Akai MPC 4000 User Manual

Contents
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Contents
MPC4000 Reference Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How to use this reference manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Main mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Main page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Recording/playing a sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
■ Recording a sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
■ Customizing the metronome sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
■ Inserting a tempo change in the middle of a sequence . . . . . . . 13
■ Cutting/inserting/copying measures of a sequence. . . . . . . . . . 14
■ Transposing the entire sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
■ Copying a sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
■ Deleting a sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
■ Copying a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
■ Deleting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
■ Customizing the default settings for a sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
■ Applying timing correction to an already-recorded track. . . . . 21
■ Rewriting the velocity of note events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
■ Rewriting the duration of note events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
■ Transposing a recorded track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
■ Customizing the default settings for each track number. . . . . . 25
■ Changing the track number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
■ Separating a track by MIDI channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
■ Erasing all muted tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
■ Making program change transmission settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
■ Performing auto punch-in/out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
■ Using the Simul Play function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
■ Naming the external devices connected
to the MIDI OUT connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
TR list/Out 1 page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Listing the track output destinations (Out 1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
TR list/Out 2 page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Listing the track output destinations (Out 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
TR list/PARAMS page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Listing the track parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sequence edit mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sequence edit page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the graphic editor to edit a sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
■ Step-recording note events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
■ Deleting MIDI events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
■ Moving MIDI events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
■ Copying/cutting MIDI events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
■ Pasting MIDI events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
■ Simultaneously editing values in a selected region. . . . . . . . . . 47
■ Inserting continuously-variable events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Akai MPC 4000 Specifications

General

Polyphony	64 voices
RAM	272 MB (expandable to 512 MB)
Pads	16 velocity and pressure-sensitive pads
MIDI	2 MIDI inputs, 4 MIDI outputs
Sampling Frequency	44.1 kHz
Display	240x64 backlit LCD
Effects	4 internal effects processors
Storage	Internal Hard Drive
Sequencer	300, 000 notes capacity
Filter	Multi-mode filter (Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Band Boost, Band Reject)