Akai MPC 3000 Operator's Manual page 60

Type
2. Set the field to
play the internal drum sounds.
Chn
3. Set the field to 1A, indicating that track 3 will play through
MIDI channel 1 and MIDI output port A. The
ally two fields—move the cursor to the position indicated by the
underline below and select 1:
Chn:OFF becomes—>
4. If you play the MIDI keyboard now, the synthesizer that is set to
receive on MIDI channel 1 should play a bass sound. If not, check
the previous steps and your MIDI hookup.
5. Press the COUNT IN key—the light will go on. This will cause
the metronome to play one bar before the sequence plays to cue
you to start playing. By default, the count in will only play before
you start recording or overdubbing but not before playing. This
can be changed by pressing the OTHER key and changing the
setting of the Count in
6. Enter RECORD MODE by holding RECORD and pressing PLAY
START.
7. Once the COUNT IN bar has passed, record your bass part in
time to the drums and percussion parts.
8. Press the COUNT IN key again to turn it off.
9. If you make a mistake while recording, you can correct it by
punching in the new note:
A) Press the REWIND keys [<] or [<<] until the
shows a location about one bar before the mistake.
B) Press PLAY (not PLAY START). The sequence will start
playing from the position shown in the
C) Just before the wrong note plays, press RECORD and
PLAY simultaneously to enter Record mode (in which
existing notes are erased while new notes are recorded)
then play the correct note. You can now either punch out
by pressing RECORD again or continue recording from
that point. Don't worry: when the sequence loops back to
bar 1, it will automatically switch from Record to Over-
dub mode so that those notes in the earlier part of the
sequence won't be erased.
Now, overdub the piano part on track 4:
1. Move the cursor to the
active.
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Chapter 3: Recording Sequences
MIDI
, indicating that this track will not
Chn: 1A
field in the screen that appears.
Trk
field and select 4 to make track 4
Chn field is actu-
Now
field
Now
field.