Akai MPC X User Manual page 169

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:
• Use the Slice field.
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Turn Q-Link Knob 16 (Select Slice on MPC X) or the first Q-Link knob in the fourth column (MPC Live,
MPC Touch).
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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 screen. 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.
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