It could also be used to ‘reverse’ the direction that a continuios pedal, or even a pot or fader works. This transformer isn’t limited to ‘on/off’ controllers. 65 gets flipped to 63.Ī value of 2 would be flipped to 126, where 126 would get flipped to 2, and so forth… With this ‘mirror’ filter, a value of 0 gets flipped to 127, and vice verse.Ī value of 63 would be flipped to 65. In the transformer, use ‘mirror’ value 2, and set the transform value to 64 (the half way point between 0 and 127). Simply ‘invert’ the CC64 event with a transform filter. I have such a pedal, and my AKAI MPK2 doesn’t have a firmware setting to invert it. In the case of owning a pedal that has the ‘wrong polarity’. After that I just toggle the global on as I add more tracks and CuBase flips the pedal messages for me in real time. I do have a nice Yamaha continuous controller pedal here that needs to go in port 3…and more than one of these ‘backwards Yamaha stomp pedals’…so, I personally get around this by setting up a global transformer in CuBase to ‘mirror’ or ‘invert’ the incoming messages as needed. If you’re not running a continuous controller pedal, you could use port 3 which does allow you to reverse polarity from the MPK2 settings. Sadly the MPK2 series doesn’t allow us to reverse the polarity of pedals plugged into the 1 and 2 pedal ports. I have an old Yamaha pedal that is wired backwards from what the MPK2 expects, and it’s my favorite pedal! I know this is an issue because if I pull up a MIDI monitor insert from the CuBase track inspector, I can see that my pedal sends 127 when I take my foot off, and 0 when I put it down. Make sure there is no filter for CC 64 events.

Here’s a thread discussing how I decided to set up my MPK2 (along with example maps).ĭouble check your MIDI filters in the preferences/MIDI section.

Make sure your generic remote map is NOT stealing CC64 and trying to do something DAW side with it. Note: The CuBase xml that Akai provides as a tutorial on their website has CC64 muting/unmuting daw tracks across the mixing desk editor! Not good! It’ll be up to the listening instrument to respond (or not) to the CC64 message. CC64, 127 for pedal down/on, and CC64, 0, for pedal up/off.įor the most part CuBase itself should ignore CC64, and just happily pass (or record it to the track if recording) it on to whatever VSTi or external MIDI device you’ve an armed track set for.

Akai mpk mini sustain pedal inverted