Pad Section - Akai MPC User Manual

The upper half of the window contains the grid, showing the note events of the current Sequence.
The lower half of the window has various controls that are also available in other modes, like Main Mode.
Please see the Main Mode chapter to learn more about the
Track Section, the Program Channel
The only difference is the Pad Section, which you use to enter note events as you would with a
traditional step sequencer. (This can be done when a Sequence is playing or stopped.) Please see the
following

Pad Section

Pad Section
The pad section lets you quickly create and delete note events as
"steps" by using the pads of your MPC hardware or MPC software.
Tip: Step Sequence Mode is useful for programming drums, emulating
the step recording of drums with drum machines in the 1980s.
In the software, enter or erase note events by doing the following:
1. First, click the Track drop-down menu above the grid or in the
Track section to select a Track.
2. Select the pad whose steps you want create or edit by doing on
the following:
• In the Pad Section, click the Pad field and drag it up or down
to select the pad number.
• Click the pad's row in the grid.
3. 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.
4. 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 on the selected Track, 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.
Strip, or the
part of this chapter to learn how to do this.
Q-Link Section, the
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Sequence Section, the