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• The ALSO PLAYS field:

This is a choice field and any of the 32 drums may be selected

here, or "NONE" may be selected. Whatever drum is selected

here will automatically play whenever the drum in the DRUM field

is played. Normally this field is set to NONE, which defeats the

double play feature.

• The VELSW (velocity switch) and IF OVER fields:

VELSW is a choice field with two options: ON and OFF. If set

to OFF, the drum in the ALSO PLAYS field will always

play

when the drum in the DRUM field is played. If set to ON, either

the drum's assigned sound of the drum in the ALSO PLAYS field

will play, depending on the incoming velocity- if it is less than or

equal to the value in the IF OVER field, only the drum's normally

assigned sound plays; if it is greater than the value in the IF

OVER field, only the drum in the ALSO PLAYS field will play.

Here are a few examples of how to use Double Play mode:

1. Making a snare drum sound fuller: Assign the snare to also play

a tom. This will give the snare a deeper sound which could

not be achieved with a single snare drum. Another idea is to

load two snares into memory and assign one of them to

automatically play both of them.

2. Stereo sample playback: DOUBLE PLAY can also be used as a

very rudimentary way to play back samples in stereo. For

example, here is how you would play a stereo snare drum

sample:

A) Sample the left side of a stereo snare drum

recording into SNAREI and pan it left.

B) Sample the right side of the same recording into

SNARE2 and pan it right.

C) Using Double play, assign the SNAREI to

automatically play the SNARE2. Now whenever

SNAREI plays, both sounds will play simultaneously

in stereo.

D) It may be necessary to trim the attack of one of the

samples to synchronize the two sides.

3. Adding a "chorusing" effect to drums: Chorusing can be a very

useful effect on ride and crash cymbals. For example, here is

how to add chorusing to a ride cymbal:

A) Load a ride cymbal sound from disk into RIDE1.

B) Load the same ride cymbal sound from disk into

RIDE2. The MPC60 will automatically recognize that

the sound already exists in memory and

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