Hardware Manuals
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.
