Akai mpd 218 is awesome! It’s compact, lightweight, and the build quality is superb! Also, the price is right. The pads are a real joy and there are a lot of them.

People just keep on buying this garbage and calling it platinum. Good is not what this product is and if they come at me with fire and brimstone, i will shrug it off. What a disappointment.

Double-triggering is a real problem. Some of the pads trigger with the lightest tap and others you need to hit much harder resulting unequal velocities (extremely unequal) rendering this unit pretty much unusable.

The key word here, unfortunately, is mitigated. The issue persists regardless of the solutions proposed by others online. It's pretty upsetting that akai has known about this problem for as long as they have.

The software is very under-powered compared to their old school mpc hardware series. Their tutorial links are mostly broken. My advice to you is to go for the mpd studio and up.

Switching the banks on the controller does not switch them in the daw or mpc software. I am now over three hours into messing with this device and it hasn't made a sound.