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Screen Brightness: This determines the brightness of the screen during normal operation: normal brightness
(Day) or dimmed (Night).
Power On Screen (MPC Live, MPC Live II only): This determines if/when a special screen will appear when you
power on your MPC Live. On this screen, you must tap and hold a button for a moment to begin using MPC Live
or it will automatically power off. This feature prevents it from powering on accidentally and wasting battery life.
You can set it to the following options:
Never: The screen will never appear.
When On Battery: The screen will appear only if you power on MPC Live while using battery power.
Always: The screen will always appear.
Tap Tempo: This determines how many times you have to press the Tap button before the new tempo is
recognized.
Flash Tap Tempo Light: When enabled, the Tap button’s light will flash in time with the tempo. When disabled,
the Tap button’s light will be off.
Bank Button Press: This determines how the Pad Bank buttons work.
Select A-D: Pressing a Pad Bank button once will select the corresponding bank from Pad Banks A–D.
Pressing and holding Shift while pressing a Pad Bank button will select the corresponding bank from Pad
Banks E–H.
Select/toggle bank: Pressing a Pad Bank button will alternate between the corresponding bank from Pad
Bank A–D and Pad Bank E–H. In other words, you do not need to hold Shift to select one of Pad Banks E–H.
Shift + Q-Link Press: This setting determines whether pressing Shift and the Q-Link button opens Q-Link Edit or
Cycles Backwards between the Q-Link columns.
Global Pitch Bend: Enable this option to override the pitch bend settings of all programs, so that those with pitch
bend disabled or set to different ranges will only use the Global Range instead. When disabled, all programs may
use their individual pitch bend settings.
Range Down / Range Up: Use these fields to determine the range of pitch bend in semitones.
VU Meter Source (MPC X only): This determines what audio signal level is shown in the level meters (on the right side
of the screen). When set to Main, the level meters show the audio signal sent out of Outputs 1/2 (the Main L/R
outputs on the rear panel). When set to Current Program, the level meters show the audio signal of the currently
selected program (i.e., the program used by the currently selected track and any other tracks that also use it).
Date (not available for MPC Studio and MPC Touch): This is the current date, formatted as Month / Day / Year.
When saving files on MPC in Standalone Mode, the file will include the current date in its metadata. If you use
MPC in Controller Mode, this setting will be overwritten with the current date of the host computer.
Time (not available for MPC Studio and MPC Touch): This is the current time, formatted as Hour : Minute. When
saving files on MPC in Standalone Mode, the file will include the current time in its metadata. If you use MPC in
Controller Mode, this setting will be overwritten with the current time of the host computer.
Time Zone (not available for MPC Studio and MPC Touch): This is the current time zone, formatted as Continent
/ City, which you can change here.
Sequencer
The settings on this screen determine how sequencing works in the Grid View and in the Step Sequencer.
Instant Track Mute: When disabled, if you mute a track, its Note On messages will be ignored, and samples and
notes that are playing will finish playing their entire length (this is how legacy MPCs’ track-muting worked). This is
useful if you are using loops and want a loop to play to the end of a bar but not play the next time the sequence
loops. When enabled, if you mute a track, the MIDI track volume (0) will be sent. The loop will continue to play
but at zero volume, allowing the loop to continue playing when the track is unmuted. This is useful when you
want to have the track muted immediately.
Play Track Mute and Solo Events: When enabled, track mute and solo events are played back when you are in
Track Mute Mode. When disabled, track mute and solo events will not be played back while in Track Mute Mode.
Rec Arm: This determines the behavior of the Record Arm buttons. When set to Single, selecting a different
track will automatically arm that track and disarm all other tracks. This is the default mode and is the same as
previous MPC releases. When set to Multi, you can tap any track's record button to add it to the group of armed
tracks. See Addenda > Updates in MPC 2.8 > New Features > Single or Multi Record Arm to learn more.
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