out and host them here for you to use. After many Google searches it seemed this was going to be close to impossible as AKAI donвЂ™t provide their stock presets anywhere online for download. When I realised I had done this, I thought itвЂ™d be great if I could return the device to its factory settings. IвЂ™d played around with MIDI before but was still treading into uncharted waters when setting this up, during the process I lost all of the default MIDI Presets. Recently I purchased an AKAI MPK Mini MkII to use as a small sized MIDI Controller for Ableton.