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Pad Section

This section lets you quickly create and delete note events as "steps"

by using the pads of your MPC hardware or MPC software.

Tip: Using Step Sequence Mode is most useful for programming

drums, emulating the step recording of drums as it was done with

various drum machines from the 1980s.

In the software, create or delete steps by doing the following:

1. First, click the Track drop-down menu above the grid or in the

Track section to select a Track.

2. Select the pad whose steps you want create or edit by doing on

the following:

• In the Pad Section, click the Pad field and drag it up or

down to select the pad number.

• Click the pad's row in the grid.

3. Click the Previous or Next buttons to select the bar whose steps you want to edit. You can also

click the Current Bar field and enter the number using your computer keyboard.

4. Each pad represents a step in the bar. Keep in mind that the number of steps depends on the Time

Correct setting, which you can set in the Sequence Section. For time divisions larger than 16 (e.g.,

32), the bar's steps will be represented by multiple pad banks. Use the Pad Bank Buttons A and B to

view all the steps within a bar.

If the pad already has note events on the selected Track, the corresponding pads (steps) will be lit

with colors corresponding to their velocities.

Click an unlit pad to enter a note event at that step. The pad will light up with a color corresponding

to its velocity.

Click a lit pad to delete the note event from that step. The pad will be unlit.

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