MPC5000 reviews, bug reports and fellow user support on the most recent standalone, hardware MPC from Akai
By manji Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:39 am
Ok, so this is a totally new deal to me, so I dont even know where to start and I couldnt find it in the manual.

What im looking to do is at the begining of a pattern have an external synth go to all the settings that I want (not the defaults). As it is right now, everytime i load up a sequence on my mpc, i then have to go to each of my synths and load up all my saved patches. Im trying to avoid this as it takes forever and surely there is a way to do this automatically. From what I understand, this is what a midi dump does, right?

So my question is, how in gods green earth do I do this? I know how to send midi dumps on my synths, I just dont know how to record them into the mpc. Do they need their own channel? Do ijust record them in the step edit screen? I have no clue. Any help?