ARCADE BUTTONS ON AN Akai LPD8
Can you put arcade buttons on an Akai LPD8?
Can’t see why not. You’d need a new faceplate, though…
Great idea! But you need to find a new housing for it! I’d Love to see that mod of the lpd8!
It would be more like building a new controller using the LPD8 guts than putting arcade buttons on the LPD8, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
There are some thinner arcade buttons that should fit a lpd8 somewhere in the forums, can’t remember right now in what thread… But you can always search it. 
But I can’t say anything about the button’s quality 
Out of curiosity why would you want to replace velocity sensitive pads with arcade buttons? Seems like a downgrade if anything.
Why on earth would you want to do that? The pads are fantastic. Just build a 8 button midi fighter knockoff from scratch…
The pads are great. I perfer these rather than arcade buttons.