Other Controls

SOFTWARE CONTROLS

KEY

ACTION

1 STOP

Stops the selected deck at the previously used CUE point. When paused, cycles through all available CUEs

2 PLAY

Play/pauses the selected Deck

3 REC

Starts/stops the recording of your mix

* HARDWARE CONTROLS

KEY

ACTION

H1 NAV

Use the Up/Down/Left/Right Navigation buttons to navigate through the Parameters and Pages when a Program, or a Sequence is edited

H2 PRESET

Use this button to select the Preset mode. When selected, the LCD screen displays the properties of the selected Program when the NAV buttons are used

H3 EDIT

Use this button to select the Edit mode. When selected, the LCD screen displays the properties of the selected Program when the NAV buttons are used

H4 GLOBAL

Use this button to select the Global Edit mode. When selected, the LCD screen displays the properties of the selected Program when the NAV buttons are used

H5 NOTE REPEAT

Press and hold this button while striking a pad to cause the pad to re-trigger at a rate based on the current tempo and Time Division settings

H6 TAP TEMPO

Press this button in time with the desired tempo to enter a new tempo (in BPM). This will affect the speed of the Note Repeat feature.
Note: This button is disabled by default since the external MIDI clock source is enabled. If you wish to disable external Midi Clock from VirtualDJ, right-click on the AKAI MPD232 entry in VirtualDJ Settings->Controllers tab.

H7 16 LEVEL

Press this button to activate/deactivate 16 Level mode. When activated, the last pad that was hit will be temporarily copied to all 16 pads. The pads will now output the same note number as the initial pad but at fixed velocity values that increase as the pad numbers increase (e.g., Pad 1 is the minimum, Pad 16 is the maximum), regardless of how hard you hit them
Note : Makes sense to use this mode in Sampler mode only

H8 FULL LEVEL

When enabled,
the 16 velocity PADS will send full velocity speed, regardless the pushing strength

T TIME DIV

When enabled, select a Time division using the CONTROL buttons B1-B8, which affects the Pads Repeat mode

* SEQUENCER

S SEQ STEPS

Each button represent a step in a sequence. Steps can be set from Edit mode. When a button is enabled, the selected track/sample will be triggered

B SEQ BANK

Select Steps Bank 1-16 or 17-32

S1 SEQ ON/OFF

Start/stop playing the sequence

S2 SEQ EDIT

Enter Sequence editing mode. Select Tracks 1 to 16. Not advised to use Tracks further to 16 (of other Banks), as those will trigger other VirtualDJ actions instead of Samples. Use the navigation buttons to manually edit their velocity (volume)

S3 SEQ REC

Start/stop sequence recording. When enabled, use Pads 1 to 16 in Sampler mode to trigger VirtualDJ Samples and manually create a sequence.

Read further about Sequencer in the AKAI MPD232 Manual http://www.akaipro.com/product/mpd232#downloads

* Note : All the above Hardware buttons do not send any MIDI message, so cannot be assigned to any VirtualDJ action.