Akai mpc2000 User Manual

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Chapter 5: Song Mode

When you are creating music data on the MPC2000, there are two
main ways to create music data on the MPC2000.  One way is to cre-
ate a long sequence as a whole piece, the other way is to create short
sequences for each part of the piece and play them sequentially  using
the Song feature.

The Song function sequentially plays the data of a sequence.  You can
set the order or number of times to play the sequence.  This is used to
play multiple pieces consecutively, or to complete a song by arranging
the sequence data for each part.  The following are the advantages to
align the sequence data created for each part and complete a music
piece:

• The song structure can be created very quickly.
• The content of the sections of the song can be changed very quickly.

A song in the MPC2000 consists of up to 250 steps, each of which
contains the number of the sequence that will play at the step and the
number of times the step will repeat before going on to the next step in
the song.

The MPC2000 can hold up to 20 songs in memory at one time. Record-
ing is not permitted in Song mode. Rather, the individual sequences
must be recorded or edited while in the MAIN screen.