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Chapter 2: The Basics

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Loading and Playing Sounds and Programs

All sounds and programs are held in RAM memory and are there-

fore lost whenever the power is turned off. In order to play any

sounds after turning the power on, you must load them in from disk.

The procedure for loading files from disk is described in the “Saving

To and Loading From Disk” chapter of this manual, but to get you

started quickly, you’ll learn how to load a disk automatically when

the power is turned on. Follow these steps:

1. Of the 4 sound disks that are included with the MPC3000, select

one and place it in the disk drive. Each disk contains a variety of

drum sounds and programs.

2. Turn the power on and wait for the MPC3000 to load the sounds

and sequences into memory. While loading, the LCD screen will

display the following message:

============= Akai MPC3000 =============

AKAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

Version 3.00

========================================

Loading files...

When the disk has finished loading, the Play/Record screen (the

Main Screen) will be displayed. All sounds and programs from the

disk are now loaded into the MPC3000’s memory.

Playing the Pads, the PAD BANK, & FULL LEVEL Keys

Each sampled recording in the MPC3000 is called a sound. To hear

some of the drum sounds you have just loaded, play the 16 dynamic

pads on the front panel. To hear other sounds, press the PAD

BANK key once so that the [B] light above the key is lit, then play

the pads again. The MPC3000 has four pad banks (A, B, C and D).

To hear the sounds assigned to pad bank C, press PAD BANK again

and play the pads, and do the same to hear bank D. Each time you

press the PAD BANK key you change to the next pad bank, and

with each bank the 16 pads play different sounds.

The 64 bank/pad combinations are named by combining the bank

letter (A-D) with the pad number:

1 2 ... 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 ... 275 276

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