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Chapter 5: Song mode

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Overview

One way to create a song in the MPC60 is to record all of the parts in

one long sequence, either playing the entire song manually or using the

copy functions to duplicate repeating sections. Another way is use Song

mode. In Song mode, several sequences are entered into a list, with

each sequence being a different section of the whole song. Once the

entire list is entered, Song mode automatically plays the list of

sequences in the order they were entered. This is especially useful in

creating arrangements that have many repeating sections, such as drum

parts. Song mode has the following advantages over using a long

sequence to record a song:

• The song structure can be created very quickly.

• The content of the sections of the song can be changed very quickly.

A song in the MPC60 consists of up to 250 steps, each of which

contains the number of the sequence that will play at the step and the

number of times the step will repeat before going on to the next step in

the song. After the last step, the song can either stop playing or loop

back to an earlier step. The MPC60 can hold up to 20 songs in memory

at one time. Recording is not permitted in Song mode. Rather, the

individual sequences must be recorded or edited while in Play/Record

mode.

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