By Lampdog
Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:16 pm
Jean Claude Trans Am wrote:Go to step edit and find the kick you want to change and change the velocity.
There is your answer.
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Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................... 1
Features .............................................................................................................. 2
Panel Descriptions ............................................................................................... 4
Front Panel .............................................................................................. 4
Rear Panel .............................................................................................. 7
Handling Floppy Disks ......................................................................................... 8
The Disk Drive ......................................................................................... 8
Taking care of your Disks ........................................................................ 8
CD-ROM Care ......................................................................................... 9
Chapter 2: The Basics ............................................................................................... 10
Hooking Up Your System .................................................................................. 11
The Terms Used in MPC2000XL ....................................................................... 12
Sequence .................................................................................. 12
Track ......................................................................................... 12
Song .......................................................................................... 12
Sound ........................................................................................ 13
Drum Pads ................................................................................ 13
Note Number ............................................................................. 13
Program .................................................................................... 13
Operating the Front Panel and Screen .............................................................. 14
The Cursor, Cursor Keys, Data Fields ...................................... 15
The Numeric Keypad and DATA Wheel.................................... 15
The Function Keys .................................................................... 15
Basic Functions ................................................................................................. 16
Loading and Playing Programs ............................................................. 16
Playing the Drum Pads, the PAD BANK, & FULL LEVEL Keys ............ 18
Selecting Programs ............................................................................... 19
The NOTE VARIATION Slider, ASSIGN and AFTER keys ................... 19
The ASSIGN Key ...................................................................... 20
The AFTER key......................................................................... 21
The 16 LEVELS key .............................................................................. 22
Chapter 3: Recording Sequences............................................................................. 24
How Sequences are Organized ......................................................................... 24
Bar.Beat.Tick ............................................................................. 25
Examples of Sequence Recordings .................................................................. 26
Example 1: Recording a Drum Pad Performance ..................... 26
Example 2: Recording a Loop ................................................... 28
Example 3: Recording With External MIDI Equipment .............. 30
The MAIN SCREEN .......................................................................................... 32
Selecting a Sequence ........................................................................... 32
Renaming a Sequence.............................................................. 32
Name Window ........................................................................... 33
Deleting a Sequence ................................................................. 33
Copying a Sequence ................................................................. 34
Next sequence function ............................................................. 34
Second Sequence Feature ....................................................... 36
Setting the Tempo ................................................................................. 37
Tempo Change Window............................................................ 37
Entering and Modifying a Tempo Change................................. 38
Selecting a Tempo Source .................................................................... 39
Setting the Time Correct (Quantization) ................................................ 40
Setting the Beat ..................................................................................... 41
Setting the Number of Bars ................................................................... 42
Looping a Sequence ............................................................................. 44
Setting the Recording Count In/Metronome .......................................... 45
Selecting a Track ................................................................................... 47
Renaming a Track ..................................................................... 47
Deleting a Track ........................................................................ 48
Copying a Track ........................................................................ 48
Turning the Track ON or OFF ............................................................... 49
Deleting All the Tracks that You Have Turned Off ................................ 50
Setting the Track Type .......................................................................... 50
Settings for MIDI Reception .................................................................. 51
MIDI Filter Function ............................................................................... 52
Setting the Track’s MIDI Channel .......................................................... 52
Settings for MIDI Output ........................................................................ 53
Multiple Track Recording ....................................................................... 54
Editing the Velocity ................................................................................ 55
Setting the Program Change Transfer .................................................. 56
Locating with the DATA Wheel .............................................................. 56
Units Used to Locate a Point ..................................................... 56
The Main Screen Function Keys ........................................................... 57
The Play/Record Keys and the Locate Keys ..................................................... 58
The AUTO PUNCH IN/OUT Function ................................................................ 60
Chapter 4: Editing Sequences .................................................................................. 61
Overview ............................................................................................................ 62
Erasing Data with the ERASE Key .................................................................... 62
Erasing a Note in Real Time ..................................................... 62
Using the ERASE Window to Erase Data ................................. 62
Step Editing ....................................................................................................... 64
Step Editing Screen ............................................................................... 64
Timing Correct in Step Edit ....................................................... 65
The Event Display ..................................................................... 65
Operating the List Display ......................................................... 66
Selecting and Editing Multiple Events ....................................... 66
Copying an Event ...................................................................... 67
Deleting an Event ...................................................................... 67
Pasting an Event ....................................................................... 67
Inserting an Event ..................................................................... 68
Step Recording ...................................................................................... 68
The Editing Screen ............................................................................................ 69
Copying an Event ...................................................................... 69
Editing the Duration of a Note ................................................... 70
Editing the Velocity of a Note .................................................... 70
Transposing a Note ................................................................... 71
Copying by Bar.......................................................................... 72
Rearranging the tracks .............................................................. 73
Sequence Preferences.............................................................. 74
Transposing a Track ................................................................. 74
Chapter 5: Song Mode ............................................................................................... 76
Overview ............................................................................................................ 76
Song Mode ........................................................................................................ 78
Creating a Song .................................................................................... 78
Renaming a Song.................................................................................. 79
Selecting a Song ................................................................................... 78
Deleting a Song ..................................................................................... 80
Copying a Song ..................................................................................... 81
Setting the Tempo ................................................................................. 82
Setting the Loop .................................................................................... 83
Selecting a Step and Changing a Sequence ......................................... 84
Repeating a Sequence .......................................................................... 84
Deleting a Step ...................................................................................... 85
Inserting a Step ..................................................................................... 85
Moving to a Specific Point in a Song (Locate) ....................................... 86
Converting a Song to a Sequence ........................................................ 87
Chapter 6: Creating and Editing Sounds ................................................................. 88
Sampling a New Sound ..................................................................................... 89
Editing a Sound ................................................................................................. 93
Selecting a Sound ................................................................................. 93
Renaming or Displaying the Specification of the Sound ........... 93
Deleting a Sound ....................................................................... 94
Copying a Sound ....................................................................... 94
Converting a Sound ............................................................................... 95
Converting Stereo to Mono ....................................................... 95
Converting Mono to Stereo ....................................................... 96
Re-sampling .............................................................................. 97
TRIM Mode............................................................................................ 98
Fine Adjustment of the Start Point ............................................ 99
Fine Adjustment of the End Point ............................................ 100
LOOP Mode ........................................................................................ 101
Fine Adjustment of the Loop Points ........................................ 102
ZONE Mode ........................................................................................ 103
Fine Adjustment of the Start Point of a Zone .......................... 103
Fine Adjustment of the End Point of a Zone ........................... 104
EDIT Mode .......................................................................................... 104
BPM Match .......................................................................................... 107
Setting the Sound Parameters ............................................................ 109
Beat Loop Function ................................................................. 109
Chapter 7: Creating and Editing Programs ........................................................... 110
What Are Programs? ....................................................................................... 111
Creating a program ............................................................................. 112
Selecting a Program and Assigning a Sound .................................................. 113
Selecting Programs ............................................................................. 113
Renaming Programs ............................................................... 114
Deleting a Program ................................................................. 114
Creating New Programs .......................................................... 115
Copying Programs .................................................................. 115
Assigning Notes to the Drum Pads ..................................................... 116
Assigning Sounds to Notes ................................................................. 117
Auto Chromatic Assignement .............................................................. 117
The Pad Assign Mode and Initialize .................................................... 118
Deleting Unused Sounds from the Memory ........................................ 118
The Program Sound Generation Mode ............................................... 119
Editing Note Parameters ................................................................................. 121
Selecting Programs ............................................................................. 121
Selecting Notes ................................................................................... 121
Copying the Note Parameter................................................... 122
Setting the Envelope ........................................................................... 122
Setting the Filter .................................................................................. 124
Setting the Pitch .................................................................................. 125
Setting the Voice Overlap .................................................................... 126
The MIDI Settings of the Sampler ....................................................... 127
Chapter 8: Mixer Functions ..................................................................................... 128
Stereo Output Mixer ........................................................................................ 129
Setting the Volume .............................................................................. 129
Setting the Left/Right Pan ................................................................... 130
Linking the Volume/Pan Levels ........................................................... 130
Setting the Individual Outputs and Effect Send (Option) ................................. 131
Assigning the Sounds to Individual Outputs ........................................ 131
Setting the Output Level ...................................................................... 132
Linking the Individual Outputs/Output Levels ...................................... 132
Sending Effects ............................................................................................... 133
Setting the Effect Send Level .............................................................. 133
Setting the Volume or Pan for Each Note ........................................................ 134
Setting Up the Mixer ........................................................................................ 135
Chapter 9: Effects (optional) ................................................................................... 137
Editing Effects .................................................................................................. 138
Turning Each Effect On or Off ......................................................................... 138
Multi-effects ..................................................................................................... 139
Setting the Effect Routing ................................................................................ 139
Reverb Effects ................................................................................................. 141
Editing Each Effect .......................................................................................... 143
Chapter 10: Disk Operation ..................................................................................... 151
Overview .......................................................................................................... 152
The Device: Field ................................................................................ 152
The Device Icons ................................................................................. 152
Before Proceeding to Use a Floppy Disk ............................................ 153
Formatting a Disk ............................................................................................ 154
Formatting a Floppy Disk .................................................................... 154
Formatting a SCSI Drive ..................................................................... 155
Saving the Data ............................................................................................... 156
Saving Across Multiple Floppy Disks .................................................. 159
Saving to Folders on a SCSI Device ............................................................... 160
Creating a New Folder ........................................................................ 160
Making Folders Within Folders ............................................................ 161
Selecting Folders/Files ........................................................................ 162
Deleting Folders .................................................................................. 163
Renaming Folders ............................................................................... 163
Loading Files ................................................................................................... 164
Deleting a File from the Disk ........................................................................... 168
Loading an Updated Operating System .......................................................... 169
Loading Files Created on the AKAI MPC60/60II ............................................. 170
Chapter 11: Flash ROM............................................................................................ 172
Formatting the Flash ROM .............................................................................. 173
Saving to Flash ROM ...................................................................................... 174
Loading From Flash ROM ............................................................................... 174
Deleting Data from Flash ROM ....................................................................... 175
Flash ROM Fragmentation .............................................................................. 175
Editing a Sound Within Flash ROM ................................................................. 176
Chapter 12: MIDI/SYNC Mode, OTHER Mode ........................................................ 177
MIDI/SYNC Mode ............................................................................................ 178
Synchronizing the MPC2000XL with Other Sequencers ..................... 178
Synchronizing Another Sequencer or MTR to the MPC2000XL ......... 180
Synchronizing With SMPTE Time Code .............................................. 182
MIDI Sample Dump ............................................................................. 183
MIDI Footswitch Assignement ............................................................. 185
OTHER Mode .................................................................................................. 186
OTHERS Screen ................................................................................. 186
INIT Screen ......................................................................................... 186
VER. Screen ........................................................................................ 187
Appendix ................................................................................................................... 188
Notes on Using SCSI Drives ........................................................................... 189
Connecting an External SCSI Drive .................................................... 189
SCSI Cables ........................................................................................ 189
SCSI ID ............................................................................................... 190
Termination ......................................................................................... 190
Cable Length ....................................................................................... 190
Installing the Options—To Service Technicians .............................................. 191
Location of MPC2000XL Option Boards ................................. 191
Installing Memory Expansion .............................................................. 192
Technical Specifications .................................................................................. 193
The MIDI Implementation Charts ..................................................................... 195
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