MPC GLOSSARY of terms

Call me stupid or sumthin' but, the world would be such a better place if AKAI made an MPC GLOSSARY OF TERMS! With full descriptive, applicable definitions of terms used in reference to any and all MPCs. Technically we don't need definitions for words like plug, knob, or switch, but I feel a better defintion of 'parts' than "the way you play programs of the sampler section", is in order .

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yeah I totally agree.. They could explain that way better!

i totally agree too ...

... and let me add this - A FULL PARAMETER LIST IS NEEDED describing all those unmeaningful 0-100, 0-64, etc. values in program mode. i m sorry to repeat this again and again but imo this is essential imormation to get the full use out of the 4k and for gettin a feel whats really goin on when workin with filters, lfo's, adsr, prog modulations, etc ...

for example: prog modulation on the 4k is the shit imo - 64 modulations for each program is fukkin great ... but damn its really next to unimpossible to know whts goin on if i send 10 sources to whatever destination(s) without knowing
1) what the destinations range stands for and
2) how the modulation amount is applied!!!
currently when messin in that prog mod window sometimes i feel like playin with a big and expensive toy ... what does an lfo modulation of the cutoff of +20 defacto mean? damn, if i wanna modulate a sound between 300 and 400 hz i have to know where that is - at least more or less ... therefore cutoff values should be (descirbed in a manual) in hz to khz, adsr values in msecs, lfo the same, all those zone values (wtf is a zone start of +100 really?), program modulation window ... and imo akai should also add whether the parameters are operated linear, logarithmic or whateva (ie: cutoff: 0 = x hz,, 50 = y khz, and 100 = z khz)

the 4k claims to be professional ... well the 7-8 manuals i have of it imo are less than all of its previous models ... and i really don't understand why akai won't give us those values ... i found some of them in older akai samplers and
1) i dunno whether they're applicable on the 4k and
2) if they where important then why can't akai give us those values for the professional 4k?

... who knows maybe the fequency range of the 3k filters is better as the one of the 4k and akai won't us to know about it ...

sorry to sound harsh but this really pisses me off ... the 4k is great but please akai give us some professional info about it too ...

Small basic tips of definitions

A sample is a buliding block of sounds to work with notes or phrases.

A program is an instrument bass, horn, flute or so on along with a drum kit. Any sample can be assign to a program and changed and modified with pitch, filter, and lfos.

A multi is like a band all of the programs can be assembled and played together with various outputs, effects, and panning.

Parts in music each instrument plays a part or piece of the music like the woodwind part, the brass part, the percussion part hence in multi mode each program is assign to a part in order to play on a track.

Tracks are a digital tape recording of midi note of each instrumental performace which unlike analog tape can be transposed (pitch changed) copied, delete, moved, shortened, lengthed and etc.



I`m sure others more experience and knowledgeable than me can add more.

Now why couldn't akai make it so that we laymans can catch the slang.
now how about the terms ALTO spoke of?
He expounded on the point I was gettin' to. I feel as though the jargon is X-TRA technical, and for someone fairly familiar it seems sometimes to be foreign to me.

sounds like there's some good money to be made for someone who wants to write an after market user's guide...package it with a sample CD or whatever...it's the simple ideas to solve the needs.

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