It weighs just 1.5 kgs and has a pretty similar footprint to my 15” MacBook Pro, making it portable without losing some important features. The Minilab Mk II is a two-octave mini keyboard that has borrowed its styling from its cousin the Keystep and it looks fresh and usable. Indeed, all you need to add to this package is a laptop and you can be making music on the move before you can say bleep. Seemingly packed with everything you need to make and control your sounds, the Minilab Mk II updates the original version with a slightly different layout and style along with well thought out integration with some of the included software. This is where you may need to spend time creating your own custom templates so you can do what you need but that will be hard if you do not understand how MIDI works.Arturia’s continuing advance into the hardware market knows no bounds and their new, portable controller definitely punches above its weight. The issues you could be having could be that each preset may not be on a different channel or the controls within each preset are not a different CC value etc so even switching presets your controls remain the same channel/CC so will not be unique to that preset. You need to understand how MIDI channels, CC, Note data all works before you can really start to map things to different templates.

MIDI is a very simple and logical protocol so if it does not appear that way to you, then you will struggle with how you are wanting things to work.

I can't help with the MINI Lab because I don't own one but I would suggest you really need to start at the very bottom and discover how MIDI itself works.

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