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Song mode

C Sequence ﬁeld

Selects the sequence that will play at that step. The step that displays (end of song) indi-

cates the end of the song.

D Bars ﬁeld

Indicates the number of measures in the sequence selected for that step. If you move the

cursor to this ﬁeld and press the [WINDOW] key, the Copy and Replace popup window

will appear.

E Repeats ﬁeld

Speciﬁes the number of times that the step will be repeated. If you set this to HOLD, that

step will play back repeatedly until you press the [F6] key (NEXT). In this case, the Start

bar ﬁeld of the subsequent steps will change to “–”.

Creating a song

Here’s how to arrange sequences within the memory of the MPC4000 to create a new

song.

1. Create or load sequences so that memory contains the sequences you want to

use in your new song.

2. Access the Song page.

3. Move the cursor to the Song ﬁeld, and turn the [JOG] dial to select an empty

song number.

4. Move the cursor to “(end of song)” in the Sequence ﬁeld, and turn the [JOG]

dial to select the sequence that you want to play in step 1.

When you select a sequence, the “(end of song)” indication will move to the next step.

5. If you want the sequence selected in step 4 to play more than once, move the

cursor to the Repeats ﬁeld of step 1 and use the [JOG] dial to specify the

number of repeats.

6. Move the cursor to the Sequence ﬁeld for step 2, and turn the [JOG] dial to

select the next sequence.

The Start bar ﬁeld will indicate the starting location of step 2 (the number of measures

from the beginning of the song).

7. As described in steps 4–6, specify the desired sequences for the song.

8. If you want to edit your settings, move the cursor to the desired field of that

step, and use the [JOG] dial to edit the setting.

9. If necessary, move the cursor to the SEQ/MAS ﬁeld and turn the [JOG] dial to

select the tempo source.

10. If you specified MAS as the tempo source, move the cursor to the tempo ﬁeld,

and turn the [JOG] dial to specify the tempo for the song.

11. To play the song, press the [PLAY] key.

To stop the song, press the [STOP] key.

Editing a song

Here’s how to copy/paste steps within a song, or to insert/delete steps.

1. Move the cursor to the Song ﬁeld and turn the [JOG] dial to select the song that

you want to edit.

2. Move the cursor to the step that you want to edit.

Hint: In the song page, you can use the STEP [

]/[

] keys or BAR [

]/[

] keys perform

locate operations.

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