User Guide

Using zones

Wave ﬁeld: Selects the LFO waveform from TRIANGLE (triangle wave), SINE (sine wave), SQUARE

(square wave), SAW UP (upward sawtooth wave), SAW DOWN (downward sawtooth wave), and RAN-

DOM (random change).

Depth ﬁeld: Speciﬁes the LFO output level.

Rate ﬁeld: Speciﬁes the LFO frequency.

Delay ﬁeld: Speciﬁes the time from when you press a key until the LFO is applied.

Phase ﬁeld: Adjusts the location at which the LFO cycle will begin. The vertical dotted line will move

according to this setting.

Shift ﬁeld: Offsets the LFO level upward or downward. The horizontal line will move according to this

setting.

Sync ﬁeld: Speciﬁes whether the LFOs of each voice in the same program will be synchronized with

each other.

MIDI sync ﬁeld: Speciﬁes whether the LFO frequency will be synchronized to MIDI clock messages

received from an external device.

Beat ﬁeld: Speciﬁes the LFO cycle when MIDI sync is ON.

Re-trigger ﬁeld: Speciﬁes whether the waveform will re-start from the beginning at each note-on.

13. When you have finished editing the LFO1 parameters, press the [WINDOW] key with the cursor

located in the LFO1 block.

The Program Modulation popup window will appear.

14. Move the cursor to an empty Source field, and select LFO1 as the modulation source.

15. Move the cursor to the Destination field located at the right, and select PITCH as the modulation

destination.

16. Move the cursor to the, and specify the depth of modulation.

17. Press the [WINDOW] key to return to the Edit 2 page.

Now LFO1 will apply vibrato to the sample. If necessary, re-adjust the parameters of the LFO1 block while

you play the sound.

Using zones

In the preceding pages, we created a program by assigning a sample only to zone 1 of a key group/note num-

ber. However, the programs of the MPC4000 actually allow you to use four zones for each key group/note

number.

This section explains how you can assign a sample to zone 2 of each key group/note number, and use veloc-

ity to switch between zones 1 and 2.

1. Record the samples that you want to assign to zone 2. (You can either record new samples into

memory, or load them from a storage device.)

For details on how to record or load samples, refer to chapter 8.

2. In the Key Group Mix page, Pitch page, or Edit 1/2 page, press the [F6] key (ZONE).

The Zone page will appear. In this page you can assign samples to zones 1–4 and edit parameters for each

zone.

Note: In order to use LFO1, you must set the modulation source, modulation destination, and modulation depth

in the Program Modulation popup window. Be aware that simply editing the settings of the LFO1 block param-

eters will not produce an effect.

Note: The Depth ﬁeld of the LFO1 block corresponds to the LFO1 output level, and the Depth ﬁeld of the Program

Modulation popup window corresponds to the sensitivity of the modulation destination. This means that if the

Depth ﬁeld is set to zero for either of these, LFO1 will not produce any effect.