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Introduction 14

Basic Concepts and Terminology

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the following terms and concepts since you’ll encounter them

throughout this manual.

 Sequence

A sequence is the most basic 'building block' of music you can

compose on the MPC. MIDI information from the MPC’s pads,

buttons, and Q-LINK controls (or an external keyboard) are recorded

to tracks within a sequence. Each sequence has 64 tracks and the

MPC5000 can hold up to 99 separate sequences at one time.

The length of a sequence can be set from 1 to 999 bars and you can theoretically create an entire song using only one

sequence. However, the MPC has a special SONG mode that lets you arrange several short sequences together to

create a song. This allows you to create a sequence for each section of your song and to arrange and rearrange these

sections however you’d like.

For example: by creating a separate sequence for the verse, chorus, and hook of a song, you can use Song mode to

quickly arrange the verse, chorus, and hook in any order you’d like. This saves you from having to repeat the same

section (such as the chorus) many times throughout the song. More importantly, SONG mode makes editing and re-

arranging your song easy since you can simply change the order of sequences (or number of repetitions for each

sequence) instead of re-recording the entire song.

Song mode is also where you can record audio tracks directly to the Hard Disk. This will be discussed further later on.

 Tracks

The MPC 5000 has two types of tracks - sequence tracks and Hard Disk recording

tracks. Sequence tracks are found within sequences. A sequence has 64 tracks

and each track can record a performance. For example, you can record the

verses for a song on track one while recording the choruses on track two.

Alternatively, you can record different instruments on each track.

Note that your performances are recorded as MIDI events and the actual digital audio is not recorded onto a track.

Because of this, you can edit your performance many different ways once the performance has been captured. See the

section below entitled 'Note number, velocity, and length' below for more on this.

Hard Disk recording tracks are recorded in song mode. Using Hard Disk recording, you can record a live performance,

such as vocals or guitar, and have these tracks play back with your song. The MPC5000 can have up to eight Hard Disk

tracks. Two can be recorded simultaneously.

 Song

As we stated above under the 'Sequence' description, the MPC has a special

SONG mode that allows you to arrange different sequences together to form a

song. Each time a new sequence is added to a song, we say a new 'step' is

created within the song. You can use song mode to arrange different sections

(verse, chorus, hook, etc.) of a song together.

Songs are created and arranged in the MPC5000’s SONG mode. Each song can have up to 250 steps and the MPC5000

can hold 20 songs at one time. See 'SONG Mode' on page 61 for more information about this mode.

Song mode is also where you can record audio tracks directly to the Hard Disk. This will be discussed further later on.

See HD RECORD on page 67 for more information.

 Sample

When you tap the pads on the MPC5000, you trigger various different sounds that we call 'samples.' Samples are

digitized snippets of audio that can be recorded using the [RECORD IN], [PHONO IN] or [DIGITAL IN] on the rear of the

MPC, loaded from a memory card, CD-ROM, internal Hard Disk, or transferred from a computer (via the USB port).

Once a sample is loaded or recorded into the MPC5000, it can be manipulated in different ways. For example, a sample

can be trimmed down in length, looped, pitch-shifted or processed using one of the various effects found within the

MPC. When you are finished editing your sample, you can assign it to one or more drum pads so that you can play the

sample with those pads.

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