Top Panel ................................................................................................................................................... 14

Rear Panel .................................................................................................................................................. 15

Getting Ready........................................................................................16

Making Connections ................................................................................................................................ 16

Turning On/Off the Power..................................................................................................................... 16

An Overview of the MC-909..................................................................17

Basic structure of the MC-909................................................................................................................. 17

The sound generator section ....................................................................................................... 17

The sequencer section................................................................................................................... 17

The controller section ................................................................................................................... 18

The sampler section ...................................................................................................................... 18

Adjusting the display contrast................................................................................................................ 18

Editing a value .......................................................................................................................................... 18

Quickly changing a value ............................................................................................................ 18

Saving your data....................................................................................................................................... 18

Regarding the locations where samples are stored ............................................................................. 19

Restoring the factory settings (Factory Reset)...................................................................................... 20

Pattern Mode ............................... 21

How Things Work (in Pattern mode) ...................................................22

Playing a pattern ...................................................................................24

Basics of pattern play ............................................................................................................................... 24

Basic playback operation ............................................................................................................. 24

Selecting a pattern to play back .................................................................................................. 24

Changing the BPM (Tempo)........................................................................................................ 25

Turning the metronome (click) on/off....................................................................................... 25

Muting (silencing) a part.............................................................................................................. 26

Velocity pads............................................................................................................................................. 27

Pattern Call..................................................................................................................................... 27

RPS .................................................................................................................................................. 28

Arpeggiator .................................................................................................................................... 30

Chord Memory .............................................................................................................................. 32

Realtime Modify section.......................................................................................................................... 33

Selecting the part whose sound you want to modify .............................................................. 33

Part Mixer .................................................................................................................................................. 33

Mix In ......................................................................................................................................................... 34

Directly outputting the sound of an external device ............................................................... 34

Playing various pitches using the sound of an external device ............................................. 34

Selecting the input source device................................................................................................ 34

D Beam Controller.................................................................................................................................... 35

SOLO SYNTH ................................................................................................................................ 35

CUT + RESO (Cutoff + Resonance) ............................................................................................ 35

TURNTABLE ................................................................................................................................. 35

ASSIGNABLE (Other applications)............................................................................................ 35