Akai MPC User Manual page 79

In the top-left corner of the grid are two buttons to switch between Draw Mode and Select Mode:
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By default, Draw Mode is active, indicated by the Pencil Tool icon. You can draw notes
by clicking the corresponding position in the grid. You can also use it to draw automation
curves in the velocity/automation lane underneath the grid.
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The Select Mode is indicated by the Select Box icon and lets you select one or more
notes by drawing a frame around them. Selected notes will have a white border.
Learn more about these modes under
of this chapter.
Duplicate note events by selecting them on the grid and then pressing Ctrl+D (Windows) or
+D (Mac OS X). The selected note events will be automatically copied and pasted, starting from the
step just after the last selected note event.
When Hitting Pads Select Events is selected, you can press a pad on your MPC hardware to
select all events on that pad in the currently shown Sequence.
Click Show/Hide List to switch between the Grid View and List View. See the following
View section for an explanation of this view.
Click Undo (the red arrow) to undo your last action.
Click Redo (the green arrow) to redo the last action you undid.
Pencil and Select Box Icons
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in the Adjusting the Controls part
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