Akai MPC Touch User Manual

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Recording a Bass Track
Let’s try recording a bass line. Unlike a drum kit, it’s important to be able to play and record a bass
sound chromatically, so this will be slightly different than setting up the drum kit.
Adding a bass line over the drum part means we need to work on a new track. A track is simply a layer
of a sequence. You can work with multiple tracks in a single sequence (e.g., a drum track, a bass track,
a piano track, etc.). when you play the sequence, all of them will play simultaneously.
First, we’ll select a new track.
To select a new track:
1. Press Main to go back to Main Mode.
2. Double-tap the Track field in the center-left part of the touchscreen, and then tap Track 2 (unused)
in the list of tracks that appears.
Alternatively, simply tap the Track + button at the bottom of the touchscreen until (unused) appears
in the Track field.
Selecting a new track in Main Mode.

Akai MPC Touch Specifications

General

Display type	LED
Built-in display	Yes
Product color	Black
USB direct playback	-
Built-in optical drive	No
Audio (L/R) in	2
Minimum RAM	4 GB
Minimum processor	Dual Core
Minimum processor speed	2.5 GHz
Minimum storage drive space	2048 MB
Mac operating systems supported	Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Windows operating systems supported	Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Education x64, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Enterprise x64, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Home x64, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Pro x64, Windows 8