Akai MPCX User Manual page 123

To play a slice, do either of the following:
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Press the pad that corresponds to the slice. If your sample has more than 16 slices, use the additional pad banks.
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When the headphones icon (in the upper-right corner) is selected, tap a slice in the waveform.
When the One Shot feature is enabled, you can press a pad once to play the entire slice. When this is disabled,
pressing the pad and holding it will play the slice; releasing it will stop playback.
To enable or disable One Shot, press and hold Shift, and then tap One Shot.
To select a slice to edit, do any of the following:
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Use the Slice field.
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Turn Q-Link Knob 16 (Select Slice).
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When the headphones icon (in the upper-right corner) is selected, tap a slice in the waveform.
To add a slice at the current playhead position, tap Slice+ at the bottom of the touchscreen. You can do this at
any point during sample playback.
To insert a slice marker during sample playback, press an unlit pad (usually Pad 1) to start playback of the
sample, and then press an unlit pad during playback to place a slice marker at each location of the playhead. (If you
press a lit pad, playback will restart from that pad's corresponding slice marker.) The number of the pad that is lit
green is the number of the most-recently inserted slice marker. The numbers of the pads that are lit yellow are the
numbers of the slice markers that are already inserted.
To split or combine slices, tap the glue-and-scissors icon. In the
Split/Combine Region screen that appears, tap one of the following buttons:
Split: This splits the currently selected region into two equal slices.
Combine: This combines the currently selected region with the one
before it.
Back: This closes the window.
When Link Slices is enabled, changing the start point of a slice will also
change the end point of the previous slice. Similarly, changing the end
point of a slice will also change the start point of the next slice. Disable
Link Slices if you are trying to create slices that use non-contiguous
parts of the sample.
To enable or disable this feature, tap the Link Slices button.
Important: Link Slices must be disabled to make slices nonsequential,
noncontiguous, or overlapping.
To remove all slices from a sample, press and hold Shift and tap Clear All.
The cue playhead is useful when manually inserting slice markers. You can set its position and behavior to suit your
workflow.
Use the Cue field to adjust the position of the cue playhead. Alternatively, tap and drag the translucent marker with
the triangle ().
To play the sample from the cue playhead, tap Play Cue at the bottom of the touchscreen.
To create a slice marker at the cue playhead position, tap Slice+ at the bottom of the touchscreen.
To set how the cue playhead behaves, use the Settings window (described earlier).
0 Snap forces start points and end points to occur only at the waveform's "zero-crossings." This can help to avoid
clicks and glitches when playing a sample.
To enable or disable 0 Snap, press and hold Shift, and then tap 0 Snap at the bottom of the touchscreen.
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