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Turning the MPC60 on

1. Of the disks which are included with the MPC60, find the disk

"STUDIO SET and SYSTEM ALL" and place it into the disk drive. This

disk contains a general purpose set of drum sounds and a collection of

demonstration sequences.

Note: Every time you turn the MPC60's power on, you must re-load the

drum sounds (and sequences if desired) from disk. This is because ALL

SOUND AND SEQUENCE MEMORY IS LOST WHEN YOU TURN

THE POWER OFF. While it is true that most drum machines hold their

memory when power is removed, these are devices with very low memory

capacity. There are no samplers and no high capacity sequencers which

retain memory when power is removed for one reason: the cost of

low-power memory, which can be kept active by a battery, is much more

expensive than the type of memory commonly used. We at Akai believe the

customer would prefer to pay a substantially lower price for the minor

inconvenience of saving his work to disk before powering down. For this

reason, whenever you do any sampling or editing of sounds, or recording or

editing of sequences, you must always save the changes to disk, or the

changes will be lost!

2. Turn the power ON and wait for about 1 1/2 minutes for the MPC60 to

load the sounds and sequences into memory. While loading, the screen will

display the following message:

Note: If the version number is a lower number than 2.00, your MPC60 is

running an older software version. If so, you should update your MPC60

to version 2.00. To update your MPC60, contact your dealer or service

center and say "I want to have the latest software update installed in my

MPC60".

When finished loading (after about one minute), the following screen

should a

ear:

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