Akai mpc2000 User Manual

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Chapter 6: Creating and Editing Programs

When the same note is repeatedly generated, this can be used to set
whether the previous sound is canceled or overlapping.

Select the Voice Overlap: field with the CURSOR key and se-
lect one of the following three modes with the DATA wheel.

POLY

Multiple plays of the sound are assigned to ad-
ditional voices, allowing polyphonic overlap.
This is useful for sounds like ride cymbals, for
which you don’t want new notes to cut off old
ones.

MONO

Multiple plays of the sound use the same voice,
terminating and restarting playback of the
sound (no polyphonic overlap). This is useful
for producing stuttering effects.

NOTE OFF

When the pad is released (or a MIDI Note Off
message is received), the sound is terminated.
When the Dcymd: field is set to END, the
loop on sound is set to this mode.

Voice Overlap: To display the Mute off window, select a field
and press the OPEN WINDOW key.

When either note set in the Note: field on the bottom line is gener-
ated, the lower note is muted when a note displayed on the top line is
generated.  This is convenient when you want to stop the sound of an
open hi-hat with a closed hi-hat.

To turn this function off, select the bottom field and select --/OFF
by rotating the DATA wheel to the left.