Akai MPC500 DJ Equipment User Manual


 
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QUICKSTART MANUAL (ENGLISH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Basic Information..................................................................................................................................2
Cursor, Cursor buttons................................................................................................................................................................2
Field, DATA wheel.....................................................................................................................................................................2
[SEQUENCE] button..................................................................................................................................................................2
[TRACK] button.........................................................................................................................................................................2
[PARAMS] button ......................................................................................................................................................................2
MODE button..............................................................................................................................................................................2
Tutorial of the MPC500 .........................................................................................................................2
Playing Back a Demo Song..................................................................................................................3
Playing a Preset Program.....................................................................................................................3
Recording a Performance with the Pads............................................................................................4
Pla ing Back Several Sequences in a Series.....................................................................................4 y
Selecting the sequences in real time...........................................................................................................................................4
Playing back the sequences in the selected order.......................................................................................................................5
Recording a Sound ...............................................................................................................................5
Preparing the recording...............................................................................................................................................................5
Starting the recording..................................................................................................................................................................6
Assigning the recorded sound to the pad....................................................................................................................................6
Loop Playback of the Phrase Sample.................................................................................................7
Adjusting the start/end points of the sample ..............................................................................................................................7
Recording to a sequence.............................................................................................................................................................7
Setting the same number of the bars for the sample and the sequence......................................................................................8
Saving the Data .....................................................................................................................................9
Turning Off the Autoload Function .....................................................................................................9
Other Useful Functions ........................................................................................................................9
Q-Link slider...............................................................................................................................................................................9