Akai MPCX User Manual page 94

The left edge contains icons to quickly enter one of five modes. Using this strip of icons, you can easily
jump between them:
To enter Main Mode, tap the house icon.
To enter Grid View, tap the grid icon. The MIDI tab in the lower-left corner of the touchscreen in Main
Mode must be selected for this icon to be shown.
To enter the Track View, tap the bars-and-magnifying-glass icon.
To enter the Step Sequencer, tap the vertical-bars icon.
To enter XYFX Mode, tap the XY icon.
Regardless of which tool is selected, you can do any of the following to move, lengthen, shorten, or transpose any
selected note/notes.
To automatically set the grid to view one pad bank and two bars, tap the grid-and-magnifying-glass icon in
the lower-left corner.
To undo your last action, press Undo.
To redo the last action you undid, press Shift+Undo/Redo.
To select all notes for a pad, press the desired pad.
To move the selected notes, tap Nudge at the bottom of the touchscreen, and then use the data dial or –/+
buttons to shift the notes left or right. By default, you can position notes only by quantization values defined by
the Time Correct value (learn about this feature
To move the selected notes without restricting ("snapping") them to the quantization grid, tap and hold
Don't Snap in the lower-left corner of the touchscreen, and then use the data dial or –/+ buttons to shift the
notes. In this case, each nudge is equivalent to four ticks.
To adjust the start point or end point of the selected notes (without changing their position), tap Edit Start at
the bottom of the touchscreen, and then use the data dial or –/+ buttons.
To transpose the selected notes up or down, tap Transpose at the bottom of the touchscreen, and then use
the data dial or –/+ buttons.
To switch to the previous or next track, press and hold Shift, and then tap Track – or Track + (respectively) at
the bottom of the touchscreen.
To mute or solo the track, press and hold Shift, and then tap Mute or Solo (respectively) at the bottom of the
touchscreen.
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