# AKAI MPD18 as midi fighter

**URL:** <https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/akai-mpd18-as-midi-fighter/18961>\
**Category:** Midi Fighters\
**Created:** [January 27, 2011, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/akai-mpd18-as-midi-fighter/18961 "2011-01-27T10:31:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Woozye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Woozye](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Woozye)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/akai-mpd18-as-midi-fighter/18961/1 "2011-01-27T10:31:45Z")

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**AKAI MPD18 as midi fighter**

Hi guys, first thread here 🙂

so, I’ll be getting an Akai MPD 18 from a friend of mine pretty soon, and I was wondering, since it has the same 4x4 button grid as the Midi-Fighter, will the midi-fighter mappings work on it just the same as they would with an actual midi-fighter?

here is a link to the Akai website: [http://www.akaipro.com/mpd18](http://www.akaipro.com/mpd18)

thanks in advance,

Woozye

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**Author:** ![No\_Left\_Turn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/no_left_turn/32/13374_2.png) [@No\_Left\_Turn](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/No_Left_Turn)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/akai-mpd18-as-midi-fighter/18961/2 "2011-01-27T18:00:03Z")

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Yeah, it should work just fine. You can set up a Trigger Finger to use the MIDI Fighter mapping. It’s pretty rad. You just need to set the MPD to operate on MIDI channel 3 and, IIRC, the pads need to trigger notes C2-D#3 to match the MIDI Fighter.