Akai MPC Essentials, User Manual, Page: 101 / 148

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Pad Section
This section lets you quickly create and delete note events as
"steps" by using the pads of your MPC hardware or MPC
software.
Tip: Using Step Sequence Mode is most useful for
programming drums, emulating the step recording of drums as
it was done with various drum machines from the 1980s.
In the software, create or delete steps by doing the following:
1. Select the pad whose steps you want create or edit by
doing on the following:
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In the Pad Section, click the Pad field and drag it up
or down to select the pad number.
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Click the pad's row in the grid.
2. Click the Previous or Next buttons to select the bar
whose steps you want to edit. You can also click the
Current Bar field and enter the number using your
computer keyboard.
3. Each pad represents a step in the bar. Keep in mind that the number of steps depends on the Time
Correct setting, which you can set in the Sequence Section. For time divisions larger than 16 (e.g.,
32 ), the bar's steps will be represented by multiple pad banks. Use the Pad Bank Buttons A and B to
view all the steps within a bar.
If the pad already has note events in that Sequence, the corresponding pads (steps) will be lit with
colors corresponding to their velocities.
Click an unlit pad to enter a note event at that step. The pad will light up with a color corresponding
to its velocity.
Click a lit pad to delete the note event from that step. The pad will be unlit.