Going to be completely honest with you... this is my first step into using digital instruments and believed a midi controller would be easier for me to use than an actual computer keyboard...
Is the setting Map MIDI to NES channels set? If so I would take a note of which channels these are, and then go into the miniak editor, and make presets for each midi channel:
14 PAD MIDI CHANNEL – Click this field to select the number of the MIDI channel which the pads will use to transmit MIDI
messages while using this preset.
15. KEY + KNOBS MIDI CHANNEL – Click this field to select the number of the MIDI channel which the keyboard and
knobs will use to transmit MIDI messages while using this preset.
So Preset 1 Could be
Nes Channel 1 (Pulse 1) on Midi channel 0 (which is the same as channel 1 on devices that do not have zero and the Pads are set to maybe channel 4 for DPCM?
Then preset 2 could be pulse 2, preset 3 could be the triangle channel, and preset 4 could be the noise channel. Each preset could have the pads be the same, so you can always jam on some drum samples.
Just an idea.