Tutorial; Starting Up; Creating A Drum Kit - Akai MPC X User Manual

Tutorial

This chapter should familiarize you with some basic MPC features. We'll create a short song to illustrate some of the
most important features. To get the most out of this chapter, we recommend reproducing each of the described steps.

Starting Up

Make sure you have completed all of the steps described in
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Installing the most current drivers and software.
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Connecting your MPC hardware to a power source using the included power adapter (if required) and
powering it on.
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Opening and authorizing your MPC software (if you are using your MPC hardware as a controller).

Creating a Drum Kit

Let's start by making a simple drum kit.
Press Browse (MPC X) or Shift+Menu/Browse (MPC Live, MPC Touch) to show the Browser. Then, use the
touchscreen to navigate to where your drum sounds are located:
To browse your files by location, tap Places on the left side of the screen.
Internal is the internal drive of MPC X or MPC Live.
MPC Documents is a shortcut to the MPC Documents folder on the internal drive of MPC X or MPC Live.
If you have storage devices connected to USB ports or SD card slot of MPC X, MPC Live, or your computer
(with MPC Touch), they will appear in this column, as well.
Important: MPC X and MPC Live support read and write capability for exFAT, FAT32, NTFS, and EXT4 file
systems as well as read-only capability for HFS+ file systems. (We recommend using an exFAT file system as it
is the most robust one supported by both Windows and macOS.)
To browse your files by type, tap Content and then tap the type of file: Drums, Instruments, Clips, Samples,
Demos, or My Files.
To move up one folder level, tap the folder/ icon in the upper-left corner.
To move through a list, swipe up or down, turn the data dial or use the –/+ buttons.
To select a file or folder, tap it once.
To enter a folder, double-tap it or tap Open in the lower-right corner. Alternatively, press the center cursor or
Enter (MPC X) or the data dial (MPC Live, MPC Touch) to enter a selected folder.
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