What is the Q1 and Q2 link on the side for?

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What is the Q1 and Q2 link on the side for?

By Tru4LifeRecords Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:19 pm
This may be a elementary question to please give me a elementary answer.. What are the 2 slide components used for on the MPC1K? They say Q2 and Q1 and they slide up and down... What is it's primary use?
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By stephen Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:30 pm
Man, there's a whole chapter on them in the manual..

Chapter 8, page 44.

One thing to note is that the changes only take effect when the pad is hit again.

By amplifya Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:40 am
he doesnt have a 1000 i dont think

you can record and change the tune attack decay filter and stuff in real time with the sliders
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By punchdrunk Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:01 am
isn't it a goddamn shame you can't use the sliders to control the velocity???!!!

i was gonna just use note repeat with my snare and then use the slider to drop the volume out lower and lower for each hit. would be such a nice workaround to the 1000 not having any delay.

oh well.

pretty much the sliders are just there to accidentally be broken.
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By stephen Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:23 am
I missed the sig - sorry bout that:

Here's what's in the manual (can be downloaded from akaipro.com)

Tune - control sample's pitch
Filter - control filter's cutoff freq
Layer - switches layers
Attack - controls attack time of Amp Env
Decay - controls decay time of Amp Env

punchdrunk

By jksuperstar Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:04 am
Try setting the same sample on all 4 layers, but each with a different volume level.

Then use the Q-Link to switch between layers (I think they can over lap some)....

don't know that it works, but thought it might be a work-around...
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By punchdrunk Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:23 am
word.

that sounds like it might work.

thanks jksuperstar.
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By my1k Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:05 am
I love my 1k but I dont get what state of mind the AKAI development team was in when they created this thing & I just want to know if any of you share the same opinion?


Cant control the volume/pan level for the selected track by using the sliders instead of the DATA wheel? why?

Cant real time pitch bend ? why ? even the simplest of CPUS can do this.

In mixer mode cant switch programs..there are some vacant/empty (F)FUNCTION buttons that could hold a prog + / prog - function! why not?


I can live without these things, and music will be produced... but I just dont get there mentality..

and I dont buy that arguement that AKAI want people to upgrade to the 200XL for more functionality.
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