ADVANCED SETUP

AKAI LPD8 EDITOR

Akai offers an Editor to manually edit, save and load presets for the Pads and Faders. You can download from https://www.akaipro.com/lpd8 (select the DOWNLOADS tab)

In order VirtualDJ factory mapping to operate properly, the Pads and Faders need to have certain Midi Note/CC values in Program 1, as shown in the following image

Manual Programming

Open AKAI Professional LPD8 Editor
Edit the values for the 8 Pads and faders for Program 1, as shown in the image above.
Under Program 1, click on the SEND button
You can manually program Programs 2 to 4, the same way, but keep in mind that these will not be offered as VirtualDJ keys, so do this if you intend to use the LPD8 in other applications.
You can save your programming from File->Save Program

Load VDJ Programming

Download the VDJ preset file from https://www.virtualdj.com/documents/LP8Program_VDJv8.lpd8
Open AKAI Professional LPD8 Editor
From top menu choose File->Open Program and navigate to the path you saved the previous file.
Under Program 1, click on the SEND button.

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Hardware Integration Department 2021 - ATOMIX PRODUCTIONS

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