User Guide

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Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................... 1
Features .............................................................................................................. 2
Panel Descriptions ............................................................................................. 4
Front Panel ............................................................................................ 4
Rear Panel .............................................................................................. 7
Handling Floppy Disks ...................................................................................... 8
The Disk Drive ....................................................................................... 8
Taking care of your Disks ...................................................................... 9
Chapter 2: The Basics ............................................................................................... 11
Hooking Up Your System ................................................................................ 12
The Terms Used in MPC2000 ......................................................................... 13
Sequence................................................................................... 13
Track ........................................................................................ 13
Song .......................................................................................... 14
Sound ........................................................................................ 14
Drum Pads ............................................................................... 14
Note Number............................................................................ 14
Program .................................................................................... 15
Operating the Front Panel and Screen ........................................................... 16
The Cursor, Cursor Keys, Data Fields ................................... 16
The Numeric Keypad and DATA Wheel................................. 16
The Function Keys ................................................................... 17
Basic Functions ................................................................................................ 18
Loading the Operating System ........................................................... 18
Loading and Playing Programs ........................................................... 18
Playing the Drum Pads, the PAD BANK, & FULL LEVEL Keys .... 19
Selecting Programs .............................................................................. 20
The NOTE VARIATION Slider, ASSIGN and AFTER keys ............. 20
The ASSIGN Key ..................................................................... 21
The AFTER key ....................................................................... 22
The 16 LEVELS key ............................................................................ 23
Chapter 3: Recording Sequences............................................................................. 25
How Sequences are Organized ........................................................................ 26
Bar.Beat.Tick ........................................................................... 27
Examples of Sequence Recordings .................................................................. 28
Example 1: Recording a Drum Pad Performance .................. 28
Example 2: Recording a Loop .................................................. 30
Example 3: Multi-track Recording.......................................... 32
The MAIN SCREEN ........................................................................................ 34
Selecting a Sequence ........................................................................... 34
Next sequence function ........................................................... 34
Renaming a Sequence ............................................................. 35
Deleting a Sequence ................................................................ 35
Copying a Sequence ................................................................. 36