Hi all,
I have an Akai MPK49 midi controller keyboard, and I was wondering if anyone else has one and could offer me some practical advice about how to set it up with Sonar X3 please?
The midi messages from the keys, mod wheel etc. work fine, but I'm having trouble setting up the control surface aspects. The built-in Akai presets for Sonar don't appear to do anything, so maybe they're for a pre-X1 version perhaps? Who knows...
Dare I ask if anyone even has Akai and/or Sonar settings files for the MPK49 that they'd be willing to share...?
Any advice most gratefully received!
Cheers,
Henry

http://forum.cakewalk.com...ai-MPK49-m3038483.aspx

Thanks very much for that, but I saw it a couple of weeks back and couldn't make it work. I wasn't entirely clear on steps 1 and 2. Could you please give me any more explanation? It would be fantastic if you could post some screenshots of your setup in Vyzex and Sonar...
Thanks again for your help!

I have an Akai MPK49 and tried for a number of years to make it work correctly with Sonars - from X1 to X3 IIRC.
The Vyvex software is lumpy to say the least, but in the end I solved the issue - I  purchased a Novation Impulse 61 which worked perfectly out of the box - also has automap software included.
I actually really liked the Akai keyboard but it was a nightmare software wise. 
Sorry
Nigel
 

I've never had to use the Vyzex software with past DAW's like FL Studio and Studio One. In Sonar the MPK49 transport buttons don't work out of the box like the controller has in other DAW's. It took me a couple of days to even get the transport working because I had to run a command in the CMD just to set the device up under ACT or Cakewalk Generic Suface. The Akai controller is perfect, Sonar is the issue software-wise.

Akai stuff works with sonar and then will suddenly just stop.  very frustrating. Akai has totally useless support.

Hello henD,
 
I am using and Akai MPD 26 (hopefully that's about the same from a transport standpoint).  And The transport is working fine without any "special" cmd. So I used the Generic Akai MPK template and used the midi learn feature to program the transport. The other setting I can tell you that I have is on the MPD itself where all of transport keys are  setup to user "MMC" (Press transport key,chooes edit, push button to select and turn dial to MMC).  IHTH

As you could see in my thread: if you want integration with SONAR for some CS, just integrate it yourself.
 
I agree that AutoMap software works out of the box with SONAR. But not even close to the lever you can wish and it transpose itself into AutoBug periodically...
 
 

Guys,
Thanks so much for your replies. I totally agree with what you say about Akai flakiness with Sonar. I've had a MPK Mini for a few years, and that caused me quite a bit of grief. It has far fewer controls though, all of which can just be midi-learned to synths, so no big deal to map at least. I've also had the old work one day and not the next issue with both controllers, and often have to restart Sonar to get them to work.
Maybe I was crazy to get another Akai... They say in the sales blurb that it comes with Sonar presets, so I guess I thought things would be simpler this time.
Anyway, it sounds like manual mapping is the only option. I'll give it a go.
Thanks again.

I can't get my MPD26 to work at all with my arturia software in standalone mode.  works via sonar.