Akai MPC User's Guide download pdf (Page 33)

In the top-left corner of the grid are two buttons to switch between Draw Mode and Select Mode:

• By default, Draw Mode is active, indicated by the Pencil Tool icon. You can draw notes

by clicking the corresponding position in the grid. You can also use it to draw automation

curves in the velocity/automation lane underneath the grid.

• The Select Mode is indicated by the Select Box icon and lets you select one or more

notes by drawing a frame around them. Selected notes will have a white border.

Learn more about these modes under Pencil and Select Box Icons in the Adjusting the Controls part

of this chapter.

Duplicate note events by selecting them on the grid and then pressing Control + D (Windows) or

Command + D (Mac OS X). The selected note events will be automatically copied and pasted, starting

from the step just after the last selected note event.

When Hitting Pads Select Events is selected, you can hit a pad on your MPC hardware to

select all events on that pad in the currently shown Sequence.

Click Undo (the red arrow) to undo your last action.

Click Redo (the green arrow) to redo the last action you undid.

In the upper-right corner of the grid in Main

Mode, there are some menus and parameters

you can adjust:

• Click and drag the Total Bars field up or down to change the selected Sequence's length. The

default setting is 2 bars. The maximum length is 999 bars.

• Click the Time Correct drop-down menu to select the note value to quantize to. Default is 1/16 (16th

notes).

• Click and drag the Swing field up or down to set the amount of swing (from 50% to 75%) so you can

"shuffle" your beats—from subtle to extreme.

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Akai MPC User's Guide Page 33