Akai MPC500 User Manual - Page 3

1 QUICKSTART MANUAL (ENGLISH) TABLE OF CONTENTS Basic Information...2 „ Cursor, Cursor buttons ...2 „ Field, DATA wheel...2 „ [SEQUENCE] button...2 „ [TRACK] button ...2 „ [PARAMS] button ...2 „ MODE button...2 Tutorial of the MPC500 ...2 Playing Back a Demo Song...3 Playing a Preset Program...3 Recording a Performance with the Pads 4 Playing Back Several Sequences in a Series 4 „ Selecting the sequences in real time ...4 „ Playing back the sequences in the selected order ...5 Recording a Sound ...5 „ Preparing the recording...5 „ Starting the recording...6 „ Assigning the recorded sound to the pad...6 Loop Playback of the Phrase Sample 7 „ Adjusting the start/end points of the sample ...7 „ Recording to a sequence ...7 „ Setting the same number of the bars for the sample and the sequence 8 Saving the Data ...9 Turning Off the Autoload Function ...9 Other Useful Functions ...9 „ Q-Link slider ...9