Creating A Song; Exporting The Song - Akai MPC User Manual

Creating a Song

This section explains how to make a Song out of your
Sequences. Before starting, make sure that you have recorded
some Sequences (which we described earlier in this chapter)!
Click the Song tab to open Song Mode. Each of the Sequences
you've created in this Project is assigned to a pad.
Click and drag a pad with the desired Sequence onto the
Sequence Playlist to the left of the pads. Alternatively, if you
prefer viewing a horizontal timeline, you can click and drag it
onto the workspace above the pads.
As a Song plays, it moves through the each Step, which has a Sequence you assigned. Each Sequence
may (or may not) be repeated, determined by the value in the Repeats (Rpts) column (a Rpt value of 1
means the Sequence will play through only once).
Each step can be set to play its Sequence at an independent tempo, determined by the value in the
BPM column. The Bars column indicates the length of the Sequence for that step.
Click any drop-down menu in the Sequence column to select a new Sequence for that step. Click and
drag up or down on a Rpts value to change it.

Exporting the Song

Want to share your new Song with your friends? All you need to do is export it.
While in Song Mode, click the File menu, select Export, and select As Audio Mixdown.
In the Audio Mixdown window, select your mixdown settings.
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Set the Start field to 1, and set the End field to the last bar of your Song.
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As the Song will likely be uploaded to the Internet, select the mp3 file format option.
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Choose a save location.
Click Export to start exporting the Song.
To learn more about the Audio Mixdown options, please see
File Menu.
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